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Name: Yogesh
Date: November 12, 2002 at 09:03:32 Pacific
OS: Beos
CPU/Ram: 900Mhz / 128 Mb
Comment:

Process configuration:Mercury i810e chipset with celeron 900 Mhz proccessor,128MB Ram,
40GB Hard drive...


I am having a multi Os as follows using multiple primary partition

c:\win3.1 FAT16
d:\Win95 FAT32
e:\win98 FAT32
f:\win98 FAT32
g:\winXP NTFS
h:\here installed BeOS R5 PE FAT32

The Beos has installed successfully but it wont boot directly or also with a boot floppy.

I have tried installing BeOS in all Win 95,98,XP.Please some figure me what would be the problem,thanx



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Name: jefro
Date: November 12, 2002 at 14:09:09 Pacific
Reply:

A few things.
You might need a patch for the Duron if it is new. I thought that only 1g's were Duron 7's but some might have been shipped as 900mhz. See http://wiki.bebits.com/page/IndexPage for athlon

Since it is so far down the chain I might try to boot into safe mode and see if you can choose the install. Might be looking on wrong partition. Press spacebar at "loading..." and try that.

Anyway, tell us what is happing rather than it doesn't work. Can you say how far it boots, what you see. How much memory you have video card. ??????


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Response Number 2
Name: Yogesh
Date: November 13, 2002 at 12:35:43 Pacific
Reply:

Mr Jefro,I don't know much about my computer,
So,I don't know the size of video memory.The BeOS shows some about 6 circular pictures while booting and it highlights every picture then it moves to the next screen with a blue screen which wont move,Hmmm rarely I could use mouse to simply move accross the blue screen.Oh dear it took me
3 1/2 Hours to download BeOS R5 and I don't want that go in vain.


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Response Number 3
Name: jefro
Date: November 14, 2002 at 14:15:57 Pacific
Reply:

Try a safe boot. When you see "Loading..." then press the space bar and choose safe mode and also choose the BeOS install. If you don't have an install shown on the safe mode then you will have to delete the beos install and put it lower on the boot chain. Maybe on drive D:?


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Response Number 4
Name: Yogesh
Date: November 17, 2002 at 00:22:35 Pacific
Reply:

Jefro,Thanx for ur support but ur idea didn't work,first I can't even boot BeOS in safe mode,also I didn't see the "Loading..." message.I can only see blue screen.I could not install BeOS on lower driver because it doesn't have enough space.
The drive with more space are
h:\Beos installed here
i:\Fat32 drive
j:\Fat32 drive
k:\Fat32 drive
and 14 Gb of empty space waiting for installation of os/2 warp and red hat linux.

Is there any other way to install BeOS successfully in my system jefro


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Response Number 5
Name: jefro
Date: November 17, 2002 at 13:51:06 Pacific
Reply:

If you saw the blue screen you went too far. Press the space bar sooner.
Do you have a floppy to boot into beos?
Do you boot into beos from Windows?


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Response Number 6
Name: Yogesh
Date: November 18, 2002 at 23:23:20 Pacific
Reply:

Thank u jefro,now i can succesfully boot to BeOS using the option diable call from Bios insafe mode.But where are the other drives,Beos shows be only home.


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Response Number 7
Name: Ray
Date: November 26, 2002 at 10:18:58 Pacific
Reply:

It may be the video card. I use a Jaton Video-88PCI-32plus and it works with BeOS, RedHat Linux 7.2 and WinDoz. Costs about $40, can be found on the net. I use a AMD2200XP with BeOS 5. I had to patch the BeOS code by hand using info from a Russian guy! It was VERY, VERY diffucult to implement, but WOW does BeOS fly now! The patch is for the AMD XP. It is caused by the AMD XP processor telling a big lie. It tells the system that it is an Intel processor which it is not. The system believes the Processor and tries to use Intel specific instructions. I think your Duron should be OK. But do not plan on upgrading to AMD XP.


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