To clarify, the cursor is not a mouse cursor but the underscore cursor you see while the system is booting. In a nutshell, Haiku is not even loading. Even holding down the shift key results in nothing. I’ve tried installing Haiku several times now (with and without safe mode enabled) and with different partitioning schemes but it’s always the same problem. What’s going on here?
CPU: Athlon X2 4450e
GPU: ATi All-in-Wonder 3650 HD (have to enable VGA safe mode for this or I get a garbled screen)
RAM: 4GB DDR2 667 (passes memtest)
HDD: 300GB drive and 120GB drive (both SATA, 7200RPM, pass SeaTools. I’ve tried installing on each)
I’m running Haiku on almost the same machine and had the very same problem. Solved.
Here is how:
First.
Select the drive. Partition->Initialize->Intel Partition Map (agree to all the warnings)
Select the empty space. Partition->Create. It should be BFS by default.
Select the partition. Partition->Initialize->Be File System.
Installed Haiku and still couldn’t boot.
And everything worked.[/quote]
It’s because our “Intel Partitioning System” does not write the boot code area, unless the disk is set to blank. (at least the firsts records)