Live CD (Alpha1) does not boot on Pentium1/i430VX machine

[shaocaholica]

I've got pretty much the min spec machine that will run Haiku but unfortunately the Live CD does not boot. I know the CD is fine because it boots on higher spec machines. The machine in question:

Intel i430VX chipset Pentium 1 MMX - 166mhz 128MB Ram Matrox Millennium 4MB (VESA)

Most linux Live CDs boot fine on this machine as well as Windows install CDs up to XP. This machine is not ACPI compliant but I don't think that should stop anyone.

I'd love to get Haiku working as most Linux distros including the super slim ones are still not responsive enough for desktop use. Windows XP is actually pretty responsive until you start any newer application.

[anevilyak]

Some more details would be helpful here. Does it simply not even start to boot at all, or does it crash? If so, what's the message printed on screen?

[shaocaholica]

Does not even start. The PC simply goes to the next valid bootable media.

[jackburton]

We emulate a 2.8MB floppy, could that be the problem ?

[kallisti5]

If it is the CD 2.8MB emulation, you could try dd'ing the Haiku image to a hard drive and plugging it into the machine.. not ideal but might work for you.

[shaocaholica]

Didn't DD but installed Haiku on another machine, pulled the drive and put it back into the machine that wouldn't boot the CD. However, that machine will not boot from that installation. No errors, just doesn't boot.

[Coldfirex]

Still an issue with a recent build?

[scottmc]

Can you recheck this with a recent Haiku build?

[shaocaholica]

I will try in the next few weeks but its not very high on my priority at the moment. Said machine has been put in storage but I can dig it out for a test.

[scottmc]

For the Alpha3 release notes:

System Requirements

Haiku currently only works on x86 systems. Minimum memory required is 128 MB. If compiling Haiku within itself, 1 GB of memory is recommended. Haiku has been tested to work on CPUs as slow as a Pentium II 400 MHz, and requires as little as 700 MB of drive space.

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Still it would be interesting to see if the alpha3 behaves any differently on low-end hardware. Closing this ticket as invlaid, but feel free to report results of trying to run alpha3 on that old PC.