No Keyboard/Mouse on iMac Boot - Update

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Fri Mar 6 16:12:28 UTC 2009


Gary Larizza wrote:
> Hi All,
> 	I've been tinkering around with it some more.  On boot, I hit
> control+alt+F1 to view the processes starting in the background, and I
> notice that Starting HAL Daemon = FAILED.  Would that be the Hardware
> Abstraction Layer "HAL," and could that be directly related to why nothing
> works after the Login Screen comes up?  I don't know whether to blow away
> the server and try again, try another iMac, or go tinkering into how to
> get the HAL Daemon to start (or, if this is a common error and should be
> disregarded).  I do have several iMacs, and even a Bondi Blue Tray-Loaded
> iMac (which won't netboot because it can't allocate enough memory).  Does
> anyone have any thoughts?
> 

How much RAM do these things have?  There is no chance of it working if 
you have less than 128MB RAM.

Warren




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