osx86 hibernate problems

Specifically addressing an issue that occasionally arises on my eeePC running OSX 10.6 Snowleopard: it tries to start from a hibernate image (i.e. the screen shows a greyed-out image of the Mac desktop with a segmented progress bar along the bottom) - which never completes restoring & freezes at some point near the end.

The quick solution: boot in safe mode (just like a real Mac - hold the shift key until the silver screen with your disks in the center appears). You can type commands at this point which are arguments to the Chamelon boot loader: in this case try:

WakeImage=(name of a non-existant file) - then hit return

You should now have booted normally...

Longer-term solution: conce you can startup and login normally, the following commands in a terminal:

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage

i.e turn hibernation off (should still sleep OK on lib close etc) and also free disk space by deleting the hibernation image file (roughly the size of your RAM).