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bpetid

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Registered: 2023-12-20

Posts: 2

System hangs right after grub

Fresh install of the zen kernel, I can get into GRUB, select a boot option, edit etc.
After I select an option, correctly displays 'loading ..vmlinuz...' but nothing else happens. No logs even...
Installation medium runs fine. I can chroot to my installation, everyting seems fine. The system works on ubuntu, and windows too.

What I tried:
- reboot to installation medium, reinstall grub, run mkinitcpio -P
- checked if correct drivers are installed: amdgpu, intel-ucode, linux-zen headers, firmware.
- tried setting nomodeset, amdgpu.modeset=0, without quiet, loglevel=5 - none of these work
- tried to ssh into the machine, no connection after 2-3 minutes so I guess not only the screen freezes but the machine too. No response to pings either.

I'm pretty sure this is a GPU issue, i'm running an unusual setup, but it works fine with other os'

Specs if needed:
dell precision t3600 workstation
Xenon E5-1650
32gb ram
AMD mi25 flashed to radeon wx9100
running in UEFI mode
partitions: fat32-boot, swap, ext4 root

Anything would help, since I can't even read logs this way...

Last edited by bpetid (2023-12-20 18:08:10)

Nyloflix

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From: Austria

Registered: 2023-12-20

Posts: 1

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Re: System hangs right after grub

Hi there!

Did you already try to install the vanilla kernel and boot it and what was the output of "mkinitcpio -P"?
And by "firmware", I assume you installed the "linux-firmware" package, right?

bpetid

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Registered: 2023-12-20

Posts: 2

Re: System hangs right after grub

I didn't try other kernels, but now I did.
Interesting, linux-lts seems to work just fine... no luck with vanilla though.

Yes I installed linux-firmware and mikinitcpio-firmware too.
Mkinitcpio warns for missing consolefont, no other warnings or errors.
Can I retain dmesg from the startup that failed somehow? Lts is fine, but i'd rather use zen.