Hi, was running into the same issue kind of. The A2 error was surprisingly caused by a Fanatec force feed back steering wheel for racing games. If i left it turned on during a boot, It hangs at A2 until i turn the wheel off. As soon as I turn off the wheel it finished booting. I will add that it was a very frustrating couple weeks until i figured this out. I had tried a bunch of different hard drives and boot priorities and stuff of thatr nature, just to notice it booted fine one day and realized i had unplugged the wheel.