Trying to boot so I can install, just get black screen
I have a USB thumb drive with Bazzite iso flashed onto it, restart the computer, go to BIOS, and it recognizes the thumb drive. But as soon as I select it as the source to boot from, it just goes to a black screen and stays there for minutes.
For what it's worth, I also went back and put Linux Mint on the drive and it did the same thing, so it's not Bazzite specific. The thumb drive is a very new and highly rated, Kingston.
I checked and Secure Boot is off. I do not have dual monitors. I have dual booted Linux before on laptops, but this is my PC.
What do you think is going on?
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What often happens iirc is the ISO installers try and use the graphics card drivers in the installer and whatever it packaged with the installer is not good enough to use the graphics card to render the screen.
In the Bazzite installer, try select the troubleshooting option then select the fallback graphics option (which uses the CPU only for the rendering - I think - but I might be wrong). The same will probably work in Linux Mint.
Here's an update:
I took my PC into a computer shop and we tested out different setups. The installer wouldn't progress until we downgraded the graphics card to an older Nvidia card. I have a GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, but we needed to use an older model. This is crazy, no way it's intended, so please look into that.
Once the install was finished, I can now boot and use Bazzite, but the installer itself seemed to not work for this card.
Did you try the fallback graphics option in the installer? Under troubleshooting in the grub menu before you start the installer.
The one under troubleshooting... I think I didn't, not sure if the computer shop did.