updating initramfs loop
My Dell Precision 5620 tower with an AMD Radeon RX580 is looping on
Updating initramfs - Please wait, this may take a while
Is it normal for this to reboot and run again, like 3 times? I’m booting from (i.e., installed to) a USB SSD, if it complicated things…29 Replies
Maybe it is normal, it just got to updating kargs and I don’t think I saw that before.
I should look up wtf
bazzite-hardware-setup.service does, anyway. I kind of assumed Bazzite was just “kinoite + Steam + drivers” but I sure never saw these messages on Kinoitethere's a known issue with this, but it seemed to only affected nvidia laptops with hybrid graphics. the workaround was to plug a monitor into those laptops, or use the old online-only ISOs... (mixed results from using the old netinstaller)
but
No, I think it’s just looping…
this is different
Yeah, it’s definitely not a laptop
it does a lot more than this
There’s an intel igpu on my cpu though
well it being bazzite
But there’s no “hybrid” shit here, and nothing plugged into the iGPU out
that issue is most likely the new nvidia drivers anyways
thats when stuff happened
so idk whats going on here
there's no nvidia on your machine so maybe the USB SSD really throws a wrench into things
Definitely no Nvidia in there
Does it need an internet connection for first boot? My wired internet on that machine is NOT the way anaconda expected it
only when you reach the desktop for yafti
Hm. Let me see if I can just fit it onto one of my internal SSDs then. I really wanted to run from the USB but I can’t imagine why it’s boot looping
lmk if that fixes that
The only thing that could be different is if it configures itself for your hardware inside Anaconda or something
because that's another issue then
it does not
we're getting a new installer very soon
it's being worked on right now
i hope it fixes most of the issues we're experiencing now
idk if it will fix this stuff though
I did deploy it to the external SSD by booting a libvirt VM off the iso with the USB disk passed through to it
well it's still anaconda but it's improved to work with our OCI images
yeah this might be the issue. keep us posted if it works without doing this. i understand why you wanted to do this, i read #⭐general
Theres still no way to just deploy the OCI image to a raw disk or image from within a booted Linux is there? I have my own kinoite fork on my laptop
Ah, I guess not if you read #⭐general
heh i am not sure this is way beyond my expertise
well
Fair enough
i dont actually know
Let me look and see if I have space on either of my internal NVMe’s
yeah sorry for this, it'll be worse if it still does this after doing all of this 😞
(Jeez I just wanna play Alan wake II at this rate it would almost be better to just buy a better GPU lol)
I managed to free enough space to shrink one of my NTFS parts down by 250 GB, but now I’m waiting for Anaconda to finish its shrinking operation, and I can’t understate how unnerved I am. 😦 but it should be fine, and worst case there’s nothing important on this computer anyway since I almost exclusively use it for gaming
Updating kargs. Let’s see, hopefully it works this time. It’s installed on an internal NVMe now, and I booted the installer on the same machine I’m trying to ultimately boot from…
Well it booted! I guess I’ll close this thread, but it’s weird that it didn’t work. Maybe something weird happened with the USB passthrough when installing in the VM
glad it's working now. it's either that or the USB on the external SSD
Newest ISO will restart after initramfs/kargs on Nvidia hardware
May not fix black screen, but will stop tricking people into thinking the system is doing something
Do let me know if it works better for you
If you mean me, I don’t have any Nvidia hardware, so I can’t test this
yea this was most likely due to USB external SSD or installing in a VM