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docFarto

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Registered: 2021-11-18

Posts: 24

Cannot boot into bootable medium with Dell Inspiron 5575

Hey I am posting again because I am at my wits end here. Any help is appreciated.
I dual booted my windows 10 with arch it worked fine then it crashed and wouldn't boot into arch. It would just hang on triggering uevents or I'd just get a black screen.
When I load up my bootable medium it is the same.

heres my hardware info
Dell Inspiron 5575
AMD Ryzen 5 2500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx

BIOSVersion {DELL   - 1, 1.1.6, Dell Inc. - 10106}

I am attempting to start from scratch as I figure there must be some bad blocks or something from the previous install. Also possibly from windows going into hibernation (I thought I turned it off with initial arch install, but now I feel like I messed it up)

I deleted my arch partitions, updated my bios, did a factory reset in windows 10 from the factory image from Dell. I also went into the efi boot partition and deleted grub and the arch entries, so it doesn't show up in my boot options. I also reset the CMOS.

and still my bootable medium will not boot. After I select to boot Arch from the menu it gets stuck here. Plus side there is a new error message.

https://ibb.co/FKbGjgZ

Does anyone have any ideas, is there some other memory I could clear that might allow my bootable medium to boot!? Does that even make sense, I really am not a hardware guy at all. Thanks for reading.

Last edited by docFarto (2021-11-29 20:35:19)

Ferdinand

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From: Norway

Registered: 2020-01-02

Posts: 338

Re: Cannot boot into bootable medium with Dell Inspiron 5575

I would start by updating your BIOS; there is a version 1.3.3 available:
https://www.dell.com/support/home/produ … op/drivers
It's marked as important too.

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Eurkz

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Registered: 2021-07-21

Posts: 49

Re: Cannot boot into bootable medium with Dell Inspiron 5575

When booting from the usb, run the "nomodeset" parameter.
Do this by pressing the "e" key when the arch install medium is selected, a long string of code will popup underneath, just go to the end of that string of text and add "nomodeset". This happens to my desktop computer all the time, for whatever reason it doesn't work for me without.

Last edited by Eurkz (2021-12-01 17:50:45)

docFarto

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Registered: 2021-11-18

Posts: 24

Re: Cannot boot into bootable medium with Dell Inspiron 5575

Hey guys thanks for the responses.
I updated my BIOs to 1.3.3 and it didn't help
I also tried nomodeset and I got this new error

[drm:amdgpu_init[amdgpu]] *ERROR* VGACON disables amdgpu kernel modesetting

so I looked it up and I tired booting with amdgpu.dc=0
and that didn't work either but it gave me some funky artifacts, that looked like certain lines of pixels were rainbowy