This might be a similar problem to what's happening on MacBookPro's. When booting from a real parition, the error encountered is: PANIC: page fault, but interrupts were disabled Touching address 0xccccccd8 from eip 0x800490a1. Welcome to Kernel Debugging Land... Thread 7 "page writer" running on CPU0 This happens after the 4th boot icon, and neither the built in keyboard or an external USB keyboard are recognised (hence, no way to type "bt"). Unfortunately, there is nothing in the syslog (verified via Zeta running under VMFusion, which can access the real hard disk partition. The real partition has Haiku, r28464). There is an open ticket for this (http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1599), so the problem may be related (missing chipset id in ahci.c. Chris, any luck with your MacBook bounty? On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Matt <laceysnr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You should be able to mount BFS partitions read-only from Linux (file > > system name "befs"), too, if that helps. > > > > Ah, sounds like the way forward, I'll get whatever info I can and get > back to you! > > Matt > >