Aurora-surface 41 boot issue

[trekker99]

Describe the bug

The latest from aurora-surface:latest seems to be using a bazzite kernel instead of a aurora surface kernel, resulting in my Surface Pro 6 not being able to boot. I have rolled back for the time being.

What did you expect to happen?

Aurora 41 boots on a Microsoft Surface Pro 6.

Output of rpm-ostree status

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Output of groups

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Extra information or context

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[TheElbinho]

Same issue on Surface Pro 5

[m2Giles]

We have recently switched to the bazzite kernel for asus and surface images. The bazzite kernel carries the same surface linux patches.

What do you mean that it fails to boot?

[TheElbinho]

What do you mean that it fails to boot?

Freezes right after Grub prompt ("Booting Aurora 41 from Fedora Kinoite...")

I first suspected a Secure Boot issue, as the Surface is a bit special in this regard, but disabling Secure Boot didn't help.

I tried getting some info from ujust log-last-boot, but it seems to fail before any kind of log is generated

I also rolled back to 40 for now

[m2Giles]

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/tree/master/patches%2F6.11

Will check that all of these are in bazzite-kernel.

The fact yours completely fails to boot is a bit of a concern. There is a PR to make sure that the previous surface modules are apart of the initramfs.

[TheElbinho]

To be fair, there have been more recent releases since it failed for me. I think the one I tried was 41-20241108

[trekker99]

I get the exact same behaviour as TheElbinho. Recovering on a surface is a bit troublesome as I don't have the surface keyboard and breaking out the wired keyboard needs to be planned ahead.

[m2Giles]

I've confirmed that all patches are in the bazzite kernel. Do either of you have encryption enabled as well?

[trekker99]

Nope, encryption is not enabled. I tried the latest and still cannot boot. Back to the last build. I'm not sure if the move to 41 is the real issue and not the bazzite kernel persay.

[TheElbinho]

Also no encryption on my Surface

[m2Giles]

We have added the same initramfs changes that were in the previous surface builds.

[TheElbinho]

Just tried :latest again, out of curiosity. Still no change.

I would love to generate more substantial and constructive feedback, but I don't know how.

[trekker99]

Just tried the latest. Same issue. Can't boot.

[trekker99]

I removed quiet from the boot options but no debug print to console. It hangs even before the first log message is printed out.

[neononyx]

I am trying to do a fresh install of Aurora on my Surface Pro 7
Have Secure Boot disabled (Is/Was running KDE Neon okay before)
Boots to grub asking
"Install aurora-hew 41"
"Test this media & install aurora-hew 41"
"Troubleshooting -->"

All options lead to a black screen with a single "_" at the top left of the screen (Not blinking)
Device is totaly unresponsive untill force shutdown.

[trekker99]

To the maintainers of the Aurora surface build, are there anything else we can do to help track down the issues?

[sojay]

I tried the latest-41.20241203.1 on my Surface Book 2, and it won't boot. Same issues reported by @trekker99 @TheElbinho . Reverted to 40 for now.

[anchiornis]

I am having the same issue with a Surface Pro 7+ and Bluefin 41. Is there any information I can provide to help solve this problem?