MDR - Troubleshooting the Zeta boot up

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MDR - Troubleshooting the Boot Process

If you have trouble booting after you've installed Zeta, or if your monitor refuses to display in color, you should try to boot the OS in Safe mode or Use fail-safe video mode.

Safe Mode Options
If you for one reason or another can't boot in to Zeta, you should try to reboot your computer and press the spacebar as soon as you see the Zeta splash screen. The Boot Loader screen will then appear.

Select Select safe mode options, and press Enter. You will then enter the Safe Mode menu.

The first time you should select Safe Mode, as this option will automatically enable all other options as well. By choosing this option, you will determine if Zeta will boot at all. You can then later return to the Safe Mode menu and select the individual options to determine more exactly what your problem is (In other words, the aim is to boot with as few Safe Mode options as possible).

In Safe Mode Zeta will as default display monochrome gray.

Fail-safe Video Mode
If your screen only displays monochrome gray, there is a chance that you have an unsupported graphic card or chipset (or else you are running in Safe Mode). To get colors to the screen, you might want to run Zeta in VESA mode. To do so, go into the Boot Loader, and choose Select fail-safe video mode.

A list of screen resolution will then appear, and you should pick one that's reasonable for your monitor - probably between 800x600x15 and 1024x768x16 (width x height x bits per pixel). The higher resolution you choose, the slower your system gets.

After you have selected a screen resolution, return to the main Boot Loader menu and continue booting. The result is slower than it would be if Zeta had the needed driver installed, but it's faster than if you were running in grayscale, and you'll probably like it better.

One last solution is to look after a driver at http://www.bebits.com.

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