Installing R3

Forum thread started by Pascal on Wed, 2011-06-22 11:20

Hello!

I used to be a BeOS user a long time ago. This time I wanted to try to install
it on a new computer I recently bought. Th motherboard is nothing fancy: Intel DH67CL.
I have put a I5 processor and a 250GB spare disk.

I could partition, format and install. I also wrote the boot menu. But rebooting gives
simply nothing. Black screen.

Any hint?

Thanks,

Pascal

Comments

Re: Installing R3

by thatguy - 2011-06-22 13:39

R3 BEOS on hardware that new ? umm if so, I doubt that would ever work. Alpha3 HAIKU should more then likely boot that system no problem.

Re: Installing R3

by tonestone57 - 2011-06-22 13:57

Likely video driver issue.

Hold down the [SHIFT] key at start of boot. Should allow you into boot menu.
Enable "fail-safe video mode" + choose a resolution.

fail-safe video mode = VESA driver.

That should get you to boot if video issue with Intel graphics driver.

Re: Installing R3

by Earl Colby Pottinger - 2011-06-22 20:52

You can also read this thread: www.haiku-os.org/community/forum/vesa_file_fixing_boot_problem

Re: Installing alpha3

by Pascal - 2011-06-23 01:14

Hello!

I changed the title which obviously was wrong.

Now I could boot fine (from hard disk). I think I made a mistake yesterday with the partition
tool. There was a popup saying there is no space to write the boot menu...

That said, is there a trick to improve the video driver? The resolution is limited to 1280 x 1024,
but I would like to use my screen to its native resolution (2048 x 1152).
Does anyone know how to use recent monitors?

Thanks,

Pascal

Re: Installing alpha3

by tonestone57 - 2011-06-23 03:37

That said, is there a trick to improve the video driver? The resolution is limited to 1280 x 1024, but I would like to use my screen to its native resolution (2048 x 1152).

You are using the VESA driver for video. It only supports 4:3 video modes and tops out at 1600 x 1200. I also have Intel HD graphics (i3) and there is no driver for Intel HD.

You will be stuck with 1280 x 1024 unless you can get one of Haiku's 2d drivers to work for you. ie, use a Haiku supported video card. The non-VESA graphic drivers allow setting widescreen modes.

I have to check Linux to see if they offer a VESA driver with 16:9 or 16:10 resolutions. If yes, then can ask to get Haiku's updated to 16:9 since my monitor also is widescreen.

Re: Installing alpha3

by tonestone57 - 2011-06-23 05:42

Actually, for VESA driver, the video modes are taken from the video BIOS. Some BIOSes are better than others and provide lots of VESA modes and others give only the standard 4:3 modes.

A BIOS update could provide more VESA modes if the manufacturer added them in.