I am installing endeavorOS on my AMD PC using a Live USB (flashed in balenaEtcher), when I proceed to boot the fallback mode, it proceeds and sets-up everything, then it throws this error (refer to the image below)
will CNTL-ALT-F2 give you a new login prompt? From there, you’d have access to pacman to install/reinstall things that might be buggered up. Maybe even try “sudo pacman -Syu” and let it update itself and see what a reboot does.
Hi! Thanks for the reply. Yes, CTRL-ALT-F2 gives me a new login prompt, but I do not know what to do, because it asks me for a username & password. I’m really new to endeavorOS and arch in general, so I have no clue what to put there.
I don’t think it’s just this specific ISO, though. I already tried installing other distributions, same error. It’s either this, or black screen. I’ve already re-downloaded the ISO 2 times and burned it on my USB using balenaEtcher.
Then it could possibly be some HW/firmware/BIOS configuration that breaks them.
Have you ever read your motherboard User Manual, and if so, what settings have you already altered to test for a change?
The fact it boots on your laptop means the installation medium is working fine, so while it might not be the answer you want: it looks like this computer just isn’t compatible with Linux, and I’m not sure it’s fair to expect people here to try to solve an unsolvable problem.
On the other hand, a BIOS update might help. Or contact the manufacturer and ask why Linux doesn’t boot.
there’s a couple of comments on this thread about adding nomodeset, but i didn’t see a response (sorry if there is one, i might have missed it). That used to work for me with a blank screen on a live boot with amd on a much older thinkpad with a dual vid chip with amd.
Neither radeon nor amdgpu are usable with nomodset, as Archwiki says.
Most cases I remember, while nomodeset made a non-booting system to boot, they were still unusable (black screen etc.).
That thinkpad of yours might be an exception(?).
just mentioned it 'cause richlinux and mrvictory did and it wasn’t responded to before. The thinkpad i had wasn’t an exception at the time, just a good few generations ago (10 years back, doesn’t time just fly?).
Ok, (sorry about the delay getting back) when you went through the installer, it should have asked you to provide a username and password. It should also have asked if you wanted your user password to also be your root password. Did that not happen?