[openbeos] Re: Support for Ancient Computers?
- From: Daniel Wünsch <tombhadAC@xxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:53:58 +0200
On my older fsc scenic xl-1107, i was not able to boot my on BeOS R5
builded Haiku, too. :( I hope this problem will be fixed soon.
Am Samstag, den 14.07.2007, 11:19 -0700 schrieb Urias McCullough:
> On 7/14/07, Gerald Zajac <zajacg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Recently I attempted to run Haiku on two old computers that are about 10
> > years old with 200 and 233 MHz MMX Pentium processors, respectively.
> > The boot process would not start; that is, the Haiku boot screen did
> > not appear, and nothing was written to the syslog via the serial port.
> > BeOS booted and ran okay on both of these computers.
>
> You're experiencing bootloader issues
>
> > I have no opinion as to whether Haiku should support ancient computers
> > such as these; however, I'm curious as to whether this project intends
> > to support computers this old. If not, what are the minimum
> > requirements for a computer?
>
> Haiku is currently i586-targeted, and therefore should technically
> support anything that is Pentium or newer (> 486).
>
> I have successfully booted haiku on several old Pentium machines,
> including a P75 laptop with 40mb memory (only was able to boot to a
> safe mode shell because 64mb memory is required to get to a desktop).
>
> In several cases, I also have experienced bootloader issues when
> building the disk partition with a newer machines - I'm not sure what
> causes this.
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