[haiku] Re: Haiku on low memory systems

  • From: "Starsseed" <starsseed@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 19:55:40 +0100

On 11/04/2010 05:29 PM, David Given wrote:
I have a really old Toshiba laptop, a 520CDT. It's got a Pentium 166 and
48MB of RAM, which means that it has rather limited use these days.

I did try to boot Haiku on it, and it just doesn't work: as soon as the
boot loader loads I get a black screen with a blinking cursor in it and
it just hangs. I can't say I'm very surprised...

My question is: can Haiku be made to run on this at all? I know that
technically 128MB is the minimum supported RAM, but can this be shaved
down at all? For example, does such a thing as a command-line Haiku
setup with no GUI exist?

I don't think that your problem comes from the available RAM size. I got
the same issue with 1 or 4 GB RAM ( Pentium4 or Intel®P8500 )

NB : booting from HDD / CD / USD doesn't change anything.

See
http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/4408
http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/5539
http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/5696
http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/5720
http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/3441

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