if the bootloader is interupted (by pressing the space bar) haiku is rebooting.

[kaoutsis@…]

if the bootloader is interupted (by pressing the space bar) to enter the bootloader menu, even if no changes made to the menu, after some disk activity (for about 2-3 sec) at the same time, the screen shows the logo, haiku is rebooting.

note that the bootvolume name has been discover successfullly.

[axeld]

Could you give at least *a bit* of additional information? Since it sure doesn't do this over here, I can't do anything with this bug description. Information needed would be: a) does Haiku boot successfully if you don't press the <spacebar>? b) at what point are you pressing that key? Is the logo already visible at that point? Or do you enter the boot menu without any problems, and just further booting from there doesn't work? c) what revision are you testing with? Did it always happen for you or did it started some time ago? d) what hardware are you testing with? Motherboard, IDE-Controller, HDs, RAM, BIOS version, CPU, etc. could all be useful.

Thanks.

[kaoutsis@…]

Axel, thanks for your attention. After your guidelines

here are some answers: a)Yes, Haiku does boot successfully if i don't press the <spacebar>. b)The logo is not already visible at that point :) (Believe me, i press it, in time). I enter the boot menu without any problems, ( i may also change the default settings e.g checking the save mode options etc), and just further booting from there (with or without modifications to the boot menu) after some hard disk activity for about 2-3 and while a see the logo the system is rebooting. c) This problem did always happen for me, from the first time (3-4 months before) i start playing around with this machine (see bellow for details) and i know that the problem is specific for this machine since i have also a laptop and the problem does not occur. d) Some informations i gather for the machine: Processor Intel Pentim MMX 233 MHz System Buses ISA(16-bit), PCI(32-bit) System Bios Award 4.51 PG System Mainboard BIOSTAR Group (M5ATA) System Chipset Acer Labs Incorporated ALI M1531 ISA Bus ALI M1533 IDE Controller ALI M5229

RAM 104MB L2 External Cache 512 kB

ATA DISK drive ST34321A 8404830 sectors (4303 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=523/255/63

CD/W drive TEAC CD-W540E

DVD-ROM drive SONY DDU1622

Isa Sound Card Creative ViBRA16C PnP Video Adapter ATI Rage II+ PCI (ati_m64)

and finally e) the same problem occurs to this machine when i created and a second partition with haiku installed.

that's all for now.

[axeld]

Thanks for the info! While I haven't got a good idea what could cause this, this will definitely be helpful.

[olivier.coursiere@…]

Oh ! My laptop experience this problem too... So, i answer the four questions too :

a) Yes, Haiku does boot successfully if i don't press the <spacebar>.

b) I press the <spacebar> just after pressing the <spacebar> in bootman. This machine is quite fast (at least from a beos point of view) : if you wait too much, Haiku will boot directly.

c) i use the lattest trunk from svn to compile haiku. I think (but unfortunately not sure) that haiku was not rebooting in this case about six months ago. But Haiku was not booting well on this machine too. That explain why i have tried the boot menu at that time.

d) Here some hardware informations :

ACER Aspire 1510

AMD 64 2200 Mhz Floppy drive : None (could it be related to this ? as this is the most "exotic" feature used in this machine)

RAM : 512 Mo CACHE L2 : 1024 kb

HDD Model Name : IC25N080ATMR04-0 (80 Go) Hitachi TravelStar ATAPI device : MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ-820S System bios version : S3A29 (PhoenixBIOS) VGA BIOS version : nVidia 04.36.20.33.D4 KBC version : 1A32

As it is a laptop (with fixed hardware), more details could be found using Google.

[oco]

The problem is fixed for my laptop (tested with revision 18909)