Hi,
I am new to BeOS and have just installed it.

My hard drive is all in one partition, currently with Windows XP. I was told BeOS would work on this partition with no problems.

Installed it fine, got my boot disk, restart into BeOS.

First off, kernal debug all the time. Then I seen you could add a -q paramemter to the restart exe file.

That stopped my debug errors.
Now, I get another problem.

On the screen there are 6 or 7 icons. The first 5 light up, then I receive this:

"Unable to find BeOS volume. If trying to boot from CD-ROM blah blah, press space during boot"

Pressed space during boot, scanned for available volumes. Shows only CD.

Tried copying the BeOS folder to a CD, same message.

Any ideas?

If I need to setup another partition, how do I do this? How big should it be? Would it damage existing XP stuff?

Thanks for any help.

Stewart Campbell
s.campbell@ikonboard.com

Are you using BeOS Personal Edition (PE) or BeOS Professional? You mention a CD, so I'm thinking you're probably using BeOS Professional.

If you're using BeOS Professional, you'll need to install it onto its own partition. (BeOS PE exists within a BFS disk image file, which can reside on your Windows partition.)

There are several possible solutions, but here's what I'd do:

1. Create a new partition for BeOS

2. Install BeOS

The amount of space you need for the BFS partition depends on several factors, such as how many applications you'll be installing, whether you'll be keeping data on the partition and if so, how much, how much swap space you'll need (which also depends on how much physical RAM you've got), etc. I'd make it at least 500MB and possibly as much as 1 or 2GB, depending.

You can create the partition using Partition Magic, Ranish Partition Manager, or any other partitioning utility that can create BFS partitions. If you got BeOS Professional 5.x on CD-ROM disc, it includes a special edition of Partition Magic you can use to create the BFS partition. Your copy of BeOS should also come with instructions on how to do this as well as how to install BeOS. The manual is available on the CD in HTML format. If you got a boxed package from Gobe, you'll also have a paperback version of the manual, including an installation guide. The documentation is surprisingly good. Installation should go without a hitch.

Here's a hint: You might not want to use enormous cluster sizes if you're creating a partition bigger than 1024MB. Go with the default cluster size.

Hey, I got the same problem, somtimes it boots normally and tells me "Insert BeOS CD into CD-ROM", when I inserting CD nothing happens, seems like system freezes.

Is it an NTFS partition that you installed on ?

Also, did you install BeOS on your primary HD ?

create a win 98 bootdisk www.bootdisk.com
load it do a fdisk/mbr
thats it reinstall Be if needed but your done.

I have read that the BeOS system "will not" work under win NT, XP, or ME. This may be false information, but I am not sure. I have found I haveta boot my machine into DOS, & launch BeOS from the COMMAND.COM prompt. This works for me; however you may be experiencing a different situation.

HI,
The bootprobelm I have is less complicated , i hope.
Everything works fine , expect my keybord and mouse.It seems that Beos does not find any Driver for them . It's samsung notebook pIII 1000 winMe.
can somebody tell me , how to handle this ?

Hi all

I am having the same problem.

Hardware
M/B Asus A7V 133
H/D 2 Seagte 40.8 Gb in RAID 0 (Ultra ATA100)
Windows ME

I downloaded BeOS5 PE and ran the instalation which should have asked me to create a boot disk, odd but not a problem.

The file size "BeOS 5 Personal Edition inflates to 512 megabytes, no more, no less." is 501 megabytes, very odd. OK there may have been some error in download, but I ran it anyway booting from floppy disk and got the same error as Stewart "Unable to find BeOS volume. If trying to boot from CD-ROM blah blah, press space during boot"

So I deleted the lot and downloaded it again: file size 501Mb, Error message the same ....CD-ROM blah blah......

I've tried doing the 'press space' thing with no joy.

Any offers ............. Please

H

Same here guys,

and I'm even worse. I dont get any icons lighting up when booting BeOS PE and as soon as the disk loading finishes the machine reboots. All hardware is compatible. Reinstalled, re-did everything with no change.

I havent heard any useful suggestions so far. Looks like you're kinda forced into getting the Pro version, just hoping these types of problems will go away!