Re: Acer Aspire 5 A517-52G - No firmware ACIP and no boot

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>]

On 02.08.2022 17:40, Bruno wrote:
> I’m talking about booting on the host Xen (“Linux with Xen”) - goes to an initramfs prompt.
> 
> I don’t know how to get to this hypervisor log. Maybe not the case as I am attempting the boot on the host linux with Xen. There is no /var/log - only cache and lock

Generally the hypervisor log is obtained via "xl dmesg" (likely not an
option for you when you end up on an initramfs prompt) or a serial
cable. How do you obtain the kernel log (there was one posted on
xen-users)?

> I can list the hard drive partitions under /dev (nvme0n1p1-5), but I cannot mount them. I cannot access a thumb drive either /dev/block, when mounted has two strange symlinks to ../sda1 (8:0 and 1:8). This is a bit frustrating because it does not allow me to export dmesg or other info.
> 
> Im not receiving the error messages on screen before initramfs, they are hidden, but I do get this message:
> 
>     Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device
>      Gave up waiting for root file system device.  Common problems:
> Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
> Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
> ALERT! UUID=0123abc does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
> 
> On the dmesg, I got the ACPI errors:
> 
> ACPI BIOS Error
> (bug): Failure creating named ob
> I_SB.PCOO.XHCI.RHUB.HS05._UPC], AE ALREADY _EXISTS (Z0211217/dsuloadZ-326)
> ACPI Error: AE_ALREADY EXISTS, During name
> slookun/catalog
> -9451181 ACPI: Skipping parse of AML opcode: OpcodeNane unavailable
> (20211217/psobject-z20)
> (0x0014)
> 
> Repeated several times
> 
> ACPI: Skipping parse of AML opcode: DpcodeNane unavailable (0x0014)

Right - I've seen those. These were why I did ask for a pair of kernel logs
(with and without Xen), to put them side by side and see which of the errors
are common (and hence likely of no interest to resolve your issue).

> Latter on the dmesg I got repeated errors like this:
> 
> RIP: 0033:0x7 969a2e2äc9
> RSP: 002b:00007ffaff421a28 FLAGS: 00000246 RIG RAX: 0000000000000139
> RAX: Efffffffffffffda RBX: 00005582Bb061d10 RCX: 00007 969aZeZäc9
> 244.4412241 RDX:000000000RSI: 000071969a49bfOd RDI: 00000000000000
> RB: 0000000000020000 ROB: 0000000000000000 R09: 000055828b04c290
> R10: 000000000000000c R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f969a49bf®d
> R13: 000000GBOOOOOOOO R14: 000055B28b060aZO R15: 00005582Bb06110
> 
> (/TASK>
> INFO: task systemd-udevd: 190 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

Besides some of the characters looking scrambled, I can spot nothing like
this in
https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-users/2022-07/msg00057.html

Anyway, my request stands: Please post the three named logs here.

Jan