I kind of want to install NextStep on my Pentium MMX system with my Stealth 64 (the one with the Trio64 chip) to see if I can replicate your issue. I just don't know if I have time for it.

Thank you...I wonder if your motherboard is based on the same chipset as mine and what would be the results with trio64v+

It has an Intel 430VX chipset (Triton III). Hard to say if I'll see the same issue.

I am curious to see...

I swear, I've never seen such a finicky installer. It didn't work on my Pentium MMX at all (it wouldn't read from the optical disk drives no matter how I configured the arrangements of drives [although the Pentium system has its own quirks]).

I'm finally getting it installed on a Pentium 4 with the Trio64 video card installed. I had to set the partition size to 512MB just to start moving files over from the optical drive. I'll migrate over to the Pentium MMX system once I have a working OS on the SD card.

Nice,I also had a problem installing it.( I first set cd rom ide to 1:0 and disk 1,2gb to 0:0).

For drivers,I didn't load anything from device drivers disk,I inserted beta drivers disk and first I chose "adaptec 154x series scsi adapter"(Only by choosing that first worked,strange) and then "primary/secondary dual controller device driver"(by hitting 7) and then continue.

OK, so I got a blank screen once I installed the drivers for the Stealth 64 DRAM on the Pentium 4. The system gave a kernel panic when I booted into verbose mode. I don't know how to boot into basic VGA mode now that I set the system to use the Trio64 driver.

I wonder if the Trio64 is just a bit of a dud in NextStep. I'm going to reinstall NextStep on my Pentium 4 with a Cirrus Logic PCI card (GD5446) instead and see if it works better.

When you normal-boot ,does the blank screen appeared after nextstep booting window or after pressing enter on boot:?

Also does Config=Default helps?

I got an error message when I enter Config=default (something about a missing configuration file).

Yes, it went blank after proceeding from the Boot: prompt.

Boy, I've tried three different PCI cards, and none of them have worked beyond BW VGA. I'm out of time to troubleshoot. Maybe I can try again next week.

I always remember trouble getting color modes working with NeXTStep 3.3 on PC hardware.
OpenStep 4.2 with Patch 4 has a generic VESA driver that is easier to get working.

If you haven't already, make sure you have NeXTStep 3.3 Patch 3 installed.

fosterwj03 wrote on 2024-09-22, 00:11:

Boy, I've tried three different PCI cards, and none of them have worked beyond BW VGA. I'm out of time to troubleshoot. Maybe I can try again next week.

Yes,unfortunately is very selective about the hardware will run on.Anyway,thanks for trying.

akimmet wrote on 2024-09-22, 02:13:

I always remember trouble getting color modes working with NeXTStep 3.3 on PC hardware.
OpenStep 4.2 with Patch 4 has a generic VESA driver that is easier to get working.

If you haven't already, make sure you have NeXTStep 3.3 Patch 3 installed.

Ok,I am going to try this out.

I made several attempts to install nextstep on different machines. The only one that gave me no kernel panic at installation has a et4000w32 onboard. the et4000 driver does work in 1024x768 but only b/w...is there an updated et4000/w32 driver and if so how to install an additional driver? thx!