Kernel doesn't boot (regression)

[diver]

This is hrev57352 x86_64 on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013) using nightly iso images Chainloading from rEFInd seems to have broken recently.

hrev57303 boots
hrev57352 no icons are lit

[diver]

hrev57342 also boots, so the only suspect is hrev57346.

[Coldfirex]

I experienced this too. hrev57342 worked in my case as well.

[waddlesplash]

I can't actually get Haiku to boot via EFI in VMware even with that commit reverted.

It gets all the way to:

Calling ExitBootServices. So long, EFI!

and then nothing else happens (all icons stay unlit, no serial from kernel.)

CPU usage is at 0% it appears.

Does Haiku boot via EFI in VMware for either of you at any of those hrevs?

[waddlesplash]

Meanwhile, Haiku boots fine via EFI both with and without that commit in QEMU with the EDK firmware. So, there's something else odd going on here...

[waddlesplash]

Perhaps there's some chance davidkaroly might be able to help look into this, as he's worked on the EFI loader not too long ago? I don't know where to even start debugging a kernel/bootloader handoff failure, but if it reliably happens in VMware and serial out works fine there, that seems like it shouldn't be too hard to find things to try.

[davidkaroly]

I have hrev57352 running in VMware, both 32-bit and 64-bit but I'm using BIOS loader.

Also a similar fairly recent version successfully booting up successfully on my 10+y/o Inspiron laptop via EFI loader (chained from grub as described here: ​https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/booting)

I'll also give it a try with qemu (with/without KVM) on Fedora.

[waddlesplash]

For QEMU: did you allocate enough RAM to the VM? Halt at 4th icon may be a symptom of that (serial log should show if it's running out of memory.)

I think #17886 may be related, but it mentions nothing appearing in serial out, whereas I get the full bootloader log in my serial output.

Yes, booting via BIOS on VMware works fine here too.

[X512]

I also tried to run Haiku EFI in Vmware Player and it freezed with black screen before boot splash screen. Works in VirtualBox EFI.

[korli]

​https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/7093

[waddlesplash]

Should be fixed by hrev57368, please retest.

[bruno]

Nice boootloader works on x64 again too. Thanks very much!