Hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
I have been trying to install Haiku on an old HP Beats laptop. When ever I boot from USB or DVD I get the message at the bottom telling me ‘Cannot continue booting (Boot volume is not valid)’
I know the drive is fine, I installed Linux Mint onto it to confirm and I have not had much luck finding any information on how to get past this.
I do have Haiku installed on an Acer netbook but the HP Beats laptop will be a big upgrade hardware wise.
It works, but since Beta 5 I had problems with booting into the HP laptop too.
Try booting with an older Hrev or older Beta 4
If it runns it runns very fast!
Having the same problem here, no matter what hrev/beta I tried, no matter what software used to prepare the thumbdrive, it worked once … 
I just tried a beta4 ISO and have the same issue as I did with the beta5 
Hy HP laptop won’t boot off the beta 5 image, but had beta 4 already installed so I used that to run the new installer. I can’t recall if I installed beta 4 from USB or if that was done with beta 3 though.
I feel like through some random combination of settings I probably got it to work, but when installing 5 I’d forgotten 4 was even on there until I used safe mode settings and saw a second boot volume option!
Thanks for the advice. I just tried Beta3 and the same problem. I guess I should give up and trying to get Haiku installed on my HP laptop for the moment.
Something that you could possibly do is boot a live Linux distro of some sort, and then use that to DD the Hauku image onto to the harddrive? Gotta be worth a shot because if it’s like mine it’ll boot off the HDD ok.
How did you format that partition as BeFS/BFS(*) then?