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#1 2017-08-13 03:16:26

rameez
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uefi installation boot goes black screen; Ryzen 5 with geforce gt 730

I am trying to dual boot Arch linux (2017.08.01) with windows 10 on a GPT partitioned HDD. Even my motherboard supports both UEFI and legacy boot, UEFI boot from the usb live media (prepared using dd) is crashing and results in a black screen. I am able to do all the major installation steps if I select "non-uefi" in the boot menu while boot from the installation media and "efivar -l" command returned saying no function listed. Processor here is AMD ryzen so there is no integrated graphics and I am using Nvidia graphics card (GT730). After reading about similar uefi installation boot fails, I saw threads saying Nvidia graphics cards shows such problems in uefi boot. I checked the list of graphics cards supported by "nouveau" and found that my GT 730 (GK208-400-A1) is not in that list (https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeNames/). This graphics card has proprietary driver for 64 bit linux. Can I add this anyway while booting from usb installation media? or to kernal manually? I tried "nomodeset"  and "noveau.modeset=0" but same result. Can I install arch linux in uefi mode? Can I run the installation in legacy mode and install the OS as a uefi + GPT system? or installing a legacy installation and later on changing it to uefi from within the running arch linux OS? is there any custom kernel which support Nvidia gt 730 on uefi boot?. Am I really getting forced to follow MBR + BIOS mode for getting an arch linux installation?




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This is my first post, so please forgive for any unusual or incomplete parts in this and please let me know about this. Thanking you all in advance, Cheers for Arch!!..

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#2 2017-08-13 09:00:48

V1del
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Re: uefi installation boot goes black screen; Ryzen 5 with geforce gt 730

There should be no issues booting from a UEFI with an nvidia card. can you add a loglevel=7 to those kernel parameters so we can check if there are any messages before the crash? It might also be a UEFI firmware issue on your particular motherboard, so you might want to check for updated firmware files.

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#3 2017-08-13 15:45:27

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Re: uefi installation boot goes black screen; Ryzen 5 with geforce gt 730

rameez wrote:

Can I run the installation in legacy mode and install the OS as a uefi + GPT system?

Yes, see my reply here:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p1730301

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2017-08-13 15:45:43)

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#4 2017-08-14 08:57:43

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Re: uefi installation boot goes black screen; Ryzen 5 with geforce gt 730

Thank you both for your response. I have already formatted my hard disk with MBR partition scheme, booted in legacy mode and installed grub2 in MBR of hard disk. Now it is working fine. Even then I will run another installation for testing purpose including the two above mentioned suggestions. I dont know how to get loglevel=7 of a usb boot (please tell me or give me some time to learn it). I will get back here with result as early as possible.

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#5 2017-08-14 13:06:38

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Re: uefi installation boot goes black screen; Ryzen 5 with geforce gt 730

V1del wrote:

There should be no issues booting from a UEFI with an nvidia card. can you add a loglevel=7 to those kernel parameters so we can check if there are any messages before the crash? It might also be a UEFI firmware issue on your particular motherboard, so you might want to check for updated firmware files.

How to get the loglevel=7 log when usb booting? where it will be stored? I will try to get loglevel=7.

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#6 2017-08-14 13:23:20

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Re: uefi installation boot goes black screen; Ryzen 5 with geforce gt 730

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
rameez wrote:

Can I run the installation in legacy mode and install the OS as a uefi + GPT system?

Yes, see my reply here:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p1730301

Very informative article. Can it be done in MBR partitioned disk?

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#7 2017-08-14 13:42:42

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Re: uefi installation boot goes black screen; Ryzen 5 with geforce gt 730

Usually you can (quickly) alter the kernel command line parameters in the boot loader menu (eg. grub2).

Your card is supported by nouveau (GK208).


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#8 2017-08-14 19:13:51

rameez
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Re: uefi installation boot goes black screen; Ryzen 5 with geforce gt 730

Maniaxx wrote:

Usually you can (quickly) alter the kernel command line parameters in the boot loader menu (eg. grub2).

I have tried nomodeset and nouveau.modeset=0 and got same result. Is there any other parameter I was missing?

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#9 2017-08-15 07:48:44

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Re: uefi installation boot goes black screen; Ryzen 5 with geforce gt 730

Yes, loglevel=7 ...

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#10 2017-08-19 23:48:05

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Re: uefi installation boot goes black screen; Ryzen 5 with geforce gt 730

rameez wrote:
Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
rameez wrote:

Can I run the installation in legacy mode and install the OS as a uefi + GPT system?

Yes, see my reply here:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p1730301

Very informative article. Can it be done in MBR partitioned disk?

You could try but I think your motherboard may require a GPT disk for that hack to work.

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