I can't install Haiku

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Hello
I have tried to install Haiku from a USB pendrive, but it stays on the screen showing the logo and icons, with none of them lighting up. It doesn’t respond to any keys and I can’t do anything.
My computer is an ASUS D940MX.
Thanks in advance.

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You could try booting into safe video mode: Boot Loader

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Yes, I tried that option (safe boot). Nothing.

Thanks, Begasus.

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Can you enable debug mode and start then tell us where it “stops” Screenshot

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Hi Paradoxon

How do I activate debug mode? In the BIOS I don’t have any option like that. And the flash drive with Haiku boots directly to the Haiku screen, where the installation stops and does not respond to any key.

I have tried to install Haiku both on my ASUS computer and on an iMac, with identical result: it does not install.

Thanks so much.

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Press space bar after booting fromt he stick have startet. There are the boot options.

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Thank you Delldorin.

The startup stops with the following message:

PackageVolumeInfo: Load01dStates(): failed to open administrative directory: No such file or directory.

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The administrative folder is here: /boot/system/packages/administrative

Sound like the image of your haiku system are broken. Is it a nightly or beta3?

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it’s beta3, downloaded from Get Haiku! | Haiku Project

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I burned the iso with balenaEtcher in Linux on a pendrive.

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Sounds like a problem like this: #17369 (Nightly build hangs at boot) – Haiku (haiku-os.org)

But on the beta i never hear of this problem. @PulkoMandy can you help out here?

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Thats not the real reason for the hang. Try to boot a nightly image.

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I downloaded hrev55993 nightly image and had the same problem.

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Did you enabled all save options?
Can you try it different use port?
Sounds to me like didn’t recognize the Haiku USB drive? But I can wrong :).

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I do not have any option to save the selected options. For example, after selecting safe mode, I will continue with the boot.

I cannot select a different port. I only have Display Port cable, not HDMI.

I don’t think it doesn’t recognize the flash drive because I get the options and in the safe mode menu, under the option to disable components, the directory structure, etc. appears.

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I would try a different USB stick, for unknown reasons some combinations of PC+USB port+stick do not work well together

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I have tested with two pendrives, one with the Beta3 and the other with a nightly image. Both have failed.

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USB port was meant, did you try another USB port?

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Hi korli

Yes. I got the same result.

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The bootloader menu works before any driver is loaded.