Haiku Fails to Boot Past Bootman

[CodeforEvolution]

Good day! I recently upgraded my Dell Optiplex 745 x86_gcc2 Haiku machine with hrev54185 to hrev54266 and found that my screen would go dark after trying to load Haiku from the Bootman boot loader. Luckily, I was able to load my previous "hrev4185" state and could boot back into Haiku. I saw some more dramatic changes recently, so maybe a more recent commit could be the problem?

[waddlesplash]

Can you try replacing the haiku_loader package with the one from hrev54185, and leave the hrev54266 state otherwise intact?

[CodeforEvolution]

No dice unfortunately...I can't even get any on screen debugging information from the boot loader...

[waddlesplash]

You cannot even get to the boot menu? That is extremely strange... I guess you will have to replace the loader package by booting into another Haiku partition or USB drive and try changing it out manually.

[CodeforEvolution]

Whoops, I phrased that incorrectly. To clarify things, what I meant was that I swapped out the Haiku loader package from an older working state and put it directly into the main “packages” folder. I was still able to get into the Haiku boot loader menu, though when I enabled the on-screen system logging option from the boot loader, I’d still be left with a blank screen after selecting “Continue Booting”.

[waddlesplash]

You removed the old haiku_loader package from the directory? That is very strange, then.

I guess you will have to bisect and figure out where things went wrong.

[CodeforEvolution]

Welp, it seems the magic of Haiku has struck me again, my machine works again with hrev54282. So, I guess this can be closed. :)

[waddlesplash]

Well, reopen it if it returns. :)