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Other Haiku on Early Intel Macs

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I found some time trying to boot Haiku 32-bit on the 2006 Mac mini. It shows the bootscreen and loads the 6 icons below it. After that it shows a black screen and it won't show the desktop. After a minute or so, the system shuts down. Maybe I need to change some boot parameters, but when booting Haiku on a Mac, you can't press shift or spacebar to show boot options. Maybe I can modify the boot file on a different Haiku system.

The biggest hassle I have right now with this Mac is that it won't boot from USB or CD. When pressing Option at the Chime it's loads the boot picker but after selecting which system to boot, it completely freezes. My workaround was installing Haiku on the SSD on a PC and then inserting the SSD in the mini and boot from it. It works but it requires to open up the Mac everytime I want to change something on the Haiku boot settings...
 
new beta5 to try:

  • Version: R1/beta5
  • Release date: September 13, 2024

R1/beta5 – Release Notes​




The fifth beta for Haiku R1 over a year and a half of hard work to improve Haiku’s hardware support and its overall stability, and to make lots more software ports available for use.
 
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Quick test.
Haiku hanged at boot on cMP5.1 right after displaying image "HAIKU" with icons. But it booted quite fast on MacBook a1342. Track pad works, but no wifi. Not quite usable, don't know if there is installable driver for that.
 
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Tratkazir_the_1st said:
Quick test.
Haiku hanged at boot on cMP5.1 right after displaying image "HAIKU" with icons. But it booted quite fast on MacBook a1342. Track pad works, but no wifi. Not quite usable, don't know if there is installable driver for that.
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Dang !!

My netbook track pad worked fine with B4
But not with B5
Now I've got to reinstall B4

Get a hardware list
Write a ticket
If I can find B4
 
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TheLion01 said:
Update:

I found some time trying to boot Haiku 32-bit on the 2006 Mac mini. It shows the bootscreen and loads the 6 icons below it. After that it shows a black screen and it won't show the desktop. After a minute or so, the system shuts down. Maybe I need to change some boot parameters, but when booting Haiku on a Mac, you can't press shift or spacebar to show boot options. Maybe I can modify the boot file on a different Haiku system.

The biggest hassle I have right now with this Mac is that it won't boot from USB or CD. When pressing Option at the Chime it's loads the boot picker but after selecting which system to boot, it completely freezes. My workaround was installing Haiku on the SSD on a PC and then inserting the SSD in the mini and boot from it. It works but it requires to open up the Mac everytime I want to change something on the Haiku boot settings...
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I wasted heap of CDs trying to get their nightly to work on an ancient 32 bit laptop. The prob being the lack of a DVD burner but the nightly would fit on a CD being less than 700 mb.
Gave up on that and bought an external DVD burner and finally got it working.

There is an alternative key to use to get the pre boot menu...I need to check what it is land will get back with that info. OH !! I should read more carefully - you already stated the spacebar !!

It does provide a lot of turn off options so may work for you.

Timing of holding down may be critical
 
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Booted right up on a Mac Mini 3,1 with no delays for hardware probing or hangs. Not sure that I have full graphics acceleration but otherwise it seems smooth. I installed to HD but can't get that to boot. It's sitting with an install of El Capitan on the same drive. The bootloader EFI shows in the boot picker screen when the install USB is inserted but it boots straight into the live environment and doesn't give me the option of booting an already installed Haiku. As mentioned earlier, pressing the space bar does nothing, so no boot parameters can be set during the boot process as you could with BeOS.

At this moment I have a choice of blitzing El Capitan or messing around with rEFInd.
 
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My favourite bedtime game on haiku-os is KMahjong.

Still trying to complete it in under 20 minute and by then brain is numbified so straight off to sleep.

Hey - I'm an old geezer.
 
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mortlocli said:
My favourite bedtime game on haiku-os is KMahjong.

Still trying to complete it in under 20 minute and by then brain is numbified so straight off to sleep.

Hey - I'm an old geezer.
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Oops ..And I'm cheating - using an atom powered netbook - not a Mac
... Hissss!!! and snarls abound.
 
DCBassman said:
Will be giving Haiku 32-bit a try on a 2007 A1181 Macbook.
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As long as there's modern web browser support, 32-bit Haiku might be a viable upgrade path for Core Duo MacBooks and MacBook Pros stuck on 10.6 or with outdated 32-bit Linux installs. For a time I was really enthusiastic about Zorin 15.3 Lite, but I currently don't know of any easy to install modern Linux options that are still updated and have full 32-bit compatibility.
 
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Is it like some vidgame that you used to know?
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It's so annoying that GOG, and Steam took it off their online stores. You can't even buy it off of the Epic Game Store anymore...


They didn't have to cut me off and make it out like we were nothing.

I don't even need Epic's love, but they treated me like a stranger and it feels so rough.

No, they didn't have to stoop so low, have their friends collect all of the digital copies and then change their number.

I guess I don't need that though (since I still have my physical copies and backups of my GOG purchases).

Now it's just a video game I used to know.
 
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rampancy said:
It's so annoying that GOG, and Steam took it off their online stores. You can't even buy it off of the Epic Game Store anymore...
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I have no earthly idea about the game or what it is (my video gaming, more or less, ended with the C64 in 1986, and for a brief spell in 2002–03, when I dated someone who had a PS2, a Gamecube, and a Genesis), but… when @DCBassman said “GOTYE”, of course I was gonna go there.

[warning to all who know: don’t click, because as you know, erworms can lie in stasis for years before being re-awoken; for all three people who missed where I went with that riposte, click that link Disclaimer: sorry, not sorry.]


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They didn't have to cut me off and make it out like we were nothing.

I don't even need Epic's love, but they treated me like a stranger and it feels so rough.

No, they didn't have to stoop so low, have their friends collect all of the digital copies and then change their number.

I guess I don't need that though (since I still have my physical copies and backups of my GOG purchases).

Now it's just a video game I used to know.
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YESSSS (even though I missed half the references).

It’s as earworm-worthy as “Sucks to be You” by PROZZÄK. (Kiss it, GORILLAZ.)

[Now one can see where I funnelled my pop culture energies, in lieu of video games: pop music.]
 
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