Howdy everyone!
Looking for some help, I am trying to install openSUSE tumbleweed, the issue is I get stuck at the boot screen, the one that says loading kernel… loading initial ramdisk…
The issue is I am not quite sure what to do to troubleshoot this, any advice would be appreciated. This also happens with every distro I try to install, I’ve tried Arch, Nix, openSUSE and Fedora.
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Have you tried disabling secure boot in the bios
My windows did this to me while I was dual booting with Mint, re-enabled secure boot when I went back to windows to check a wiki real quick.
Can you share some details about the machine you’re trying to install it on? Are you able to boot a live image?
Yes this. Imagine posting to a stack themed site, your question would be closed for being incomplete. A screenshot of the failed boot would be great, and some info about the options you chose when installing and the type of machine you’re using.
I tried uploading a picture, but couldn’t figure out how, I will try again after work.
As for some system information it’s an old Dell Optiplex 710 workstation, it’s has UEFI but no option to turn off secure boot.
The Optiplex 710 supposedly supports Ubuntu 10 and 11, so booting Linux should be possible. May require installing without UEFI, though.
I know some distros have issues with old Intel GPUs, try booting with
nomodesetand the other my-graphics-card-doesnt-work kernel parameters, and figure out what driver options you may need from there. You may need to boot a kernel older than Linux 6.3 for some VERY old GPU hardware to work.
Not sure about your machine, but I have a project box that is a 2008 MacBook Pro, it would get stuck on every distro I tried at initial ramdisk like yours EXCEPT Ubuntu and mint which it installs perfectly fine for whatever reason. Not even Debian worked, I have no idea why this was. Try that possibly?
If I have to I will, not really looking to go down any of the Debian flavors.
I’m running a very old dell optiplex 710, it has uefi but no option to turn off secure boot.
Try different bootloader entries, there should be something like failsafe mode.
So I did try that, I went and installed with grub 2 inside ventoy, the installer works but I can’t boot my installed system now.
Is this via a USB 3 or USB 2 port?
