x86 Haswell not working

I’ve failed to get volumio working on a Haswell NUC (D54250WYK - i5 4250U CPU).
Process was:
Use Win32 Disk imager to write img file to 2.5" SSD connected via USB/SATA adapter.
I then connect the 2.5" drive to the NUC via USB (with adapter), or directly to the internal SATA header, UEFI or legacy boot and it doesn’t work.
With legacy boot I get “no bootable media found”
With UEFI I get nothing for most of the time. The num-lock key on the keyboard does very slow, ominous looking flashes. If I leave it powered on then the volumio logo flashes on the screen for a fraction of a second after about half an hour and again about every half an hour after that.
Hard-wired to network and doesn’t show up on my router.
Wifi hot-spot is also not broadcasting.

I’ve tried re-imaging the disk multiple times.

No problems with the NUC or the disk:

  1. If I take the disk and put it in a lenovo X200 laptop it starts up and runs Volumio perfectly first time.
  2. I took the Linux Mint SSD out of my X200 and put that in the NUC and it booted first time, no problems.
  3. I also took a Windows 10 SSD out of an i7 desktop and another out of a lenovo X200 and those both booted fine in the NUC too (making use of the trick that you can take a Win10 disk out of pretty much any computer and throw it in another one and it will boot up no problems).

The only explanations I can think of at the moment is that that either:

  1. there is some incompatibility between the way the volumio disk image boots and the boot options on this NUC
  2. it works, but the drivers for wifi, wired ethernet and graphics systems I need are not on the Volumio image.

I found zero hits on this website when searching for Haswell, but surely I can’t be the only person trying to get Volumio working on a Haswell PC?
Has anyone had similar problems or know of a workaround?

very well possible your Intel Haswell NUC does not work in case you used the official released version from the Download page, we are aware of multiple issues with “newish” hardware and the old debian kernel, which we cannot just replace.
In case of a released version, please try the images published in this thread: https://volumio.org/forum/next-x86-development-kernel-hardware-debian-stretch-t9651.html

The versions there are based on a current kernel, use the latest released firmware, but are not officially released as they are based on our development efforts for the debian stretch based version. From feeback we know they are pretty stable.

Please reply in the thread listed above, even (or especially) if it does not work.

–Gé–

It’s working - I had to change the on-board graphics memory allocation and will post details in the other thread.