[cristomac24]

Hey,

On Dell EFI 1.1

After my second boot I realized I get the following text appear before the Mini loads into OS X:

Starting hibernate
Hibernate failed
Sleepimage has garbage
Darwin...

I have hibernate disabled in DellEFI, I just checked again.

How can you solve this? Is it a big deal/indication of a problem?

[Eligos]

Try re-installing DellEFi again and rebooting.

[Timmy G]

As far as I know, hibernate won't work on the Dell Minis so just run this:

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

That stopped that msg coming up on my Dell Mini..

[cristomac24]

Thanks for the tip Timmy, but I still got the message anyway.

:S

[grahamgilbert]

In the finder, choose Go -> Go to folder. Type in /var/vm and then trash the sleepimage file in there. It will force OS X to rebuild another (or it will just leave well alone if you have disabled hibernate in the terminal / dellefi).

[r_polz]

Hi cristomac24,

I had this problem too, which prompted me to run diskwarrior. The program found "The Boot Blocks are damaged" but even afterwords I still had the same issue (along with certain un-repairable permissions and the warring about reserve power), so I wiped the SSD drive reformatted and reinstalled from a backup, ran DELFI 1.1 and it hasn't happened again. I guess maybe something got messed up during the initial install (or a bad Block on the Drive?). Anyways, this seems to have worked for me. Good luck (now if I could only stop the white noise problem!!)

P.S I also had hibernate disabled in DellEFI and when that didn't work tried the command line stuff to no permanent avail.

[cristomac24]

grahamgilbert: That worked, thank you!

R_polz: Thanks for the input anyway, appreciated, even if I tried the previous poster's method before yours.

[sketchstudios]

just to double-confirm,

grahamgilbert's technique of trashing the file works. I had this same issue [I think its because I turned on/off hibernate in the BIOS a time or two which can cause a corrupt file in Mac OS X (?).]

Anyway, trash the sleepimage file in /var/vm and empty trash can. then restart. Error will go away.

[flipnduc]

Originally Posted by Timmy G

As far as I know, hibernate won't work on the Dell Minis so just run this:

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

That stopped that msg coming up on my Dell Mini..

[jamrdun]

In the finder, choose Go -> Go to folder. Type in /var/vm and then trash the sleepimage file in there.

I chose grahamgilbert's way. The sleepimage file was a whopping 4GB. Wow! After I restarted, the dang thing froze up before getting to the login screen. Cold boot. Then it started up fine. No error message like before. I checked the sleepimage and it was now 2GB. Still a lot I thought, but after another round, that seems to be as small as I can get it. At least the startup error is gone and I've reclaimed 2GB.

Whoops! Apparently, the thing regenerates and continues to give the error then. Looks like disabling sleep might be the way to go.