Booting/installing troubles

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Hello there, well I wanted to try the haiku, because I was a r5 user.

Actually I’ve got a lot of tries without any lucky.

I’ve tried to make a usb stick to run Haiku (by the guide), but it didn’t work
neither with dd for windows, or with win32diskimager.[both provided by the guide]

Actually the dd one, worked better if I can say it, as it formatted my usb, and wrote something on it
but after when I tried to boot from it, my computer said : invalid boot disk

I’ve also downloaded the iso for make a cd [the previous attempt was the anyboot obviously]
but, I don’t have any cd available for me write, and I have a rewritable dvd,
but it didn’t boot [I wrote the disk with poweriso 4.0] changing just the cd to dvd.

does it may be the reason why it didn’t boot?

If I remember well, when installing r5, i got to press space bar and choose a few options for get the system running.

My computer:
Lenovo 3000 N200
[almost everything it’s from intel also the graphic card]

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Some usb-sticks are just not bootable. Most of mine wasn’t which caused me a lot of headache before I found one that works well.

I’m not sure what’s your problem is but it seems that you don’t manage to boot from usb or cd/dvd. Have you made any bootable cds before? I think it’s a problem with how you create the cds or it would at least find it bootable.

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yes, for both windows and linux.

What could be the problem with just burning the iso?

//ps: i can see haiku image and icons getting highlighted by dvd,
but then the screens get black and it doesn’t nothing from there.

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I had this problem with an old eMachine PC I am using to test Haiku.

Try holding down Shift on boot, then selecting Safe Mode AND the safe video driver.

I could then boot from the disk, and could install. If this is true for you, you may need to then do what I did to make the system work from hard drive boot up:-

I had to repeat this process to boot into the installed version - and then move the drivers for nvidia and ATI cards from /boot/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin/ to a non-system location (so they won’t load on boot), and also moved all accelerants for such cards from /boot/system/add-ons/accelerants/ (except vesa.accelerant) so that the system would boot without safe mode options.

Side note: I also had a problem with the sound driver, but that caused a kernel panic, not a freeze (I did the same thing, moved the driver that crashed).

So I have a very fast Haiku system that unfortunately has no sound… but it works.