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ykonstant

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Registered: 2020-01-07

Posts: 19

Live USB black screen after booting

Hello all;

I am trying to boot the Arch linux live usb on an MSI laptop.

The boot process proceeds seemingly fine after I choose the default UEFI boot, with the [OK] messages showing up normally, but just as it is about to present the prompt at the end of booting, the screen instead goes black.  It seems I can still enter commands, since I successfully `reboot`ed through the black screen.  Can anyone help with this?  If it is a driver issue, is there any fallback I can use to not load the driver?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Live USB black screen after booting

What GPU(s) does your system use?

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Live USB black screen after booting

Going a step further and assuming some modern fom of nvidia, add nomodeset to the kernel parameters by pressing 'e' on the boot menu: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … figuration