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Originally Posted by pchristy
Maybe if enough people post their experiences here, it will get their attention! 
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Hello,
is this problem supposed to be fixed?
I cannot boot my new Acer Aspire 3 A315-56 (BIOS version 1.19, SSD storage) with a
USB pendrive holding the "usbboot.img" in "slackware64-current" from October 10,
2021. The MS Windows installation worked fine.
This is what I did, after searching the Net:
1. at boot time, press F2 to enter the BIOS setup;
2. in BIOS's "Security" tab: set the Supervisor Password;
3. in BIOS's "Boot" tab: the only boot mode available is UEFI, but I disabled the
Secure Boot;
4. in BIOS's "Main" tab: press Ctrl+S to enable the supervisor features; change the
SATA mode from "Optane without RAID" to "AHCI";
5. in BIOS's "Exit" tab: select "Exit Saving Changes".
Now I try to boot from the USB pendrive:
1. at boot time press F12 to enter the boot menu;
2. select the "USB HDD" as boot device;
3. I see the first textual screen from Slackware's loader "Welcome to Slackware64
version 15.0 (Linux kernel 5.14.11)!"
4. I just press Enter to boot with the "huge.s" image;
5. loading starts; it loads "huge.s" until "done"; it loads "initrd.img" until
"done";
6. and it just stops doing nothing.
Sometimes I can reboot with Ctrl+Alt+Canc; other times I have to cut energy by
inserting a needle in the small reset hole under the laptop.
The same happens with "usbboot.img" in Slackware64 14.2. I can boot the laptop from
a USB pendrive holding one of the latest LinuxMint images
"linuxmint-20.2-xfce-64bit.iso".
If I leave SATA mode to "Optane without RAID": LinuxMint cannot see the internal SDD;
by setting it to "AHCI": LinuxMint can see the internal SDD with devices:
/dev/nvme0n1p1 EFI system partition
/dev/nvme0n1p2 Microsoft reserved partition
/dev/nvme0n1p3 Basic data partition (with the Windows installation in it)
/dev/nvme0n1p4 Basic data partition (with the Recovery system in it)
With SATA mode set to "AHCI", the preinstalled Windows does not boot anymore; I can
boot it again by switching SATA mode back to "Optane without RAID", boot, let it
"repair" the system and restart.
So I tried an equivalent of pchristy's method to create a bootable instllation USB
pendrive: it worked, I can boot the installation procedure (not finished yet, I will
in the upcoming days).