2019 Acer Swift SF314-41 fails to boot live-usb [SOLVED]
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:19 pm
I can not produce a QSI from this machine because it cycles through booting up to loading live-init, and on the rare occasion it gets to the desktop, it freezes withing 10 seconds.
AMD Ryzen 5 3500U 4 x 2.1 - 3.7 GHz, Zen+ with AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) Graphics
BIOS is the latest (F10) for this machine.
Full specs here --> https://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Swif ... 585.0.html
I want to install MX21-3 onto it for my wife to use at school with her teaching.
So far, I've tried MX-21.3 Xfce and AHS, as well as personal snapshots with upgraded kernels and a boot parameter load=all, all to no avail
This machine only boots from gpt partitioned drives and I only use MXLUM to make a Live-USB. I've tried regular flash drives, high speed UAS flash drives and external USB HDD.
If anyone has experience with such a machine, I'd love to hear from you, and all other suggestions welcome. - - - - - - - - - -
EDIT --- now that it's working
Acer Swift Geekbench results --> https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/20 ... ?key=98329
AMD Ryzen 5 3500U 4 x 2.1 - 3.7 GHz, Zen+ with AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) Graphics
BIOS is the latest (F10) for this machine.
Full specs here --> https://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Swif ... 585.0.html
I want to install MX21-3 onto it for my wife to use at school with her teaching.
So far, I've tried MX-21.3 Xfce and AHS, as well as personal snapshots with upgraded kernels and a boot parameter load=all, all to no avail
This machine only boots from gpt partitioned drives and I only use MXLUM to make a Live-USB. I've tried regular flash drives, high speed UAS flash drives and external USB HDD.
If anyone has experience with such a machine, I'd love to hear from you, and all other suggestions welcome. - - - - - - - - - -
EDIT --- now that it's working
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Snapshot created on: 20230130_1223
System: Kernel: 6.0.0-6mx-amd64 [6.0.12-1~mx21+1] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.0.0-6mx-amd64
root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet idle=nomwait
nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=5500 splash
Desktop: Xfce 4.18.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7
dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.3_x64 Wildflower January 30 2023
base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Swift SF314-41 v: V1.10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: PK model: Strongbow_PK v: V1.10 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.10
date: 03/17/2021
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 48.9 Wh (100.0%) condition: 48.9/48.9 Wh (100.0%) volts: 17.6
min: 15.2 model: LGC AC14B8K type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M350 Wireless Mouse serial: <filter>
charge: 50% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: N/A
CPU: Info: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Zen family: 17 (23) model-id: 18 (24) stepping: 1 microcode: 8108109
cache: L2: 2 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 33536
Speed: 1222 MHz min/max: 1400/2100 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1222
2: 1397 3: 1222 4: 1400 5: 1400 6: 1461 7: 1400 8: 1400
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT vulnerable
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB
filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: AMD Picasso/Raven 2 [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series]
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:15d8 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Chicony HD WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-4:2 chip-ID: 04f2:b5c5
class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.14 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver:
loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 158 size: 309x173mm (12.2x6.8")
diag: 354mm (13.9")
OpenGL:
renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (raven LLVM 14.0.5 DRM 3.48 6.0.0-6mx-amd64)
v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:15de class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Processor
driver: snd_pci_acp3x v: kernel alternate: snd_rn_pci_acp3x,snd_pci_acp5x,snd_pci_acp6x
bus-ID: 03:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.0.0-6mx-amd64 running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Network: Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lite-On
driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel modules: wl bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:003e
class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth: Device-1: Lite-On type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-2.4:5 chip-ID: 04ca:3016
class-ID: e001
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: N/A rfk-block:
hardware: no software: yes address: <filter>
Info: acl-mtu: 1024:8 sco-mtu: 50:8 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff
link-mode: slave accept
Drives: Local Storage: total: 596.18 GiB used: 7.67 GiB (1.3%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: PC SN520 SDAPNUW-512G-1014 size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s lanes: 2 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 20110000
temp: 30.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 type: USB vendor: Netac model: USB Flash Drive
size: 119.24 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 1301 scheme: GPT
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 24.41 GiB size: 23.86 GiB (97.74%) used: 7.32 GiB (30.7%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%) used: 25.3 MiB (26.4%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 282.23 GiB size: 276.73 GiB (98.05%) used: 328.3 MiB (0.1%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:6
Swap: Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 5.86 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7 maj-min: 259:7
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: 30.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 51.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos: Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 2187 lib: 1159 flatpak: 0
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb http://mx.debian.nz/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
2: deb http://mx.debian.nz/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
Info: Processes: 274 Uptime: 53m wakeups: 10 Memory: 5.73 GiB used: 1.27 GiB (22.2%)
Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: N/A
alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06
Boot Mode: UEFI