BeOS

[johnoyler]

Hey Sheppy...

Are you trying to tell us that you don't have a Bebox or two stashed away in the attic? With AT&T Hobbit CPUs, no less?

 

[exadeath]

Doesn't boot

I tried both resizing with imagetool and using transporter. It just gives me a screen with a cursor.


Using build 3094.

 

[mayuge]

I have tried to run several nightly builds of Haiku with the beta2 build of Parallels, but I have failed so far.
I only see the BIOS POST and then a black screen with the (text)cursor in the middle of the screen. Parallels is at 100% CPU, but nothing happens.

I have build3120 and got the same result.

 

[titetanium]

I actually have a machine that has BeOS sitting in my living room. Unfortunately, the motherboard on it is conking out. :-(

I actually played with it for a couple of years till they went out of business. Loved it, it was so revolutionary and ahead of its time. I can still remember the initial shock and awe when I booted it up for the first time. I'd be willing to give it a shot again and maybe use it as my full time os if and when most or all of the bugs are ironed out.

 

[Frank Friedlos]

Would like to try Haiku, but...

Hi all,

I downloaded haiku.image.bz2 and followed the instructions, but Parallels image tool did not want to play with it. Am I getting the right image? The instructions don't seem to mention the .bz2 extension. All the same, I think the versatility shown here, that I haven't got working yet is a hoot. As an aside, I have had OS2/warp running. What next?

 

[buzzdat]

.bz2 is a bZipped file - you need to uncompress it. Open a terminal, and at the command line enter:

bunzip2 file.bz2

where file is the filename. The resulting file will be your disk image.

 

[Frank Friedlos]

Oh I see. Should have guessed. Thanks for that.

 

[Frank Friedlos]

As with some previous posts, I also get the black screen with single text cursor. But then if I click in, and press return (as one does) I get a HAIKU splash screen, with a white bit at the top bearing the message "kernel panic/could not mount boot device" and the slightly sinister "welcome to kernel debug land". Yes, and you're welcome to it too. I tried a few ruses such as starting a linux VM but pointing to the haiku.hdd, and it spontaneously rebooted my Mac! It was me that was panicking at this point. The only other time I had problems with Parallels/kernel panics/crashes turned out to be specific to Core 2 duo machines, so maybe this is the same. Does this tally with anyone's experience?

 

[Rachel Faith]

I have tried to run several nightly builds of Haiku with the beta2 build of Parallels, but I have failed so far.
I only see the BIOS POST and then a black screen with the (text)cursor in the middle of the screen. Parallels is at 100% CPU, but nothing happens.

Same here.... any help ??

All I get is a Black Screen.

 

[Rachel Faith]

I'd like to ask one of the experts here to post a little more detial on HOW one is supposed to install these non windows aps.

Like step by step. Cause it seems many of us aren't doing something or are doing something we shouldnt be doing.

Like it always asks for the windows key... what do we do there? Or how do we not get that screen?

Etc...

 

[Gryzor]

I have tried today, and experimented with various settings. One thing that I didn't see mentioned in the "guide" is which Windows are we supposed to specify. You can get Parallels Panics depending upon your choice.

By using "Other Window" and "Windows ME" I got to see the error.

I had a few "out of memory" and a PANIC: page fault, but interrupts were disabled.

In the out of memory I jumped to the Kernel Debugger.

It looks like it won't work for now. (I am using latest Paralells -> 3120)

Did anybody mange to get past this?

Martin.

 

[Frank Friedlos]

Nil Desperandum

Thought I'd try one more time, and it worked! As far as I can see, the thing that prevents Haiku booting is having networking switched on. Without this, get to the blackscreen/single cursor stage, click in and press return, and the OS loads. Now why was it I wanted to do this again?

 

[Big Al]

Are you using one of the betas or the last release? I've had no success at all using any of the latest betas. I always get a vm error. Removing networking did nothing for me. Any ideas anyone?

 

[blackjack75]

As stated earlier the size must be 120 mb! Not anything else. Took me a while to realize the problem was I resized the disk to 500mb.

 

[the_webers_inc]

Haiku works fine here....

I have been using Parallels to check on the Progress of Haiku for about 6 months now & haven't encountered any problems yet. I have updated Parallels to the latest beta & now RC when they come out, without any problems. I just tried the latest version of haiku (Revision 20239) in Parallels RC3 Build 3170(See attached image below).

- I have my os type in this VM set to other.
- I only increase the size of the haiku.image.hdd by 1mb -- if it's 114mb I make it 115mb
- I only have the HDD and CD-Rom enabled in this VM configuration. Network, USB, etc is turned off.

On a side note: my experience above was on a 20" Intel iMac Core Duo. I have tried, on a more limited basis, to run Haiku in the various betas and RC of Parallels on my Black Macbook. The last time I did so I ended up in Kernel debug land. But that was 3 weeks ago when I was on the road. No problems on the iMac.

T. J.

 

[tlj]

Haiku successfully running for me too

I followed the instructions posted. The only strange thing is the time to book haiku. Sometimes it boots quickly, other times it takes a few minutes to boot. At first I thought I was experiencing problems that others have reported in this thread but after waiting for a bit all was okay.

 

[Resuna]

tlj: do you get it booting with network active or not?

If it's timing out on something to do with the network that would explain it, and of course networking was one of the achilles heels of the original BeOS. Perhaps the instructions on the Haiku site need to be updated.

 

[ctrl+alt+del]

Full support for BeOS is in our long-term plan for versions 3.0+ of our virtualization engine.

So, does Parallels 3.0 supports BeOS R5?

 

[dolbie]

So, does Parallels 3.0 supports BeOS R5?

I'm waiting on my activation key so I can find this out.
Any 3.0 beta testers out there try this?

 

[adparadox]

Well, Haiku still works

I'm waiting on my activation key so I can find this out.
Any 3.0 beta testers out there try this?

I just installed version 3 of Parallels (build 4124) and Haiku (revision 20610) works just as well as it did before. Unfortunately, I don't have a BeOS R5 CD laying around, otherwise I would try that out as well.