[haiku-bugs] [Haiku] #9465: booting alpha4.1 on iMac -- mouse is frozen
- From: "KantosKan" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:36:10 -0000
#9465: booting alpha4.1 on iMac -- mouse is frozen
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Reporter: KantosKan | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: - General | Version: R1/alpha4.1
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: All |
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After installing alpha 4.1 over alpha 2 on my iMac, the mouse would freeze
when booting, even in safe mode. It would freeze at the point where the
Tracker or Deskbar is launched. If I commented out the lines from
Bootscript launching the tracker and deskbar, and launched terminal
instead, I could look around using the terminal. I finally got it to
boot, as follows, but I don't know if it is reliably repeatable.
1. boot from the installer CD, holding shift key. When the safe mode
window comes up, choose "select safe mode options". Of these choose the
1st (safe mode) and the 4th (fail safe video). Then boot into the desktop
from the CD.
2. the problem seems to be with virtual memory. Whenever it won't boot
from the hard drive, and I reboot from the CD, virtual memory is always
maxed out, asking for a humungous swap file. Open the virtual memory
preferences, and turn off "choose swap size automatically". Move the
slider to select a small swap file size.
3. Open hard disk/system/boot/Bootscript using Pe. Comment out every line
that says
if (SafeMode != 'yes') then
and comment out the matching fi.
Do the same for hard disk/system/boot/SetupEnvironment.
This is in case you need to reboot using safe mode.
4. Reboot, this time from the hard disk. Hold shift key. When the safe
mode window comes up, choose "select safe mode options". Then only choose
"fail safe video" out of the options. Continue booting. If it doesn't
boot, check the virtual memory prefs, and try again. Sometimes the second
attempt will boot, even if the first one doesn't. If it still doesn't
work, try again, this time choosing "safe mode" and "fail safe video" out
of the list of options. I can't get it to boot without choosing "fail safe
video", even tho Haiku understands the video card perfectly well.
5. After getting it to work, I made the mistake of shutting down and
powering off. The next day it wouldn't reboot. Eventually I got it working
again, using the above method.
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