Surface Book: did not find any boot partitions!

[warpdesign2]

When attempting to boot from USB on a Surface Book, it crashes and bring the kernel debugger with the following message:

PANIC: did not find any boot partitions!

Build: 56417 (x64)

Some details about Surface Book:

• has nvme
• has sdcard slot (with a card in it I cannot remove: it's stuck :p)
• has integrated intel GPU + discrete Nvidia GPU
• keyboard is inactive in kernel debugger

[warpdesign2]

Kernel log

[waddlesplash]

Unfortunately without more complete tracing it will likely be impossible to determine what has gone wrong here.

[waddlesplash]

I note you have an earlier #15035. Is this the same device?

[warpdesign2]

What can I do to make a more complete tracing?

Yes, it is the same device: do I still need to use an USB2 stick (I guess it was an USB 3 one) for this ticket.

[waddlesplash]

USB3 booting works on most devices now, but it's worth a try anyways.

[korli]

More complete tracing: You can take more screenshots of pages for the syslog KDL command.

[waddlesplash]

The author noted keyboard does not work in the kernel debugger in the ticket description.

[korli]

Right, does the keyboard work in the bootloader menu? Then on-screen debug output can be video-recorded.

[warpdesign2]

If that's the text menu where we can exclude kernel modules,... yes.

If so what option can I set to enable on-screen debug output?

[korli]

See ​https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/bootloader.html

That would be "Enable on screen debug output" and "Disable on screen paging"

[warpdesign2]

Here is a video of the boot process: ​https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PBVjUMvsbVU

[waddlesplash]

There is indeed a USB stall in the middle of the boot. However I don't know if this is the problem itself. Did you attach the USB drive to a USB hub? Try connecting it to a root port and disconnecting unrelated devices.

[warpdesign2]

I have already plugged the drive to a root port in this video.

There is a "Surface" dock (it's a proprietary connector: no idea if it appears as USB hub in the end) but that's not being used. I'll disconnect it: you never know.

[warpdesign2]

Here is a video without the dock: ​https://youtube.com/shorts/bXewwZg1axA

Note that there is also an SDCard that I cannot unplug because its stuck in the computer.

[warpdesign2]

Any news? Anything I can do to help?

[waddlesplash]

You can try with a recent nightly of hrev56511+, it's possible some of the USB fixes the past few days shook something loose here.

Otherwise I don't really have any great ideas. If you could track down precisely when it stopped working, that would be helpful.

[warpdesign2]

I'm closely watching commits and have already tested this rev but it did not change anything: still stops with the "PANIC: did not find any boot partitions!" message.

I can't track when it stopped working since it never worked, at least with USB3.

I'll give it a try with an older USB2 key: maybe this will help track down the problem?

[warpdesign2]

I did some tests with hrev56521:

• USB2 stick: boots to the welcome screen, but I have no keyboard nor trackpad working
• USB3 stick: "PANIC: did not find any boot partitions!"

There is definitely something wrong with USB3. I'll create a separate ticket for the keyboard/trackpad not working when booting with USB2.

I attached a copy of the USB treeview as seen in Windows: maybe this will help.

[warpdesign2]

USB topology

[warpdesign2]

Can someone update the issue's title to include "USB3"? It seems I cannot modify it.

[korli]

You can surely provide a syslog.

[warpdesign2]

@korli: how can I do that? The keyboard is non functional in the kernel debugger. If you mean providing a video of the on-screen boot messages with paging disabled, I already did that in the video above. I'm afraid that's all I can do.

[korli]

Boot to the desktop, press the shutdown button. There should be a syslog file in system/var/log.

[warpdesign2]

I cannot boot to desktop: as I said it crashes before reaching the desktop screen with the error message "did not find any boot partitions!".

[korli]

You said it worked with a usb2 stick. Now it doesn't?

[warpdesign2]

It does, but since there are two distinct problems:

• USB2: boot, but no mouse/keyboard
• USB3: boot panic

I created a new ticket related to the mouse/keyboard not working here.

And I suggested to add "USB3" in the title of this ticket that will track the Panic problem.

[pulkomandy]

The ticket is in the "xhci" component, that means USB3. There is no need to repeat it in the ticket title I think.

[korli]

Having a syslog of a successful usb2 boot can be useful to understand the usb3 problem. See https://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/ReportingBugs#KernelBugs for more info. You could try to plug in the usb3 stick while having booted with the usb2 stick, maybe something of interest could be seen in the syslog.

[waddlesplash]

I think some of korli's fixes following the last noted hrev might have affected things here. Please test with a recent nightly, again.

[warpdesign2]

Just tried with hrev56627: same message "Did not find any boot partitions!" when booting using USB3.