Hi. I currently have BeOS Professional Corporate Edition. I tried to install it on my Pentium II 400, 256MB RAM, with a Gigabyte BXE motherboard. It works fine, says it installs etc. I take out the CD and boot the system and it says it cannot find an active partition to boot from. I tried another two hard drives with the same problem. I am partitioning the disk using the partitioner that comes with the BeOS installation suite. I choose 100% BeOS for the partitioning scheme and then initialise the drive which also reports a successful operation. I tried booting back into the installation after I installed BeOS and the partitions are missing. I decided to install BeOS under VMWare Workstation 3.1. Everything went fine, but this time the system does boot up, but after the boot menu, it asks "Select new boot volune (Current: none)" I try to rescan for bootable volumes to little avail. Any help is much appreciated. Michael

Forget vm. Dunno whats with the drive? Maybe an ata100 or promise card? Let us know? If so you can get a driver from bebits for faster drives or maybe use a slower older drive as slave to slow the port.

I am using an old gigabyte bxe as i said, so its ata33, with a seagate 20gb 7500 rpm ata66 drive. so i don't think it is that. i tried about three different hard drives and still the same problems, the only time it actually does somethinb beyondthe installation was in VMWare but that was shortlived after the boot menu. what would be causing such a problem? the partition manager says it creates the partition fine, the installation program says it installed fine, but when i reboot the system there is nothing?

Okay to report some more, I tried on another different hard drive, and i wrote down some of the errors i get during installation. EVERYTIME i tried to use format from withinthe drive partitioner program, it would say "Formatting /dev/ide/ata/0/master/0/raw failed (General OS error [0xffffffff])" The install program always successfully installs, well so it says. I choose to install the boot manager each time and create a rescue disk etc. Now everytime after it says it sucessfully installs, I reboot my machine and take out the CD and hope it boots fm the hard drive. Nothing. It says each time "Not found any [active partition] in HDD DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DICK AND PRESS ENTER" (great english huh hehe) TO me that means that BeOS unsuccesfully loaded its boot manager. Another thing to note, on one specific hard drive everytime i went to reinstall it, the partition I created wouldn't be there, but the other hard drives actually had the partitions I setup present. Can anyone else help?

Anybody have a copy of BEOS professional they would be willing to sell? Thanks, Chris