MacBookPro8,1 always ending up in KDL showing some cache/font related error

[fabianmu]

Using: Refind with the haiku-r1beta3-x86_64-anyboot.iso Ram: 4GB Disk: SSD Disk

Used etcher to flash it to USB (tried 2 sticks) Booting with: "Use fail-safe graphics driver" (Does show glitches otherwise, the mac has an Intel HD Graphics 3000)

It gets to show the Desktop, mouse cursor works but before Tracker or Deskbar are shown it exits into KDL with the attached error messages.

I also tried all other safe-mode options, some made it fail even earlier.

It once loaded Deskbar and Tracker and I was able to open the app to partition the SSD. When I clicked to confirm the format, the same KDL happend. However out of ~30 boot attempts I only got that far once.

[fabianmu]

This is the error that happens most of the time

[fabianmu]

This error sometimes shows

[fabianmu]

the error when running DriveSetup to format an existing partition on the build in SSD

[Coldfirex]

Since there are different errors, could this be memory related? Maybe run a memtest?

[korli]

Please type 'syslog' to see errors before the crash. It could be USB related.

[fabianmu]

memtest did not find any errors. They keyboard does not work in KDL, can‘t type in syslog I‘m afraid :/ I can only shutdown the Mac at that point.

[X512]

Maybe memory detection is incorrect and some unusable physical memory range is used as RAM?

[diver]

Enable On screen debug output (maybe together with disable paging if your keyboard doesn' t work) in the bootloader and wathch for errors during the boot, especially for usb related errors.