Asahi Linux stuck/reboot on Fedora Spinner

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Hey,
I am new to the Linux world but really want to get in and dualbooted my Mac M1 with Asahi Fedora. Everything worked fine, I then shut my laptop down. After two hours I wanted to start it and it stuck on the after that U-Boot screen, where it show a loading spinner and fedora underneath (picture attached). The spinner spinned, then the screen got dark, i turned it on again, the spinner was still spinning and the it just rebooted. I then booted into Mac Os again, was not able to solve the problem and then uninstalled and reversed my Dualboot Linux (don’t know how to call this). I reinstalled Asahi Fedora, this time it worked fine, i shut down my laptop, turned it on again could login, but then i restarted it and the same problem accured. What is this and is there help?
I really would love to make it work.

thanks:)

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Welcome to Fedora @kurtgoedel

What is the equivalent of ESC by your computer? Just press that when starting and you get a list of tasks while the spinner is running. This might gives you more information what is wrong.

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did you solve it? I have the same problem haha

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I am also facing a similar issue (possibly related). Mine appears to be intermittent (usually boot looping) however, I was able to get in once and change my grub settings to get some actual output (by removing rhgb quiet).

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I pulled dmesg info from a proper boot (where I was actually able to get into Fedora) and appears to match up pretty well:

[    1.457339] asahi 206400000.gpu: GPU Information:
[    1.457339] asahi 206400000.gpu:   Type: G13G
[    1.457341] asahi 206400000.gpu:   Clusters: 1
[    1.457341] asahi 206400000.gpu:   Cores: 8 (8)
[    1.457342] asahi 206400000.gpu:   Frags: 8 (8)
[    1.457343] asahi 206400000.gpu:   GPs: 4 (4)
[    1.457344] asahi 206400000.gpu:   Core masks: [
                   0xfe,
               ]
[    1.457345] asahi 206400000.gpu:   Active cores: 7
[    1.457345] asahi 206400000.gpu: Getting configuration from device tree...
[    1.457370] asahi 206400000.gpu: Dynamic configuration fetched
[    1.457623] asahi 206400000.gpu: MMU: IO map: 0x204d00000:0x1c000 -> 0xffffffaf00000000
[    1.457627] asahi 206400000.gpu: MMU: IO map: 0x20e100000:0x4000 -> 0xffffffaf00020000
[    1.457629] asahi 206400000.gpu: MMU: IO map: 0x23b104000:0x4000 -> 0xffffffaf00028000
[    1.457631] asahi 206400000.gpu: MMU: IO map: 0x204000000:0x20000 -> 0xffffffaf00030000
[    1.457633] asahi 206400000.gpu: MMU: IO map: 0x23b2e8000:0x4000 -> 0xffffffaf00054000
[    1.457635] asahi 206400000.gpu: MMU: IO map: 0x23bc00000:0x4000 -> 0xffffffaf0005c000
[    1.457636] asahi 206400000.gpu: MMU: IO map: 0x204d80000:0x8000 -> 0xffffffaf00064000
[    1.457638] asahi 206400000.gpu: MMU: IO map: 0x204d60000:0x4000 -> 0xffffffaf00070000
[    1.457639] asahi 206400000.gpu: MMU: IO map: 0x200000000:0xd8000 -> 0xffffffaf00078000
[    1.457641] asahi 206400000.gpu: MMU: IO map: 0x23b738000:0x4000 -> 0xffffffaf00154000
[    1.458708] asahi 206400000.gpu: RTKit: Initializing (protocol version 12)
[    1.486374] [drm] Initialized asahi 0.0.0 for 206400000.gpu on minor 1
[    1.492606] apple-display-crossbar 38304c000.mux: Switched dpphy to disconnected state
[    1.492611] apple-display-crossbar 38304c000.mux: Switched dpin0 to disconnected state
[    1.492614] apple-display-crossbar 38304c000.mux: Switched dpin1 to disconnected state
[    1.495448] apple-display-crossbar 50304c000.mux: Switched dpphy to disconnected state
[    1.495452] apple-display-crossbar 50304c000.mux: Switched dpin0 to disconnected state
[    1.495455] apple-display-crossbar 50304c000.mux: Switched dpin1 to disconnected state
[    1.497971] /soc/i2c@235010000/usb-pd@38/connector: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /soc/phy@383000000

It looks like the next text after this is related to another connectorthen some BTRFS mounting? :

[    1.499934] /soc/i2c@235010000/usb-pd@3f/connector: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /soc/phy@503000000
[    1.506124] BTRFS: device label fedora devid 1 transid 331 /dev/nvme0n1p6 (259:6) scanned by mount (600)
[    1.506561] BTRFS info (device nvme0n1p6): first mount of filesystem 19215083-d0bc-45e5-ae3f-eebb4aa97385
[    1.506569] BTRFS info (device nvme0n1p6): using crc32c (crc32c-lib) checksum algorithm

@ilikelinux, any ideas based on that information?

Thanks!

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Just an update. I have tried other installs of Asahi (Gnome and Minimal) and experience the same symptoms. With and without a power adapter plugged in (with nothing else plugged in).

I have also tried

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh

&

sudo dnf update

&

sudo asahi-fwupdate

But even then, more often than not, I experience a freeze in the boot process but not always in the same space. (Sometimes it is after apple-display-crossbar sometimes it is a few messages later).

If anyone has any suggestions, I am all ears.