Haiku running on Asus EEEPC!

Wednesday, 30 July 2008 13:17

It is with great pleasure that I'm able to announce Haiku (rev26666) runs on the Asus EEEPC! I own a 701 model, and have sporadically been testing out Haiku revisions on the machine. For months I've been unable to boot Haiku, but somewhere along the line, the bug I filed got squashed, and Haiku will boot off the machine's internal 4gb fixed disk!

I have two partitions on the machine. One bfs partition of 250mb, and the rest a FAT32 that Windows XP occupies. I installed Haiku via a Vmware BeOS virtual machine (running in Windows XP) and access to the bfs physical partition, and then copying the contents of a nightly build over to the partition. Then added the operating system to the NT bootloader using bootpart. There's no sound, LAN, wireless, APM Driver.

*Update, you can get sound playback by installing OSS for Haiku.

Congratulations team Haiku! And here is the evidence (sorry for the quality):

Comments

0 # karl 2008-07-30 12:26

Hmm, I just looked at the bug I filed and it seems 'Powelly' discovered this a while ago. Oh well, I guess I second his finding and just bring the info out for those that don't read Trac everyday

0 # thenerd 2008-07-30 13:48

that is excellent news dude! soon time for the next step ;-)

0 # very cool — sikosis 2008-07-31 14:38

I'm just waiting for the newer eeepcs to hit our shores ... so I can pick one up as a Haiku machine :-)

0 # ok i buy one. — scops 2008-07-31 22:24

since it also runs on eeepc 900 i will buy one of them if they hit 350 â‚¬ or lower :-)

NICE a new small little BeOS (okokok haiku) laptop :-)

0 # karl 2008-08-02 11:57

I'm kind of eyeing the EeePC 1000... www.compu2000.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=2192

0 # kalex 2008-08-03 14:14

I expect it since I bought a EEEPC ! It's very good news, thank.

0 # karl 2008-09-02 12:05

Looks like 'colacoder' has ported a networking driver, the Attansic L2 Fast Ethernet driver (used by the Asus EeePC, wired), from FreeBSD to Haiku - although it currently crashes. www.SpringDaemons.com/stas/if_ae-1214569185.tar.bz2.

cia.vc/stats/project/OpenBeOS/.message/8d8451

0 # Will the EeePc become a good platform for HAIKU? — BrunoBratwurst 2008-10-16 21:01

Seems like there is a lot of interest in the Asus eepc Series...

As far as I understood it is a fixed system (built-in)...

So hardware modifications are not possible... so it seems to be a good choice for HAIKU users.
Looks like there will be a big boom again this Christmas for Asus eePCs Series.

Since it is difficult to upgrade... people might be interessted in HAIKU if everything works out of the box...
Would be great to get the webcam as well...
What do you think?

0 # karl 2008-10-17 05:33

I've read of people getting the normal hard drive models and replacing them with SSD drives. Also, the RAM is upgradeable in some models.

0 # apm — strogg 2009-06-10 21:31

Hi. My problem is, eeepc701 APM support. If i activate apm support, in userbootscript, the haiku is crash. Haiku not supported the eeepc701 APM???? My eeepc701 not mobile without battery info :sad:((