[haiku] Re: Gsoc 2014 Introduction

  • From: Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 17:15:03 +0000

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 09:38:47AM -0700, Luposian wrote:
> Speaking of which... I tried downloading the latest nightly of Haiku x86-64, 
> a week ago, and the CD won't load and the raw image does the same. It gets to 
> the last icon, the screen goes black (like it's going to go to the desktop), 
> and then the monitor acts like the system rebooted (both VGA and DVI prompts 
> appear).  Nothing more.  I have to hit the reset button or power off the 
> computer.
> 
> If I go into safe mode, and just disable both APICs (nothing else), the 
> system hangs forever at the disk/leaf icon. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone 5c.

Can you log the console output?  This is where real hardware serial ports come 
in awfully handy (good old HP DC7900s).

When I had this problem it was because the Intel graphics driver was setting my 
monitor to an implausible mode.  Have you tried setting a safe mode resolution?

-- 
Gordonjcp MM0YEQ

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