True. I mentioned rechecking the install process in this case.
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There are ports of Linux, NetBSD and Plan9.
A number of floppies are required to boot/start the install atleast for Linux, I haven’t yet tried the other two.
So wich BeBox version did you used? (Usage means real usage / os install / system maintenance, not just seen a picture or a video about it).
For me I used to own a 66MHz BeBox from about 2004 till 2007, and have use PowerPC BeOS on Mac since something like 2000. I also owned BeIA kit too, but that’s another story. I used BeOS at home till I got a Black polycarbonate Santa Rosa MacBook in 2007. Recently, I have been using PowerPC quite a bit and now have 2 Mac’s running BeOS R5 (one of which boots from SD cards via an IDE to SD adapter and I have a card I installed PR2 and R3 on to.) I have had to diagnose and fix a number of boot issues recently (old hardware is fun) and my boot config on the BeBox went through various stages (like me adding in more RAM and swapping in and out various cards and drives.) I can’t specifically verify all the BeBox stuff as a lot is from memory, but I’m pretty familiar with the hardware having owned one and physically looked at it.
Yeah I can imagine the Linux install was a little janky. The NetBSD one as I remember it boots by you creating a small BFS partition and putting a fake kernel.joe there that bootstraps the NetBSD to load. They had a util calles Elf2Pef that converts an elf binary to a PEF one and that is how they achieved this. I ported the util to BeOS years ago when I was trying to see how easy it would be to make a newer GCC build on PowerPC.
I have never read anything about the Plan9 version… but it’s pretty old now, right? I can’t imagine any of these OS are “new” as the BeBox was pretty niche at best.
The Linux port was using the 2.0.3x kernel, for Plan9 there is only bootstrap code from 1997, both those are very much old.
NetBSD still supports the BeBox in the last release.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120716202837/http://www.bebox.nu/os.php?s=os/plan9/index
https://web.archive.org/web/20031009011501/http://www.caldo.demon.co.uk/plan9/soft/bebox.html
Wow! I wonder if it still boots though? I would be interested to hear is anyone manages to get it to run.
All the files are still there, I might give it a try at some point…
http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/bebox/
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It worked as of last year - Re: Successful installation of NetBSD 8.2 on 133MHz BeBox
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Nice, so 9.2 should work fine as well.
This is what I’m seeing on the serial
IDE 0: Boot ROM tels us there is one master and no slave.
IDE: device(s) able to use DMA, create and lock DMA table.
find_area error
----> disk/ide/0/master/raw
----> disk/ide/rescan
make_fixed_driver info 0006bf14
----> disk/scsi/rescan
make_fixed_driver info 0006bfb4
----> disk/scsi/040/raw
make_fixed_driver info 0006c0c8
make_fixed_driver info 0006bff0
----> scsicmd
Max log buffer == 256k
Checking block bitmap...
*** super block sez 614784 used blocks but it's really 478404
Done checking bitmap.
bfs mounted on fd 3, bfs_info @ 0xc8200
setting vnid 0x400003 (bi@ 0x9d3000) to be UN-CACHED
*** write_data_stream 2 could not find pos 201322496 bi 0x9d3000 max data size 201326592
spinning forever.
Just a quick side note here: I like the language the BeOS devs used in those kernel messages… “super block sez 614784 used blocks but it’s really 478404” 
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Is this reading a Hard drive or install CD?
If hard drive, how big is the drive you are using?
It looks like the low level filesystem is not what the boot process is expecting.
If this is a CD (there’s no context, so I’m unsure) the drive looks like it might be failing to read the physical media.
If it is a hard drive, it sort of looks like it is trying to read data past the bounds of something - is it possible there is an error on the drive? Also - the largest drive I have tried in a PowerPC machine is in the double digits (so, circa 80GiB is the biggest IDE I think, and probably in the region of 30GiB for SCSI) The BeBox hardware is quite old, and I guess it might be restricted? Especially over IDE.
When I get a chance I will boot a Mac and look at what it says around that point (though it is a different kernel and different hardware so might not really help you.) Maybe @lorezan can post what happens on real BeBox hardware?
This is the hard drive. I can boot from CDROM and used that to install the OS. It completes the install and then reboots. This is where it hangs (and on subsequent boots).
The drive is 60GiB. I read that 120 is the limit and the machine has no issues recognizing this drive. I suspect it’s missing a boot partition, but I haven’t had a chance to investigate further. The installer is fairly basic and doesn’t give a lot of guidance on how to partition the drive.
Last time I got a serial boot log out of my BeBox it was running DR8:
bootlog
Be Boot ROM, built Aug 16 1996 18:17:08
Rev 6 motherboard, Rev 5 i/o card
Copyright (C) 1991-96 Be Incorporated. All Rights Reserved
ide:wait_status:mask=c0 want=40 cur=00 timeout=3000000.000000 usec
IDE Master Disk:
Mfg: FUJITSU M1636TAU € Ser: 01241794 Firmware: 5044 FUJITSU M1636TAU €
Configured boot device is ‘/dev/ide_disk_master’
fsmount(/dev/floppy_disk) failure
‘NewDisk’ (fixed, r/w), 2511840 sectors, vol=0, driver=3 (/dev/ide_disk_master)
Booting from device: /dev/ide_disk_master
Be PowerPC Kernel version of Aug 30 1996 time 19:48:19
(C) Copyright, Be Incorporated, 1991-96
Processor: PowerPC 603e, revision 0x0400, at 132MHz
BIPROCESSOR mode
02000000 bytes of RAM (32 MBytes)
Be motherboard version 6
Be io card version 5
NTHREADS = 2048, NTEAMS = 512, NSEMS = 8192
NAREAS = 4096
MAXFILE = 2560
NPORTS = 2048, MAXMSGS = 4096, MAXBUFS = 4096
memsize = 02000000, memsizeup = 02000000, memsizedwn = 02000000
BAT: map (0) 38000000, 1000000 (pci_io)
BAT: map (1) 30000000, 1000000 (pci_mem)
BAT: map (2) 2e000000, 80000 (flash)
BAT: map (3) 40000000, 2000000 (physical_ram)
KERNEL : interrupting sleeping cpu 1!
starting cpu 1
path 0 target 3 lun 0 inqdata ‘SONY CD-ROM CDU-76S 1.1c’
ide:wait_status:mask=c0 want=40 cur=00 timeout=3000000.000000 usec
ide:wait_status:mask=40 want=40 cur=00 timeout=10000.000000 usec
IDE Master Disk:
Mfg: FUJITSU M1636TAU € Ser: 01241794 Firmware: 5044 FUJITSU M1636TAU €
in=0, out=1, err=2
fsmount(/dev/floppy_disk) failure
fsmount(/dev/floppy_disk) failure
‘NewDisk’ (fixed, r/w), 2511840 sectors, vol=0, driver=1 (/dev/ide_disk_master)
Could not open ‘/dev/scsi_cd_030’
Could not open ‘/dev/ide_disk_slave’
kernel_vol = 0 dir = 11980 device = ‘/dev/ide_disk_master’
boot_vol = 0
backing vol = 0
swap_size = 4 MB
Starting system/app_server from vol 0
Waiting for picasso 0
HELLO WORLD
start
found /dev/kb_mouse on system vol # 0
Controller base at 60
Try to hire cirrus on vol #0 as graphic driver…
cirrus refuse the job
Try to hire s3 on vol #0 as graphic driver…
s3 on vol #0 is the new graphic driver…
swap_size = 8 MB
Waiting for picasso 1
Starting system/storage_server from vol 0
swap_size = 12 MB
Starting system/zoo_keeper from vol 0
open cvd 0 615
open cvd 0 615
Bootscript path = ‘/NewDisk/system/Bootscript’
Starting bin/sh from vol 0
swap_size = 16 MB
swap_size = 20 MB
swap_size = 24 MB
swap_size = 28 MB
swap_size = 32 MB
ir driver: Aug 30 1996 01:57:16
doing ir controller reset…
ir controller properly reset!
closing down the IR driver… bye bye
IR driver: 5000 G. we outta here.
found /dev/sound on system vol # 0
found /dev/ether on system vol # 0
ether: probing at port 300, mem 000c8000 (irq 5).
ne2000 ethernet card found - 00:40:05:1f:24:b7
swap_size = 36 MB
swap_size = 40 MB
found /dev/scsiprobe on system vol # 0
found /dev/scsiprobe on system vol # 0
found /dev/scsiprobe on system vol # 0
found /dev/tty on system vol # 0
READ:this dir block looks really bad 3a8228
ref=00000000
swap_size = 44 MB
found /dev/tty on system vol # 0
Flushing filesystems
fsunmount(0): file swap still open!
SolidState, is your hdd without errors?
Can you do a surface check in the disk/partition manager?
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Glad I have company in here lol. I’ve successfully upgraded to bootrom 3.2. Booting and hitting F1 to go to boot menu, I can see burned CDs for r3, r4, and r5pro, but all will hang at different points. I switched out the IDE drive for an 80mb SCSI one.
With BeOS, you have 3 options, but I think only 2 of them are available, depending on platform.
- Master boot record
- Apple partition map
- Raw BFS
I think the 2nd option is only really applicable to Mac’s, and I don’t believe I have ever seen it work on the other supported platforms.
The first one would be a standard PC style MBR layout. You need to create the partition table and allocate at least one partition using some/all of the remaining space.
The final is using the drive to write a raw partition. This is just BFS raw on the drive. I think the installer does this if you don’t set up a partition scheme and you tell it to use the drive. It’s fine if you want only one partition, but not if you want more than one partition.
I’d suggest using MBR. You can even set up the drive in any PC using whatever software you want to partition it. So long as it is set up with at least one partition that is (I forget the right term) “not extended”. (When BeOS formats the partition it will set the correct partition type, so it doesn’t matter what your program sets it to.)
I think with MBR you can have up to 4 “basic” partitions and then you need to use an extended format. It might work, but I would suggest just setting up one partition in standard MBR, maybe make it circa 8GiB, and see how that fares. Ultimately, you want to get it to boot. You should not need a bootloader or anything like that. The BeBox will just look for BFS partitions and will boot the first one if finds with a valid kernel.joe. (You would set the boot partition in BeOS using the “boot” preference, or by entering the boot menu to override.)
I can probably make you a BFS partition, but as I only have Mac’s now, I realised it might not be of any use, because it would be in Apple format. We can try it though… I don’t know if the BeBox can boot from an Apple partition map. If we can get you a raw partition, that is probably what you need.
Another instance of kernel messages using funny slang… I should really try to get into BeOS more, seems like it’d be fun to mess around in 
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I’m sure this won’t be helpful, but this is my Umax booting.
Umax boot log
BeOS Bootstrap for Macintosh
Jun 6 1999 05:01:42
Copyright (C) 1991-97 Be Incorporated. All Rights Reserved
msr=0000b030 hid0=0010c001 pvr=00070201
NVRAM Found: addr/data f3060000
Configured boot device is ‘/dev/disk/ide/ata/0/slave/0/raw’, session 0, partition 5
Examining disks…
Trying to find BeOS partitions…
IDE – try_module: busses/ide/genericpci/v0.6 has no busses
IDE MAC: openfirmware device ATA doesn’t have a ‘AAPL,interrupt’ property. Assuming Ohare…
IDE MAC – create_dma_table_area: couldn’t create dma table area
IDE MAC – find_devices: disable dma
Mac IDE: bus 0, regs 00020000 int 13, dma channel 11
IDE ATA – control: unknown ioctl 0x000027d7
IDE ATA – control: unknown ioctl 0x000027d7
Max log buffer == 128k
Checking block bitmap…
Done checking bitmap.
bfs @ 0x284c600 (BeOS) on /dev/disk/ide/ata/0/slave/0/0_5
loading /ide_ata_0_slave_0_0_5/beos/system/kernel_mac (/ide_ata_0_slave_0_0_5)
loading section 0 at (phys. = 00003100, virt. = 00003100)
loading section 1 at (phys. = 00087000, virt. = 00087000)
loading section 2 at (phys. = 000d1000, virt. = 000d1000)
loader section, size 00002290 (000d1090 - 000d3320)
0 dependencies
this looks like a dr9 (aka Preview) or newer kernel
loading /ide_ata_0_slave_0_0_5/beos/system/add-ons/kernel/file_systems/bfs (/ide_ata_0_slave_0_0_5)
loading section 0 at (phys. = 000d4000, virt. = 000d4000)
loading section 1 at (phys. = 000fb000, virt. = 000fb000)
loading section 2 at (phys. = 00102000, virt. = 00102000)
loader section, size 00000588 (00102090 - 00102618)
1 dependencies
loading /ide_ata_0_slave_0_0_5/beos/system/kernel_mac (/ide_ata_0_slave_0_0_5)
already loaded
START(000568a4, 0008f000)
adding kinfo = 000d1000, fsinfo = 00102000
brkval = 00103000
read driver settings from /ide_ata_0_slave_0_0_5
sample is a directory
Found boot volume. Booting the BeOS kernel…
Booting from device: /dev/disk/ide/ata/0/slave/0/0_5 (to 0008b8d0)
Be PowerPC Kernel version of May 26 2000 time 14:57:27
(C) Copyright 1991-97 Be, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Processor: PowerPC 603ev, revision 0x0201, at 180MHz, on 40MHz bus
MONOPROCESSOR mode
05000000 bytes of RAM (80 MBytes)
Mac motherboard
dma NOT coherent with respect to CPU cache.
NTHREADS = 4096, NTEAMS = 1024, NSEMS = 16384
NAREAS = 8192
NPORTS = 4096, MAXMSGS = 8192, MAXBUFS = 8192
hack_load_cont(000d1000, /boot/beos/system/kernel_mac)
3 sections
hack_load_cont(00102000, /boot/beos/system/add-ons/kernel/file_systems/bfs)
3 sections
hack_load_cont(000d1000, KERNEL)
addr = 00003000, size = 00084000, name = kernel_mac_text
addr = 00087000, size = 0004a000, name = kernel_mac_data
addr = 000d1000, size = 00003000, name = kernel_mac_reloc
addr = 000d4000, size = 00027000, name = bfs_text
addr = 000fb000, size = 00007000, name = bfs_data
addr = 00102000, size = 00001000, name = bfs_reloc
kheap: addr 00103000, size 00017000
vheap: addr 04eb0000, size 00140000
BAT: map (0) 10000000, 8000000 (physical_ram) 3
platform_map_pci_bus: bus 0, B4: addr=f2800000 data=f2c00000 isa=f2000000
platform_map_pci_bus: bus 0, after: addr=18101000 data=18102000 isa=18103000
platform_init_vm: got here cpu_num = 1…
flo_init: looking for swim3 devtree node๚IDE MAC: openfirmware device ATA doesn’t have a ‘AAPL,interrupt’ property. A
ssuming Ohare…
Mac IDE: bus 0, regs 00020000 int 13, dma channel 11
IDE – try_module: busses/ide/genericpci/v0.6 has no busses
IDE ATA – configure_device: drive dma mode: 0x02
IDE ATA – configure_device: drive dma mode: 0x02
IDE MAC: openfirmware device ATA doesn’t have a ‘AAPL,interrupt’ property. Assuming Ohare…
Mac IDE: bus 0, regs 00020000 int 13, dma channel 11
IDE – try_module: busses/ide/genericpci/v0.6 has no busses
kb_mouse driver starting6UE%๕%UฅB�มแลแลษๅมม`
cudaprobe is done!
adbprobe: done!
disable irq 18
Device id 2, handler 05 kept at id 2
Device id 3, handler 01 kept at id 3
adbprobe: done!
kb_mouse: INIT (built @ May 26 2000 14:04:33)
adb keyboard @ 2 : unknown type 5
1 keyboards found
U[2]Couldn’t promote to extended protocol
adb mouse @ 3: type 2 200 dpi, 1 buttons
kb_mouse_uninit
MESH SCSI: id e2, regs f3010000 int 12, dma-regs f3008000 dma-int 0
scsi_cam: ccb_pool_size = 32
scsi_cam: path=0, devcount=8
scsi_cam: module ‘busses/scsi/mesh/v1’ loaded
scsi_cam: module ‘busses/scsi/mesh/v1’ initializedสscsi_cam: path 0 slack…
�scsi_cam: path 0 slack…
vga_uninit_driver()
IDE MAC: openfirmware device ATA doesn’t have a ‘AAPL,interrupt’ property. Assuming Ohare…
Mac IDE: bus 0, regs 00020000 int 13, dma channel 11
IDE – try_module: busses/ide/genericpci/v0.6 has no busses
IDE ATA – configure_device: drive dma mode: 0x02
IDE MAC: openfirmware device ATA doesn’t have a ‘AAPL,interrupt’ property. Assuming Ohare…
Mac IDE: bus 0, regs 00020000 int 13, dma channel 11
IDE – try_module: busses/ide/genericpci/v0.6 has no busses
IDE ATA – configure_device: drive dma mode: 0x02
Max log buffer == 128k
Checking block bitmap…
Done checking bitmap.
bfs @ 0x1d71f0 (BeOS) on /dev/disk/ide/ata/0/slave/0/0_5
swap size: 1244MB
setting vnid 0x200005 (bi@ 0x77a6a8) to be UN-CACHED
Starting /boot/beos/bin/sh /boot/beos/system/boot/Bootscript
clockconfig: No timezone setting.
vga_init_driver()
base_registers (0x00a7a388) points to 24 bytes of memory
re: base_registers[] - index: 6, vga_count * 6: 6
VGA_MAP_MAP_NTH(0) out of 2
BAT: map (1) 19000000, 1000000 (pci_bus0_dev13_func0_reg0) 5
trying to set 0x00117adc to 0x19000000 + 0x00000000
create_pci_area: pci_bus0_dev13_func0_reg0 mapping at 0x19000000
returning the mangled pcii info
VGA_MAP_MAP_NTH(1) out of 2
checking for iridium
checking for valkyrie
BAT: map (1) 18500000, 100000 (generic_frame_buffer) 5
VGA_MAP_MAP_NTH(0) out of 2
BAT: map (1) 19000000, 1000000 (pci_bus0_dev13_func0_reg0) 5
trying to set 0x00117adc to 0x19000000 + 0x00000000
create_pci_area: pci_bus0_dev13_func0_reg0 mapping at 0x19000000
returning the mangled pcii info
No changes in dir : /boot/beos/etc/fonts/ttfonts
No changes in dir : /boot/home/config/fonts/ttfonts
No changes in dir : /boot/home/config/fonts/psfonts
No changes in dir : /boot/beos/etc/fonts/ttfonts
No changes in dir : /boot/home/config/fonts/ttfonts
No changes in dir : /boot/home/config/fonts/psfonts
opening match file for /boot/beos/system/lib/libbe.so
_ReservedDragger1__8BDraggerFv patched to DragBitmap__8BDraggerFP6BPointP12drawing_mode
_ReservedSlider1__7BSliderFv patched to SetOrientation__7BSliderF11orientation
_ReservedSlider2__7BSliderFv patched to SetBarThickness__7BSliderFf
_ReservedSlider3__7BSliderFv patched to SetFont__7BSliderFPC5BFontUl
_ReservedHandler1__8BHandlerFv patched to SendNotices__8BHandlerFUlPC8BMessage
5 pair(s) found
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input_server: clone_area() error!
input_server: load_add_on(screen_saver) success
input_server: instantiating filter screen_saver
input_server: get_image_symbol(screen_saver.xMAP) of instantiate_input_filter failed!
input_server: unload_add_on(screen_saver.xMAP)
input_server: load_add_on(screen_saver.xMAP) failed
input_server: load_add_on(keyboard) success
input_server: instantiating device keyboard
input_server: StartMonitoringDevice input/keyboard/usb
input_server: watch_node → B_WATCH_DIRECTORY
kb_mouse: INIT (built @ May 26 2000 14:04:33)
kb_mouse open
input_server: registering device ADB Keyboard 1 80018778 from keyboard
input_server: get_image_symbol(keyboard.xMAP) of instantiate_input_device failed!
input_server: unload_add_on(keyboard.xMAP)
input_server: load_add_on(keyboard.xMAP) failed
input_server: load_add_on(mouse) success
input_server: instantiating device mouse
input_server: StartMonitoringDevice input/mouse/usb
input_server: watch_node → B_WATCH_DIRECTORY
kb_mouse open
input_server: registering device ADB Mouse 0 80018b50 from mouse
input_server: get_image_symbol(mouse.xMAP) of instantiate_input_device failed!
input_server: unload_add_on(mouse.xMAP)
input_server: load_add_on(mouse.xMAP) failed
input_server: load_add_on(serial_mouse) success
input_server: instantiating device serial_mouse
scc8530: init_driv๕ชจ(ค,ญ)Kอมกๅออมลอมษม@regs virt 18126020 int 15บชจ(ค,ญIKอมกๅออมลอมมม@regs virt 18126000 int 16
scc8530: init_drivuชจ(ค,ญ)Kอมกๅออมลอมษม@regs virt 18126020 int 15บชจ(ค,ญIKอมกๅออมลอมมมไegs virt 18126000 int 16
scc8530: init_drivo55กต้ษอมกๅออมลอมษมไegs virt 18126020 int 15บชจ(ค,ญIKอมกๅออมลอมมมไegs virt 18126000 int 16
input_server: get_image_symbol(serial_mouse.xMAP) of instantiate_input_device failed!
input_server: unload_add_on(serial_mouse.xMAP)
input_server: load_add_on(serial_mouse.xMAP) failed
input_server: starting device ADB Mouse (0) in mouse
input_server: starting device ADB Keyboard (1) in keyboard
opening match file for /boot/beos/system/lib/libtracker.so
__vt__11AboutWindow patched to __vt__Q28BPrivate11AboutWindow
1 pair(s) found
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IDE ATA – configure_device: drive dma mode: 0x02
Instantiate__17ProcessControllerFP8BMessage not found in /boot/beos/system/lib/libbe.so
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Instantiate__17ProcessControllerFP8BMessage not found in /boot/beos/system/lib/libtracker.so
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_ReservedHandler1__8BHandlerFv not found in /boot/beos/system/lib/libbe.so
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IDE ATA – control: unknown ioctl 0x000027d7
_ReservedHandler1__8BHandlerFv not found in /boot/beos/system/lib/libbe.so
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IDE ATA – control: unknown ioctl 0x000027d7
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initialize_after not found in /boot/beos/system/lib/libtracker.so
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etherpci: init_driver init_driver: etherpci not found
IDE ATA – control: unknown ioctl 0x000027d7
TLan: init_driver()
IDE ATA – control: unknown ioctl 0x000027d7
TLan: TLan not found
tulip: init_driver tulip Dec21140 found at IRQ 19 tulip: publish_devices()
tulip: init_driver tulip Dec21140 found at IRQ 19 parse_eeprom: Dec Ethernet data =
0x46, 0x26, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0x6b, 0x00, 0x03, 0x01, 0x00, 0xc0, 0xf0, 0x30, 0xb0, 0x8f, 0x00, 0x1e, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x08,
0x00, 0x01, 0x8c, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x78, 0xe0, 0x01, 0x00, 0x50, 0x00, 0x18, 0x00,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x4b, 0x35, 0x97, 0xdb,
parse_eeprom: default 800 media Powerup Dynamic AutoSense with 1 leaf media
Dec21140 found: irq 25 ioaddr 18b7e000 ethernet address 00:c0:f0:30:b0:8f
initialize_after not found in /boot/beos/system/lib/libbe.so
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terminate_before not found in /boot/beos/system/lib/libbe.so
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IDE ATA – control: unknown ioctl 0x000027d7
initialize_after not found in /boot/beos/system/lib/libbe.so
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IDE ATA – control: unknown ioctl 0x000027d7
initialize_after not found in /boot/beos/system/lib/libbe.so
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terminate_before not found in /boot/beos/system/lib/libbe.so
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initialize_after not found in /boot/beos/system/lib/libbe.so
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initialize_after not found in /boot/beos/system/lib/libbe.so
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terminate_before not found in /boot/beos/system/lib/libbe.so
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terminate_before not found in /boot/beos/system/lib/libbe.so
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Max log buffer == 128k
Checking block bitmap…
Done checking bitmap.
bfs @ 0xec5050 (PR2) on /dev/disk/ide/ata/0/master/0/0_5
Max log buffer == 128k
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bfs @ 0x105bd58 (R3) on /dev/disk/ide/ata/0/master/0/0_6
Success! The solution wasn’t that complicated in the end 
I tried the various BIOS ROM versions and only had luck with R3.2. I also found only R3 would recognize the IDE device on the disk scan. I was using a 64G CF for the disk and @cocobean mentioned that might be an issue. The biggest HDDs of that era were around 9G so I decided to try a smaller partition.
When installing the OS on a 60G partition it was skipping a step at the end to set that partition as the boot device. I dropped the partition down to 8G and got the option at the end of the install. I was now able to set the 8G partition as the boot device and problem solved (the other 52G is set up as another BFS partition).
Thanks everyone for the help!
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