Hi there,
This is my first post on this forum, so please be gentle if I do anything wrong. I’m not new to Linux, but quite new to Endeavour, and here I would like to share my experience of installing EOS on my second machine (having happily used EOS on my main machine and decided to use it on the second). It’s an Intel 11 NUC Essential with a Pentium Silver N6005.
inxi -FAZ --no-host
System:
Kernel: 6.3.2-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.5
Distro: EndeavourOS
Machine:
Type: Mini-pc System: Intel Client Systems product: NUC11ATKPE v: M49846-202
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Intel model: NUC11ATBPE v: M49844-202 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: Intel v: ATJSLCPX.0039.2023.0221.1502 date: 02/21/2023
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Pentium Silver N6005 bits: 64 type: MCP cache:
L2: 1.5 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1396 min/max: 800/3300 cores: 1: 2000 2: 790 3: 2000
4: 795
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel JasperLake [UHD Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
dri: iris gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.0.3 renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (JSL)
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Jasper Lake HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
API: ALSA v: k6.3.2-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.70 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: fa:5e:d0:a1:70:fb
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8168
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 88:ae:dd:03:68:8b
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) driver: btusb
type: USB
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: disabled
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 86.81 GiB (18.6%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Kingston model: SNVS500G size: 465.76 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 227.68 GiB used: 22.73 GiB (10.0%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 206 Uptime: 56m Memory: available: 7.51 GiB
used: 2.88 GiB (38.3%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.27
So I tried to install EOS with the current Endeavouros_Cassini_Nova-03-2023_R1.iso on a USB stick with Ventoy. This went fine on my main machine, but on my second machine I got the same boot errors as described in this thread.
Yes, I know the first suspect in this kind of scenario is always Ventoy and/or some incompatible BIOS function, but after about 3 hours of fiddling around I finally found the boot parameter that allowed me to successfully install EOS on my second machine.
I had to
- remove
nouveau.modeset
andradeon.modeset
- add
i915.modeset=1
addintel_iommu=on
to the Live-ISO boot parameters.
Or more simply:
Select the nomodeset
boot option and replace nomodeset
with i915.modeset=1
From there, everything went as smoothly as it did on my main machine, and I am now writing to you on the second machine, for which I almost decided to go back to Mint yesterday, but luckily I was patient and tried to find a workaround.
So I don’t know, and will leave it to the experts, if my post can provide any useful information for the future, but I think that non-booting Live-ISOs are one of the biggest turn-offs you can face when trying to install a new system, so maybe it can be of some help.
Cheers and thanks for such a smooth and elegant distro!