Nvidia edition endless black screen on boot
KDE, Nvidia edition on a Gigabyte laptop
After turning on the computer manually (first time after installing Bazzite), I get this menu (see screenshot), but no matter which option I choose, I'm stuck in an endless black screen. Same situation if I don't press anything.
I'm a total Linux newb so any kind of helpful advice is much appreciated.
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You need to go in to your Boot menu and disable Secure Boot
Wait I am going to send you the documentation
Installation Troubleshoot Guide - Bazzite Documentation
Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.
"Device is Active" Error
You Probably have this error right?
Not really
There is no message, just a black screen
Thats interesting
I did enrol the MOK key during the installation process
But there is nowhere to input it
Maybe I should just reinstall without Secure Boot
Does it change much?
Did you already disable Secure Boot and tryed rebooting?
Because sadly I cant really help you otherwise, and we have to wait for someone who knows more what they are doing.
But trying should hurt
You can try disabling secure boot
Device is active is unrelated, that's for the installer and bitlocker
How to disable secure boot?
In the bios
You can reenable it afterwards if you want
You have to go to your Bios, for a Gigabyte Laptop you usually have to press the delete key (del) during startup
I have the same issue, on a desktop pc though. I already have secure boot off. At one point I heard what I assume to be a startup sound, but I still didn't see anything. I had the same issue on ubuntu, but in bios and windows it works fine. The weird thing is I previously already had ubuntu installed and it worked fine. Also, I did install bazzite on a different drive from windows.
I've managed to disable secure boot and now I'm trying to reinstall Bazzite because I still cannot access it.
I choose the USB device with Bazzite ISO:
Then this shows up:
But no matter if I choose the first or second option, I get stuck on an endless screen looking like this:
what GPU do you have?
Ideally I'd format the whole disk, but I'll settle for any solution that lets me normally boot Bazzite.
Intel UHD and RTX 4060 I think
Or maybe there is some way to factory reset my whole laptop and start a clean installation again?
Please, if someone knows how to help, I have no way to access the computer or even reinstall anything. Thanks in advance.
When you open the option “install bazzite …”
Whilst it is booting up. Can you try hitting CTRL + Shift. It should show verbose boot information
This has happened to me before on my MSI but under a specific condition :/
where the screen is blank with a _