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Yet another BeOS boot problem
Name: Brent Date: August 11, 2002 at 10:27:57 Pacific
Comment:
I installed BeOS 5 personal edition. The problem I am having is when booting the BeOS, all the icons light up, but then everything stops and there is no further activity. I have to power off the system to reboot into windows 98 SE.
This is an install on an old, old compaq prolinea 575 machine.
Name: jefro Date: August 11, 2002 at 17:43:12 Pacific
Reply:
Did you use a bootfloppy to boot? Try that if you haven't. Do you have a Cyrix cpu or 486?
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Response Number 2
Name: Brent Date: August 11, 2002 at 19:50:07 Pacific
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I did try with a boot floppy. Same result. Its an old pentium 75.
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Response Number 3
Name: jefro Date: August 13, 2002 at 07:29:16 Pacific
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When you boot from the floppy and see "Loading..." press the space bar and choose safe mode options. You might have to choose all of them to find out what the trouble is. Might be an S3 video card problem. You might have to run it in Vesa mode or even get the Vesa driver from bebits.com
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