AMD AM5 - Booting Issues

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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 beta… maybe try with the newest nightly image and see if that helps?

If you can change boot mode in your machine… 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 persists… filing a bug under https://dev.haiku-os.org/ might be your best option (here’s 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 “Failed to acquire spinlock”. I also tried enabling safe mode.

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Anyone have any further feedback on this one?

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Try to enable both “Enable on screen debug output” and “Disable on screen paging”.

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I have a similar setup (using an 8700G without extra graphics card). I could not boot Haiku over USB.
However, I installed it from a VM onto an internal NVMe disk, and I can then boot from that one directly on bare metal.

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Sorry for the delay in responding. I tried this and have not had success in booting on bare metal. I need to try different scenarios in adjusting the settings.

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This worked for me to get it installed and I copied over the Haiku EFI boot contents.

I get the loading screen but none of the icons light up for me now. Attempts to do a verbose mode or debug log doesn’t show, only this screen. Please see images because I am not sure how to access the log to copy the text.

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If this is the beta, please try with a nightly build.

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Thank you for the suggestion and chiming in. Not sure why I didn’t think of that before. Here is the result of replacing the OS partition and boot partition with the nightly build available yesterday, haiku-master-hrev59052-x86_64-anyboot.

Here is a picture of the result. This is where things stop. I do see some of the icons to light up on the boot screen

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This message is somewhat expected if you have on-screen debug output with paging enabled and SMP enabled. Either disable paging (or on-screen debug output altogether), or just type co at the prompt and hit some key quickly to get past it when it happens.