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BeOS does not start in Pentium 4!

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macruzq

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Mar 24, 2006, 1:00:49 PM3/24/06
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I installed Beos PE 5.0 in a pentim but does not work. Then I read that
there is a patch for BeOS 5.O for recent processors, but how can I
install it if it does not work? I think this should be installable from
the host OS (Windows). Any suggestions are welcome.

Regards,

Marco

Henri Vettenranta

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Mar 24, 2006, 3:29:37 PM3/24/06
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macruzq <mac...@myway.com> wrote:
> I installed Beos PE 5.0 in a pentim but does not work. Then I read that
> there is a patch for BeOS 5.O for recent processors, but how can I
> install it if it does not work?

Perhaps you'd better get a newer distro that includes the patch, such as
BeOS Max[1] or Developer Edition[2]. I haven't tried Deved 2.2, but at
least BeOS Max Edition gives you the possibility to run it as a live cd,
where you can install the patch. With both Max and Deved, you also have
the option to install the system on a hard drive partition, of course.

[1] http://www.bebits.com/app/3892
[2] http://www.bebits.com/app/4058

> I think this should be installable from
> the host OS (Windows).

Well, given the other possible ways to solve the problem, I don't think
it is worth it to create BFS support in Windows. Of course, if Be
had been alive when P4 and the AMD processors R5 doesn't run on by
default were published, we probably wouldn't have this problem.

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--Alivaltiosihteeri

Earl Colby Pottinger

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Mar 25, 2006, 1:12:20 PM3/25/06
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"macruzq" <mac...@myway.com> :

Check out http://mmadia.zelect.org/files/boot_archive/

That should do it.

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Marco A. Cruz Quevedo

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Apr 4, 2006, 10:41:59 AM4/4/06
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I have tried them but does not work, ¿any suggestion?

Thanks

Marco.

CheetoDust

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Apr 7, 2006, 11:19:58 AM4/7/06
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Hmmm. I recently took a hard drive with a working 5.03 from a Duron 700
machine and put it in a P4-2000 machine and it booted right up! Just needed
new Audio/Video/Network drivers and it was good to go. The Windows 2000
partition on that same hard drive, however, now just Blue-Screens on
startup.

So 5.03 runs on a P4. Not sure about 5.00 and then a 5.03 update, though.
ISTR there also being some kernal config file in /home/config that has
to be edited if you have more than 128MB of RAM, otherwise things are
unstable.

...Sean.

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