Whenever I try to download a package using pkg or haiku depot, or even update the system it encounters errors downloading packages. Why is this?

Hello! I was attempting an install of the latest beta version of Haiku on an HP Probook 650 G1’s harddrive. The setup appeared to go successfully but when I got to booting up the system I got the following error: “o Sys Loader! (sic)” on a blank black screen. I tried the instructions listed here:

https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/uefi_booting

And after doing this twice, both times I got the error:

Boot device not found. Please install an operating system on your harddisk. Harddisk - (3F0) F2 System Diagnostics For more information please visit: www.hp.com\go\techcenter\startup

Haiku is going to be the only OS on my system so I used the basic method. Perhaps it’s an HP specific problem?

Edit - after reviewing other articles, yes I did unmount the EFIBOOT partition before rebooting and have opened a support request on the Discussion Page: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/o-sys-loader-error-appears-on-boot/14894/1

Hello. Quite a while ago I wanted to see what Haiku could do on bare metal. I had it installed but at that time it didn't have support for the ethernet controller on my motherboard. Now like a year or probably more later I decided to try installing it again for fun. I have tried 4 different nightly images over the past like 2 months. They all have the same behavior.

The second that the haiku logo appears nothing happens. I noticed I can't engage num lock or caps lock anymore. Or even the reset button on the PC case doesn't actually work anymore. I have to long press the power button to shut it off.

I was unable to change this behavior with any settings in the boot loader. Not even any text ever gets printed with the on screen log. I havent really played with the system components though, that seems too long for the kinda 40 minutes i allocated for it each day now.

The specs are Asus Tuf B550 Ryzen 3900X 32 GB ram Radeon 7900XTX gpu. I wanted to install it to a sata ssd.

Edit: I swapped out my GPU for the Intel Arc i have and an Nvidia card, and unplugged some things like a USB Switch and a hdmi capture card. That hasnt changed the outcome.

Putting the solution in the text because of a warning: This CAN and probably WILL shorten the lifespace of compenents, for destops that mostly only storage devices (from what I read), but for laptops it can also damage more critical components. It shouldnt damage them enough to go from 20 yeasr to 5, but it is worth mentioning.

The trick is to uncomment "acpi false" in the file /boot/home/config/settings/kernel/drivers/kernel.

Note: Pressing "Power Off" at this point does nothing and it only changes next boot. It does not automatically shut off after it cycles through the dialoge. You will have to press the power button to finish shutting down.

Hey, I am posting this here because I feel like reddit will have the best searchability for an issue like this, since nothing I found online would help until I decided to start messing with BIOS and thats what did it!

I am still troubleshooting things in Haiku, if this post gets into any trouble I wont post any more solutions that I find.

I want to download this OS and play around with it. However I can't seem to find any info on if Steam works on the OS or using wine to make it work. Has anyone tried this?

First off, I'm pretty sure I already love Haiku. The threads-first design really shows, it runs fantastic on older metal.

But I think Haiku stands alone in its philosophy with regard to modifier keys. Yes, it inherits it from BeOS and one could argue it's kind of MacOS-ey, but even in MacOS there's two classes of operations that are designated to two different modifiers: Cmd does mostly higher-level stuff, and Ctrl does mostly lower-level things. There's an even clearer separation in Windows and Linux with Super generally being the highest level, then Alt, then Ctrl (you could argue which one is which level, of course, but still).

In Haiku, regardless of which option I choose (Haiku style or Linux style), these categories are confounded. I switched to Linux style (because I use Ubuntu and Windows on the daily and it's muscle memory), which went well for a bit until I pressed Ctrl-W in the terminal to delete the last word (also muscle memory, of course) and it yeeted the whole window.

Again, even in MacOS (which would be closer to the BeOS/Haiku philosophy) those would be more clearly separated.

I looked everywhere and it seems that at the moment (latest beta) you can't tweak window manager shortcuts, you can only set up shortcuts to launch apps.

Am I missing something or is there no way around it? I depend on Linux for my daily work, so messing with the preexisting muscle memory is not an option.

Hello! This is my first foray into dual booting of any kind, and after successfully troubleshooting a handful of other snafus, I managed to get past the boot screen on my Dell Inspiron 2400 (primarily running Windows XP Home x86) — only to be met with a bouncing box on my monitor informing me that the input isn't supported. My best guess at a reason for this is that this monitor only supports 60hz output and I believe Haiku defaults to something higher (though now I can't find where I initially came across that information, so maybe I made it up), which would be easily fixable in theory, iiiif I was able to actually see what was on screen to change it.

I see there's an Advanced Debug Options button when I bring up the Haiku Boot Loader, but I can't for the life of me find any documentation regarding what I can enter in this field. Is there some kind of command I can enter to force 60hz output after boot? I can see the boot screen all the way through to the end, it's just after it finishes that everything goes dark.

To be clear, I tried enabling all debug and safe mode options, and a handful of combinations therein, but it always hangs after the VGA colors displayed at the top switch to grayscale.

Some additional info:
Running Haiku beta4 off a bootable USB flash-drive

PC specs in case it's relevant:
CPU: Intel Celeron 2.6GHz
RAM: 254MB
Integrated Intel 82845G Graphics Controller

I got Haiku up and running just fine on my 14 year old netbook as the third OS on its SSD. Everything is unfathomably snappy compared to Peppermint OS (let alone Windows 7) but I can't connect to the internet wirelessly. My WiFi card is displayed in the device list and seems to be supported just fine but its path is shown as unknown so I can't scan for networks via terminal and it doesn't show up in the network preferences setting. Any ideas what I need to do next?

Hey, I want to install Haiku on this laptop but when I plug the usb key it stops at BIOS devices listing. I tried putting the key in an another PC and Haiku boot correctly and I also tried to boot Linux from a key on this computer and it’s working well.

Does anyone already has this problem?

Fallout1-CE and Fallout2-CE ported to HaikuOS?

If upon boot you see “Select boot volume (none)” or something like that AND you were installing on raw HDD then take these steps:

• Launch installer
• Under set up partitions select desired disk
• Choose “Disk->Create partition table” (for me Intel one works)
• Then choose new raw partition under HDD
• Partition-> Create (select “active partition”
• Partition-> format (BeOS)

Proceed to installation as usual

Hope this will be useful

I was trying to install Haiku R1/beta4 64 bit on a dell T3500. Originally I ran into some problems as the drive would work, and install it to the SSD, but ran into some problems that would probably be solved with `makebootable` but I haven't gotten to the part where I could even try to figure out how that works.

As of right now, when flashing the ISO file (I downloaded all the ones I could from within the US just for the sake of trying everything) it goes straight to the boot manager with no boot volume available. On windows Disk Management it shows two partitions: a blank, active partition with no name and no ability to set a drive path, and Haiku ESP.

I have flashed with both balanaEcther and Rufus to see if it'd make any difference.

Specs:

Dell Precision T3500, BIOS A17

12 GB DDR3 1333MT/S

Intel Xeon X5680

256 GB SATA SSD

nVidia Quadro 5000

I dont know if specs help, but I thought I'd throw them in anyways

EDIT: I checked the logs for Rufus on my latest attempt, still no boot volume, but rufus says this:

`Found USB 2.0 device 'SanDisk Cruzer Blade USB Device' (0781:5567)

1 device found

Disk type: Removable, Disk size: 32 GB, Sector size: 512 bytes

Cylinders: 3809, Tracks per cylinder: 255, Sectors per track: 63

Partition type: MBR, NB Partitions: 2

Disk ID: 0x34C99501

Drive has an unknown Master Boot Record

Partition 1:

Type: BeOS/Haiku (0xeb)

Detected File System: (Unrecognized)

Size: 1.4 GB (1468006400 bytes)

Start Sector: 12288, Boot: Yes

Partition 2:

Type: EFI System Partition (0xef)

Detected File System: FAT12

Size: 2.8 MB (2949120 bytes)

Start Sector: 2879488, Boot: No`

if not, then what are the other options for streaming/remote desktop?

Hi all,

I'm currently having trouble trying to install Haiku on an Acer Aspire E5-574 laptop.

I've fiddled with the BIOS and tried both UEFI and legacy, but it just won't install. When I boot from the Haiku USB image, I can navigate around the files but when I attempt an install, the options for the hard drive are greyed out.

Even when I try to select 'Drive Setup' it doesn't do anything and appears to freeze.

Any ideas on what I can do to install Haiku?

Thanks!

The hardware list says it should work fine, just wondering if anyone else has tried it and can confirm?

silly but simple question, as the title says can i and how do i dualboot haikuos + windows 10?

also i have MBR for the partitioning table

I haven't tried to install Haiku on my old Lenovo N22 laptop in a long while. It used to install fine but now the partition manager doesn't even see the drive: eMMc storage. Is this a bug or something else.

I don't really know if this should be tagged as help sorry if not. I am running Haiku on my Asus b560m-a motherboard and everything works well except my mouse speed seems to randomly slow down. It will be normal speed then suddenly it will slow down then it will be normal again. This also happens on my Asus e210 laptop. Any information would be appreciated!

Sorry if this has been posted already somewhere

I already seen the post from 2 years ago which seems to explain my problem perfectly but I'm wondering if anything's changed?

Hello!

Any fix for LibreOffice not starting on Haiku R1/beta4 (32-bit) yet?

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Cheers.

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I have a strange issue with audio on my probook 6450b when running Haiku.

Audio worked under windows without any issues.

Installed beta 4 of Haiku and downloaded all the updates.

I'm unable to get sound from the internal speakers yet the headphone are ok. This notebook has 3 audio buttons on/off volume up & volume down.

When Haiku boots around the time the card icon appears on the splash screen the audio on/off button led turns on and audio is routed to the headphone socket. The audio settings reflect this . But i'm unable to re-enable the audio via the on/off button. Any ideas on how the resolve this?

Thx

Julian

Exactly as the title says, I've tried both the x86 and x64 ISOs of Beta 4, attempting to install it on my Early 2011 MacBook Pro

I want to install linux, please help me.

Hello everyone! I have a problem with Wi-Fi working on a Chinese laptop for $15

I can't find the firmware for this Wi-Fi module.

Ps: I'm using the latest possible nightly build.