Hello, not much of a Linux user (situations like this are why)…but long story short, I’m trying to rehab a ROG PC from 2018.

I made a bootable USB of the current Mint distro, but booting leads to a black screen. I tried compatibility mode, but the boot process hangs on “EFI stub: Measured initrd data into PCR 9”

The PC came with an Nvidia 2080, but it’s actually a 980ti. Also there isn’t integrated graphics here. Any troubleshooting advice would be cool

Update: if I select recovery mode then ‘resume normal boot’, Mint 21 works. However, this computer will be a gift to a tech-illiterate person, so that level of input will not suffice. I installed the recommended (and correct) Nvidia driver, but the results are the same

  • LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    11 days ago

    Just to clarify, none of the options “work.” But ‘Advanced options for Linux Mint 21’ > ‘recovery mode’ gives me the option to ‘Resume normal boot’. And for whatever reason, that works when a normal boot (without extra steps) doesn’t.

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      You’re using GRUB: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB

      There’s a .cfg file in your EFI system partition, sometimes mounted on /boot. /boot/grub/grub.cfg has the settings for the items in that menu. If you can figure out what works about the recovery mode (it’s probably just launching with no kernel parameters), then you can edit the default one.

      • LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.worksOP
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        3 days ago

        First, I want to say thank you for your support. You gave me hope, so I’m now following this community.

        Turns out (much to my dismay) that Linux wasn’t going to be possible here…after hours of troubleshooting, I found out the hard way that the end user needed Windows or Mac due to Adobe cloud service bs. So that project went out the window.

        But great news: I’m currently pulling my hair out trying to migrate my server from an underpowered NAS to a Proxmox machine.

        • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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          3 days ago

          Adobe, uhg. AutoCAD is another one that you’ll run into that just can’t work on Linux. Our engineers all use Linux at home but have to use Windows 11 in order to use AutoCAD.

          I’ve tried a few different pre-packaged distros but was never happy. So, I just build everything on Arch. It’s only frustrating to install the first 37 times and I get as clean a system as I can without going the Gentoo route and compiling everything specifically for my hardware. I’m using a 20TB ZFS array served over NFS to my wireguard clients. Then various container things (pihole, jellyfin, sonarr/radarr/qbittorrent, etc).

          I was going to virtualize Windows, but I can play all of the games on Linux and the ones that I can’t won’t work in virtualization for the same reason that they won’t work on Linux.