@ntromans

I'm glad that board is working for you now I actually bought one of these on eBay many weeks ago to try and reproduce the problem, but the board was faulty (I got my money back though).

Ah, great. So I can close the bug report on that as well.

It's the one which was previously failing straight after GRUB; the motherboard is ASUS B85M-E i7.

Cheers,
Nigel.

Thanks, noted down. Can you give me model name/motherboard name for your "i7 desktop"?

USB 3.0 + mouse -> jerky movements - yes, this is known issues, happens on other boards as well.

Results from my i7 desktop:

Good news is it now does boot from CD (all options). The cats eyes appear at one point but the boot carries on through to Wanderer.

Also good news is that a SFS formatted USB stick is recognised for all options. I also tries a FAT formatted stick with options B and C - all good, stick is recognised and I can access files on it; however, it is not recognised at all for option A.

However, wireless mice/keyboard combos do not work with any option. I've tried two, neither work or show up in Trident prefs. For context, they are recognised by the BIOS as I can use them to select the GRUB option.

A wired USB mouse is recognised in options B and C, but the pointer movement is quite jerky. It is not recognised at all in option A.

Cheers,
Nigel.

It's an EliteBook 8470p.

Cheers,
Nigel.

The HP Z400 works with all available options, I remember that I added a USB 3 card which does not boot. I am currently having the HP EliteBook 830 G5 laptop undergo a checkup Anyway, it only works with USB 3 ports. It seems to me that it has a Thunderbolt port.

Hi

@ntromans

Can you provide the exact model of this HP EliteBook laptop?

Downloaded the latest experimental iso and booted from CD on my HP EliteBook i5. Only brief testing so far (will do more tomorrow) but on connecting a SFS formatted USB stick (an old AROS boot US I had the following reults:

Option A - UB recognised on all ports (icon on Wanderer, can open and view file structure)

Option B = USB not recognised on any port (no icon on Wanderer at all)

Option C - USB only recognised on USB 2 ports, not at all on USB 3

Sorry,
Nigel.

I need to use a USB 3 cable with the phone for tethering

I will do other tests

@AMIGASYSTEM

Thanks for detailed description of tests and results. I noted it down.

@deadwood

As for the USB 3.0 flash drives, they aren’t faulty; I bought one new specifically for this test.

I tried using VirtualBox and things didn’t change much:

VirtualBox with USB 3.0 chipset configured + USB 2.0 flash drive tested on an HP ENVY 15-k112nl
- The flash drive appears in the menu
- TEST A = After Grub, the cat’s eyes appear; if you press the laptop’s power button, the guru shown in the screenshot posted above appears
- TEST B = AROS boots correctly (wireless mouse does not work)
- TEST C = AROS boots correctly (wireless mouse does not work)

VirtualBox with USB3 chipset configured + USB3 Tested on HP ENVY 15-k112nl

Same behaviour as VMware; USB 3.0 flash drives rarely appear in the menu

Note that Wipe does not work in VirtualBox and VMware if the flash drive is formatted as FAT32
In practice, after using Wipe, the flash drive remains formatted as FAT32.

To get Wipe to work with InstallAROS, you must first use Windows and perform the Wipe using a partition management programme

Ok, noted down. Option A will not work on HP EliteBook 830 G5 because it only has USB3 chipset.

I tried the latest build you released, it only works with option B

I have to take the computer back to the technician, it doesn't work anymore, it won't turn on. Anyway, the tethering worked no.

It works, I tried another USB 3 port, the one on my left. I don't have USB 2 ports. Maybe the 3.0 are USB 2 compatible, I have to try.

Are you talking about HP EliteBook 830 G5?
Did this guru happen when booting from CDROM or pendrive?
Did AROS ever worked on this computer? If yes, which version of AROS worked.

@AMIGASYSTEM

Yes, the builds don't need USB3 sticks. I'm actually testing them with USB2 sticks. Also in VMWARE it does not matter (unless there is a bug! but noone reported so far) whether you configure USB2 chipset or USB3 chipset - you can write to either USB2 stick or USB3 stick.

The configuration that I personaly use for writting to pendrive is:
VirtualBox with USB3 chipset configured + USB2 stick.

Note: I have not tested VMWARE much. There may be a bug in there - see if you get more stable "InstallAROS to stick" with USB2 chipset configured in VMWARE.

With regards to first part of your question:
- if your BIOS is not showing stick on bootable media screen then either your stick is broken or AROS did install correctly.
- if you can select stick in BIOS menu, GRUB loads and you get issues after selecting one of the configurations, then it's a problem with AROS itself.

I managed to boot, but a guru appeared immediately, it's too fast, I can't take a screenshot