With no other errors? Can you take a photo of hte screen? Quoth tlaro...@kergis.com: > In order to be able to test multicores, I bought a PC with an AMD > Ryzen, normally 8 cores (Windows tells it has 16 processors, but I > guess these are threads and not cores), 16GB of memory, a 512 GB SSD > disk, with both wifi and an RJ45 (Realtek Gaming 2.5GbE Family > controler, but should be compatible with RTL8111* or RTL8168*, so > should work. > > I just received the thing so from a quick test: > > One can access the AMI BIOS by pressing "Del". First time, this is a > Windows menu. In this case, go to the "Modify UEFI parameters" to get > access to BIOS. Next attempts get me directly to the BIOS menu. > > The first attempt to boot from an USB thumb (with 9front) failed---during > boot, displaying "*acpi=...", then "*bootscreen=...", and then a '>' > prompt appears and, sometimes, stutters; the prompt recognizes the > command "boot" so apparently, it is bootx64.efi. > > I will have whether to find an implementation of the UEFI shell to put > in the filesystem somewhere (there is none), or try to see what fails > in the 9front boot sequence (probably the pathname; but without an > UEFI shell, it will be difficult to know what the BIOS is expecting). > > There is also the possibility to PXE boot (UEFI stack) so I will try > this too. > > Or, last resort, I will have to chainload from the Windows boot > manager in order to bypass the early stages if possible. > > The references: > > "ACEMAGICIAN Mini PC AMD Ryzen 9 9600HX (8C/16T), up to 4.9 GHz, > 16 GB DDR5, 512 GB SSD, AMD Radeon RX 680M RGB". > > On Amazon, for 399 euros. > > I will spend some time during my NIX slot on Sunday to try to make it > boot 9front and will report success or failure. > -- > Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ kergis +dot+ com> > http://www.kergis.com/ > http://kertex.kergis.com/ > Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C
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