[openbeos] Re: Support for Ancient Computers?
- From: Marcus Jacob <rossi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:59:47 +0200
fsc scenic ... you should get yourself an scaleo ;-) anyhow, back to the
topic, what is the issue preventing haiku to boot on such systems, just
curious whether a potential upcoming fix will also solve my vitrual pc
troubles (v7.0.2) ...
rossi
>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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