I am have been using Haiku on and off for over 10 years and some BeOS experience over 25 years ago. I mostly run in a VM and occasionally, I try to boot off a USB into the latest beta for both 64 and 32 bit versions.
I get stuck at the loading screen image and none of the components light up and it hangs. I have tried to run safe mode and change settings in the bootloader.
I may be wishful thinking but I am booting off an USB 3 port on a machine with an AMD CPU 7900X on an AM5 board with 64gb of RAM and a 7900XTX GPU.
Any idea what I can do and what steps I can take including and not limited to a log or capture where it hangs in verbose mode?
Thank you in advance for feedback.
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Hi @makedigital5, I believe you know how to enter to boot option during boot by pressing SHIFT key, then you can try the following:
- If you have USB 2 ports, you can try booting from one of them.
- If your GPU is detected as AMD one, but its driver for some reason does not work, you can select safe video mode.
- You can limit RAM to 4 GB.
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You mention using the latest betaā¦ maybe try with the newest nightly image and see if that helps?
If you can change boot mode in your machineā¦ try using BIOS/Legacy/CSM boot vs UEFI.
I had a netbook where at some point I could only boot in BIOS mode (with older betas), and not always even (had to disable SMP for it to boot reliably too).
I even had one machine that only booted from one of the two USB ports (once booted, both ports worked just fine).
If boot issue persistsā¦ filing a bug under https://dev.haiku-os.org/ might be your best option (hereās the Reporting bugs guide, just in case).
Good luck!
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I downloaded the latest build from a few days ago and tried to boot normally with on-screen debugging. I received an error of āFailed to acquire spinlockā. I also tried enabling safe mode.