this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2025
30 points (96.9% liked)

Linux

60695 readers
366 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/54075197

ArchLinux doesn't boot past the bootloader

I'm able to get to the BIOS on my desktop. But when greeted by the boot loader to choose between Arch or Arch fallback, after choosing, I lose display.

Sometimes I can get display, but its not consistent. Draining my computers power by unplugging the power cord and holding the power button works sometimes. Sometimes a simple reboot will work.

I have an Asus b550m-plus motherboard. It was working great with Arch until recently.

Edit: it uses by press e at the boot loader then putting nomodeset at the end, but the display is choppy compared to when its able to boot without it.

I'm using the systemd-boot loader.

I have a 6900xt GPU. The post I cross posted has more information in the comments. One common error I'm getting is:

probe with driver amdgpu failed with error -22

Here is what my GPU is:

lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display'

09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 21 [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT] (rev c0) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device 232c Kernel modules: amdgpu 09:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio Controller

This is my systemd-boot /boot/loader/entries/ -- conf file:

# Created by: archinstall
# Created on: 2025-07-06_15-37-58
title   Arch Linux (linux)
linux   /vmlinuz-linux
initrd  /initramfs-linux.img
options cryptdevice=PARTUUID=fg45ehg45-uj675-j76-j76-56756uj56j6:root root=/dev/mapper/root zswap.enabled=0 rootflags=subvol=@ rw rootfstype=btrfs splash
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Nomodeset is disabling all DRI kernel modules related to videocard so no surprise that u cannot modprobe it .just for test to u have windows somewhere on second disk to test if problem repeating there too to exclude hardware problem

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fedora is causing the same problem now.

I just tried booting into Windows instead, and no problems.

[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The only my possible suppose that there are something wrong with current driver of and amd team fucked possibly. Can u load on arch and using ssh to collect logs from dmesg about amdgpu module

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can load arch by turning on nomodeset, then get the logs if that counts.

[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately no u need load in usual mode and using ssh from phone for example connect to ur PC to collect logs

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Fedora is able to modprobe amdgpu, which my current installed Arch cannot.