Heloow, I know is overkill to run it on this laptop but wanted to attempt a dual boot, but for some reason the USB doesn’t boot, it just shows the Haiku loading screen but it doesn’t even load the kernel, I tried pressing shift but nothing happens it just reboots. Has anyone experience the same?
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Damn, that’s a nice machine …
I’d start by checking the BIOS and see if USB booting is enabled there.
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USB booting is clearly enabled, otherwise it would never jhave gotten to render the images.
Are you using a nightly image or a beta build?
If you mean it shows the logo and icons but none light up, then try a nightly build; this might be one of the bugs that was fixed since the beta.
Yeah I’m actually distro-hopping so I have installed Linux many times. They use EFI for booting
I used first the initial download link from the site, and now I just tried the nightly build and it has the same issue. I also confirmed that the USB boots normally in other laptops.
With some hardware, you’ll have to make sure USB keyboards are enabled in the BIOS.
On computers that use UEFI for booting instead of the classic BIOS, you need to use the SPACEBAR instead of SHIFT.
Thank you, actually this UEFI is barebones, it only has options for the secure mode and boot order and no other configurations. I finally managed to get into the boot options, the time window to press the space bar is “too” short or maybe I need more coffee but I managed to get in. I disabled SMP and it finally loads up until the rocket but then it reboots, I tried fail safe video among other options but no changes, should I open a ticket for this?
UPDATE:
So I’m checking the syslog, the one inside the usb is not the same as the screen log, the last message before rebooting said this:
mmc_disk: CALLED float mmc_disk_supports_device(device_node*)
mmc_disk: could not get device type
I just read the October report and this drew my attention:
waddlesplash did some refactors and cleanups to the early boot memory allocation code in the kernel, fixing the boot on some systems with large amounts of RAM (or systems with unusual memory layouts.
This system does have 32GB of memory … 
although I don’t know if this is considered “large amounts of RAM” this days
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