Boot screen (and process) freezes on ASPIRE and VAIO

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Greetings:

I have HAIKU R1 ALPHA 2 on a USB.

However, it fails to boot on both my ACER Aspire and SONY Vaio.

The boot screen comes up…the first three icons eventually highlight. Then the process freezes. Nothing further occurs. I need to force a shutdown…at which point the PANIC screen comes up stating that it is unable to find a boot partition.

I searched the bug report database. Seems there are lots of issues with these two brands of computers dealing with Wi-Fi. But it also see,s they all booted from CD…not USB.

Any advice appreciated

(Sorry if the info contained herein is not sufficiently technical)

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Could you test with a more recent release, as Alpha 2 is a bit old already.
Try the latest nightly gcc2hybrid release available:

http://haiku-files.org/anyboot/

If latest release still freeze during boot, please file a bug on our Bug Tracker system on http://dev.haiku-os.org. Give as much information as you can in your bug report. Any blocker bug is considered as top priority by core developers, but they needs as much hints as possible to be able to fix it sooner than later.

Thanks.

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I found the opposite works for me. Latest Haikus will not boot from USBs for me but Alpha1 does. I booted with Alpha1 then use it to install a later version onto the hard drive. Because of these problems I in-fact now keep multiple boot partitions on the drive, Alpha1, Alpha2 and the latest nightly, all three take up less than 2GB. The fourth partition (the bulk of the drive is size) is also bootable but is mainly for data. Makes life a lot better

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I have a viao and it froze to start it holding shift to go in safe mode and disable icp not to sure but just look at the description and check the one that says disable all core of your cpu adn only use one.