Boot Stuck on "Welcome to EndeavourOS!"

[moisentinel]

The laptop has an Intel CPU.

I did get into a shell by editing the kernel line in the grub menu (adding init=/bin/sh in the end) and was able to access journalctl. Not sure if it means anything, but the command login didn’t work in the shell.

Though, journalctl -b returned no entries.

Edit:

Here are the specs from the BIOS:

Fastfetch output:

[moisentinel]

i am thinking of installing another distro for now, because i have a research project coming up. as only EndeavourOS live installer doesn’t seem to work…

the only other pc i have (which i am using right now) is not up to par for my work.

thankfully i had my /home as a different partition.

i do want to get to the bottom of the problem though, someday. i hope the next install doesn’t return anymore weird errors (then it would be confirmed that the motherboard is )
really weird behaviour…

[moisentinel]

I spoke too soon. Even CachyOS live installer doesn’t seem to boot…

Arch specific case? Can it be a Ventoy problem? (I am using that)

[moisentinel]

Yes, in fact it is an Arch issue.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=266022

[moisentinel]

Partial Breakthrough!

I was able to partially boot my laptop by adding the acpi=off kernel parameter. The progress moved from “Welcome to EndeavourOS!” to getting stuck at “Reached Target Graphical Interface”.
At this point, I was able to access a TTY and get the logs:

https://0x0.st/X3IG.txt (journalctl -b -0)
https://0x0.st/X3Ik.txt (inxi -Fcc0z)

I was also able to boot my EOS Live Installer with the same kernel edit. However, it is important to notice that only the UEFI Default option boots properly (to GUI), not the NVIDIA option (it gets stuck)

Speculation
I do think that it is caused by something related to my GPU, I don’t know if it’s a ACPI issue…

@thefrog thoughts?

[thefrog]

@moisentinel

not the NVIDIA option (it gets stuck)

does this have dual video cards or a hybrid video card?

do you have the same issues on an LTS kernel?

[manuel]

You have no graphics drivers active. Reinstalling the linux kernel and the Nvidia driver packages (under arch-chroot, or in the TTY if that works) might help further.

[moisentinel]

i think… a dual? NVIDIA card + integrated graphics.

I tried to do boot it in LTS, and the same thing happened.

then i installed nvidia-dkms:

System wont boot, stuck at ''Reached target graphical interface''

This started after i updated my system yesterday, when i reboot it started to get stuck in ''Reached target Graphical interface" After following this guide i found out that the problem seems to be xorg. here is the log [ 58.405] X.Org X Server 1.21.1.4 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 58.405] Current Operating System: Linux system 5.19.3-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun, 21 Aug 2022 18:55:22 +0000 x86_64 [ 58.405] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=dc…

but that didn’t work well either.

i ended up uninstalling the LTS kernel + nvidia driver for it.

should i test it again?

[moisentinel]

inxi -Ga returns this:

but the problem is, there is no such BIOS setting that I could find.
could it be that acpi is hampering some process?
a hardware malfunction?

[moisentinel]

Fixed it!!!
It was a BIOS related problem (showing IRQ errors and all).

So I reset the CMOS battery of my laptop. And it worked like charm!!!

Everything is working flawlessly. The bootable USBs are booting as well.

So, any BIOS related problems:

• update the BIOS
• or, reset the CMOS battery

thanks to everyone on this thread for their time and being extremely helpful.
@thefrog , @manuel, @stareye72 , @kmonster

[manuel]

Great that you solved it!