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Cannot Install openSUSE or any other Distro (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Howdy everyone!

Looking for some help, I am trying to install openSUSE tumbleweed, the issue is I get stuck at the boot screen, the one that says loading kernel... loading initial ramdisk...

The issue is I am not quite sure what to do to troubleshoot this, any advice would be appreciated. This also happens with every distro I try to install, I've tried Arch, Nix, openSUSE and Fedora.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm running a very old dell optiplex 710, it has uefi but no option to turn off secure boot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The messages you're getting sound like they're from the bootloader, so I think secure boot is not causing the problem... Linux should print some stuff right away when it loads, maybe check the architecture of the kernel you're trying to boot, even an error immediately after loading the kernel should print something unless the architecture is so different that it's just feeding the CPU bad instructions... Not sure how the bootloader would get installed correctly in that situation though. Is this after installation? Does the system boot from a live USB or cdrom?