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Bazzite•2y ago•
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Lauraposs the Fluffy

Bazzite doesn't boot on steam deck

Basically like it says, i'm on a fresh install with the newest image downloaded a few hours ago from the website. The first boot went normal, i set-up everything, logged into steam then rebooted.
It then shows the boot animation, afterward just boots into a black screen.
I tried to CTRL+ALT+F2 to switch TTY, but it doesn't even fully show up before it seems to freeze.
I'm not even able to get to GRUB since i have it set to hide it, but since i can only hard reset the Deck it doesn't seem to recognize that i'm pressing esc.
Solution
Well, my way to solve this:
-> Plug deck into a dock with monitor an keyboard access
-> Go into tty2 during boot, then run an update
-> reboot, go into tty2 again on the reboot and wait a bit
-> go back to tty1 and wait till you see language select
-> fingers crossed it works
-> unplug and select language
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