[haiku-development] Re: Haiku boot sequence and debugging

  • From: "Euan Kirkhope" <euan.kirkhope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:20:27 +0000

On 18/01/2008, Lengyel Sándor <slengyel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have an amd64 computer with sata drives and usb mouse.
> Installed on sda the newest snapshot.
> If I boot I get the screen, mouse pointer but no tracker.
> If I go to safe mode with logging, after a while I get into the haiku shell.
> Since there are no logs in /var/log I assume that the problem happens before
> the logging is enabled.
> Lot of commands work in the shell, (Like ls, cd) but for more complicated
> commands I get "Cannot initialize global fonts.)
> Since I do not have another computer to  record the boot messages, is there a
> way to use the haiku shell to find out what is wrong.
> (I disabled USB in the bios. The problem still exists)
>
>
Press space bar to get to the boot menu, and select the option to
display debug on the screen.  I get the same issue if USB is enabled
in the BIOS.  Make sure Legacy USB support is also disabled, just in
the rare case that you have usb keyboard or mouse connected and they
still work even with it disabled in bios.

Euan

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