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
Consider Universal-Blue:
May I also suggest installing Silverblue or Kinoite and rebase to:
Or try the ISO:
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.
If you have an nvidia card you need to select the fallback (or something) entry in grub
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. 🤷♂️
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.
What is the size of the usb stick you’re flashing it onto? Maybe try it again with a bigger usb stick?
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
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
