BeOS 5 stucks on boot

[Technologov]

BeOS 5 stucks on graphical boot.

There is graphical image being displayed, but it has no reactions and no DVD/HDD activity.

Tested on: Vista, VBox 1.4.0

[Technologov]

This problem still valid for VirtualBox 2.2.2.

-Technologov

[diver]

This post from the 1st Jan 2008 ​http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=3730 have screenshot of running BeOS R5. I'm wondering is there any tutorial how to do it?

[Nick]

I have similar issues. Once it detected the bootable disk but got bogged down on the actual install. Anyone successful?

[diver]

I've found a way to start BeOS in qemu:

wget http://ftp.bebits.com/pub/beos/BeOS4Linux.tar.gz 
xvfz BeOS4Linux.tar.gz 
qemu -fda floppy.img -hda image.be -boot a 

Then I decided to convert image.be to VDI format

VBoxManage convertfromraw --format VDI image.be beos.vdi

After that you have to add floppy.img as boot floppy and beos.vdi as hard drive.

[diver]

Some more tips to make BeOS somewhat usable thees days:

• 1. You might need to disable audio in ​Audio settings or media_addon_server will freeze the OS.
  
  
• 2. Create a new hard drive using ​Virtual Disk Manager, create a partition on this drive (I did it from Haiku as BeOS fails to format it using DriveSetup, giving me "General OS error.") and initialize it from BeOS to BFS using DriveSetup.
  
  
• 3. Install BeOS to this new hard drive and set it as IDE Primaty Master in ​Hard disk settings. After you boot from this new drive run ​bootman from Terminal to install boot manager, this will allow you to get rid of using floppy.img.
  
  
• 4. To make GUI feel faster create vesa settings file using this command:

  echo mode 1024 768 16 > ~/settings/kernel/drivers/vesa
  

• 5. To enable networking select Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop in ​Network settings settings and download Intel® PRO/1000 driver written by Marcus Overhagen from ​here . Note that I only tested this driver after installing bone7a, but vanilla R5 should work too.
  

• 6. There is also ​OSS driver for audio by François Revol ​here, but i didn't manage to use it as media_addon_server kept freezing whole OS.

Tested on VirtualBox 3.0.4 on Fedora 8 as host. To bad BeOS feels very slow and sluggish compared to other supports OSes.

[diver]

Intel® PRO/1000 driver for BeOS