I’ve recently added an HP Elitedesk 800 G2. I was planning on installing Windows 10 (still need the blasted thing sometimes) and Arch. But I would prefer to use EOS - nice clean install for UEFI systems.
Small problem though - any attempt to boot the EOS USB fails. I get the initial boot menu, select EOS, at which point I get a single text line (sha256sum verified). Then the screen goes blank and nothing further happens. Video sync fails and the machine just sits. As a cross check, I’ve booted the same USB drive on my Thinkpad 430S and a couple of other machines. Also, I can boot Manjaro or MX Linux on the Elitedesk without any problems. Here’s a summary of the hardware, taken from an MX 19 live boot:
System: Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0
Desktop: Xfce 4.14.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0
Distro: MX-19_x64 patito feo October 21 2019 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine: Type: Desktop System: HP product: HP EliteDesk 800 G2 SFF v: N/A
serial: <root required> Chassis: type: 4 serial: <root required>
Mobo: HP model: 8054 v: KBC Version 05.22 serial: <root required> UEFI: HP
v: N01 Ver. 02.16 date: 08/08/2016
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-6500 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Skylake-S
rev: 3 L2 cache: 6144 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 25536
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800
Graphics: Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:1912
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1600x1200~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 530 (Skylake GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6
compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-H HD Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard 100 Series/C230 Series Family driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a170
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-6-amd64
Network: Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k
port: efa0 bus ID: 00:1f.6 chip ID: 8086:15b7
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 94:57:a5:f2:2a:a0
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.15 TiB used: 24.3 MiB (0.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Micron model: 1300 MTFDDAK256TDL size: 238.47 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: 193723C8FB03 rev: U000 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1SB10C size: 931.51 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: Z9A0JYYQ rev: CC43 scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Kingston model: DataTraveler G3 size: 3.66 GiB
serial: 001372982B41BBC095D200DB rev: PMAP scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / size: 6.09 GiB used: 24.3 MiB (0.4%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102
ID-2: swap-1 size: 24.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb1
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 190 Uptime: 2m Memory: 7.68 GiB used: 488.8 MiB (6.2%) Init: SysVinit
v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3
running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.0.36
Other than some sort of video incompatibility, I have no idea what could cause this problem. I would be grateful for any ideas as to how to get past it…