I am VERY new to Linux, and I decided to give EnOS a try. Seemed like the best of both worlds from my research. However I have been beating my head against the wall trying to get it installed.
PC Specs:
EVGA RTX 3080
i9 13900K
64 GB for DDR5 memory
Z790 mini-ITX
1TB samsung NVME
2TB WD NVME
I’ve been trying to get through the installer, but I’ve encountered several issues across multiple attempts:
First Attempt: I used the Nvidia installer, but it hung at around 33% (the mouse became unresponsive). Second Attempt: I rebooted and tried again. This time, it froze at about 79%. Third Attempt: I opted for the default installer, which made it through. However, after installing the Nvidia driver using nvidia-inst, the system failed to start at all. Media Check: Suspecting the install media, I recreated the USB using the image writer on my Steam Deck. I also tried a new USB and ISO created with Rufus on a Windows PC. Additional Troubleshooting: I found a suggestion for Intel 12th Gen+ processors and added ibt=off to the boot command. Numerous Attempts: I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve tried, but I’ve also experimented with different USB ports, desktop environments (Gnome and KDE Plasma), and bootloaders.
Despite these efforts, I’m currently stuck at 70% with a message saying “Processes Running in the background.” This happens regardless of whether I use the default or Nvidia installer, and whether I choose the online or offline version—it seems to freeze or fail each time.
Settings Selected During Installation:
Update mirrors
Online > American English > America > New York > English Keyboard
Plasma KDE
All packages except printers
Grub bootloader
Erase storage on 1TB NVMe
Swap with Hibernate
Formatted to Btrfs
Looks like a GPU driver related problem.
Try again the third time stuff, it gets you the open source driver nouveau.
Then you can install the proprietary driver with either nvidia-inst or manually.
Status update:
I was able to boot into the OS using the default installer.
strangely enough eos-yad was missing the welcome wouldn’t open.
Fixed that with yay - S yad
Installed Nvidia-inst
And ran the commands suggested
nvidia-inst --help
&
nvidia-inst --test --prime
After reboot I was met with a black screen and a cursor when booting.
I tried booting with nomodeset and was able to get in. Afterwards, another reboot without nomodeset. I was now able to get in.
However nividia-smi yields “Nividia-smi has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the Nvidia driver. Make sure the latest Nvidia driver is installed and running.”
Even though Nvidia-isn’t says “all requested packages and settings are already okay”
I had done it without --test after I read what the command wanted me to do, and while nividia-smi would return:
“Nividia-smi has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the Nvidia driver. Make sure the latest Nvidia driver is installed and running.”
Nvidia-inst would come back “all requested packages and settings are already okay"
After a few more hours of beating my head against the wall. I gave up and moved to Manjaro. which showed me something during their install.
I noticed that the install would finish if I was reading the guides during the install, but the time that I left it alone. It failed. So this morning, I reinstalled EnOS with the Nvidia installer while wiggling the window around and it went through without issue.
EndevourOS Installed =) Maybe something was timing out from inactivity or something.