1 yr. ago • 100%

issues installing nobara project

Im trying to get into using linux so that I can leave windows bloated mess but ive tried flashing nobara 37 & 38 to a usb, only reaches the grub screen and then gets stuck on a black screen. ive tried with the fedora workstation distro and it does the same. Then I tried popos and it runs perfectly fine? so im not sure what the issue is. id rather have nobara since its easier OOB to run games

PC spec: AMD ryzen 7700x 32 gb ram rtx 4070

any help or advice would be appreciated. thanks

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Consider Universal-Blue:

May I also suggest installing Silverblue or Kinoite and rebase to:

https://universal-blue.org/images/nvidia/

Or try the ISO:

https://github.com/ublue-os/main/releases

https://universal-blue.org/#why-would-i-use-these

It's cloud based image of Fedora with NVIDIA drivers slipped right in there, easy peasy.
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- will look into it, thanks for the suggestion
  
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Im not sure exactly but maybe its secure boot in your bios?, back in the day had to disable that for ubuntu

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- already had it disabled; guess i’ll just look into another distro
  
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If you have an nvidia card you need to select the fallback (or something) entry in grub

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If I recall correctly I had to wait a good 90 seconds for anything to pop up after grub when I've installed nobara.

Have you tried waiting a good minute or two?

I'm kinda meh on nobara, the install is cool, performance is great but I've had some weird problems I never had on xubuntu. 🤷‍♂️

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What is the size of the usb stick you're flashing it onto? Maybe try it again with a bigger usb stick?

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- it was actually the nvidia drivers that was in the install, had to modify the boot so i can download and install the proprietary drivers. everything is running perfectly smooth now :) i was using a 16gb USB
  
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  Good to know you solved your issue. I remember in Nobara 36 I flashed it onto a 4gb stick and it was pretty full. Wasn't sure if the subsequent releases increased in size or not. :p
  
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Had the same problem after upgrading from 37 to 38. Its an nvidia problem

1 - Boot an older kernel OR Drop to a TTY (Ctrl + Alt + F3) OR Boot into runlevel 3 (on grub, press 'e' when the list of kernels show, look for the line with quite splash nvidia-drm.modeset=1 and add the number 3 there, then Ctrl + X to boot) 2 - Login on your terminal and dkms status. If you see something like /var/dkms/nvidia/525.116.03/source/dkms.conf does not exist, remove the entire directory of the failed version rm -rf /var/dkms/nvidia/525.116.03 3 - sudo dkms autoinstall 4 - reboot if no errors and profit, otherwise rinse and repeat step 2-3

PS: If dkms tells you nothing at all (after the upgrade): remove the drivers /etc/nobara/scripts/cosmo-nvidia-wizard/remove.sh

reinstall them /etc/nobara/scripts/cosmo-nvidia-wizard/install.sh

If your dkms status is ok, you probably have a mismatch in your initramfs and root. just sudo dracut -f --regenerate-all and reboot

Thats what i have done now it works fine.

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- it was an nvidia driver problem, i have resolved the issue by editing the boot in grub by pressing e and setting ‘nomodeset quiet’ and reinstalling the propriety drivers upon boot
  
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issues installing nobara project

Consider Universal-Blue: