[oi-dev] [discuss] OpenIndiana Images won't boot on Asus ProArt Laptop

[Stephan Althaus]

On 7/12/25 03:53, Atiq wrote:
> First, huge applauds to the OpenIndiana team for the high quality work 
> they do. ��  Second, apologies, as I have plethora of n00b questions 
> ahead.
>
> *Problem*: System restarts in few seconds; doesn't show BSD boot 
> loader menu!
>
> I have tried 3 image versions from 2025-06 
> (ref,https://dlc.openindiana.aurora-opencloud.org/hipster/isos/hipster/20250606 
> <https://dlc.openindiana.aurora-opencloud.org/hipster/isos/hipster/20250606>)
>
>  *
>
>     gui
>
>  *
>
>     text
>
>  *
>
>     minimal
>
> I am curious what's happening during the boot on this Asus Laptop. I 
> dd them into USB,
>
> |sudo dd bs=4M if=./OI-hipster-gui-20250606.usb of=/dev/sda 
> status=progress && sync|
>
> I restart to enter BIOS. I disable secure boot for OpenIndiana Live 
> Image from USB.
> However, All of them demonstrate the same behavior.
>
>  *
>
>     I enter Boot Menu Options from BIOS pressing F8.
>
>  *
>
>     I select the USB drive with OpenIndiana Image
>
>  *
>
>     It doesn't show anything on screen, 4-5 seconds later system reboots.
>
>  *
>
>     I re-enter to BIOS Boot Menu to see the USB drive is gone. And, it
>     never comes back until I dd the image into usb drive again!
>     (screenshot attached)
>
> 1. What might be the reason it's not even booting into text mode? The 
> Text Mode doesn't require GPU driver. Right?
>
> . BIOS
>
>  *
>
>     doesn't have option to disable HyperThreading
>
>  *
>
>     doesn't have option to disable Virtualization etc. either.
>
> Even though OpenIndiana hardware compatibility list doesn't cover this 
> Notebook / Laptop I am interested how to debug such issues. For 
> example, on Linux during image boot we can press Esc so it shows what 
> it's doing and any error with details it's encouterning.
>
> *Hardware Spec*
>
>  *
>
>     Laptop Model: Asus P16 H7606WV
>
>  *
>
>     CPU: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 w/ Radeon 890M
>
>  *
>
>     iGPU: [AMD/ATI] Strix [Radeon 880M / 890M] (rev c1)
>
>  *
>
>     dGPU: GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q
>
>  *
>
>     System Memory: 32GB
>
>  *
>
>     Display(s): Notebook's Built in Display only (no external display)
>
>  *
>
>     OpenIndiana Image Version: *-20250606.usb
>
> These images do boot fine on an older laptop with Intel CPU so that 
> ensures the image is not corrupt on the USB drive (I confirmed sha256 
> checksum before writing images as well)!
>
> I was wondering if Asus had a way to show boot logs in case of errors. 
> So I posted on sub/r/asus 
> <https://www.reddit.com/r/ASUS/comments/1lu6wby> as well. I haven't 
> found a solution yet.
>
>
> 2. I have grub2 installed on my system (from fedora 42). Is there a 
> way I can load the live boot image from USB drive using manual 
> commands from GRUB?
>
> 3. Since I have Nvidia as discrete GPU, wondering if there is a way I 
> could add the latest nvidia driver for that.
>
> Regarding the screenshots,
>
>  *
>
>     I plan to open an issue onhttps://gitlab.com/asus-linux/asusctl
>     <https://gitlab.com/asus-linux/asusctl>regarding the device
>     touching the USB live image as the boot fails (after first boot
>     attempt it never appears again on Boot Menu), live image on USB
>     drive becomes corrupt / unbootable as soon as the system restarts
>     (found by trying to boot an old machine with that).
>
>  *
>
>     Fedora is an installation on Internal HDD, not from external USB
>
>
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Hi!

Just to be 100% shure, you use bs=4M, have you verified it does not 
truncate the image on the stick ?
There are options to dd to ensure that.

You might want to give the latest 2024.10 text image a try.

Regards,
Stephan

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