[Solved] Unable to see virtual terminal during installation

vert9 · 2023-04-02 03:13:20

Hi, I'm new and trying to install Arch on my personal desktop rig after consulting the wiki.

Currently, after I select Arch Linux install medium, my screen would turn black.

I suspect it might be because there are missing drivers to render the graphics to my screen. I do notice that I have had this problem when I tried installing Ubuntu before, but I was able to at least launch the terminal in safe mode to install the corresponding GPU driver (which fixed the problem).

Would need help with getting the virtual terminal up (maybe in safe mode?) and hopefully move to Arch. Please let me know! Thanks!

My hardware config:

CPU: i5-13600KF
GPU: 3060Ti

Last edited by vert9 (2023-04-02 03:42:58)

Trilby · 2023-04-02 03:18:12

If this is uefi system press/hold "e" at the boot menu, or if it's a bios system press/hold "tab". Then append "nomodeset" to the kernel command line to boot.

vert9 · 2023-04-02 03:26:56

Yeap I can see the terminal now. Thank you!

Trilby · 2023-04-02 03:31:18

Once installed, you'll want to configure your graphics drivers to avoid having to continue using that parameter. I don't have any NVIDIA experience, but you should be able to just install the driver and ensure it's included in your initcpio:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … de_setting

vert9 · 2023-04-02 03:39:13

Yeap! Will do that. Thanks a lot for the info

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[Solved] Unable to see virtual terminal during installation

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