error must load the kernal first. Looks like a common error
I did my own research first looking for the common work arounds. And for my issue its weird because its not booting into bazzite after disabling secure boot. I just get this. I need help please.
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i386/efi ? Is this a surface or other device from late 2000s / early 2010s?
My fried recently had a similar thing after one of the latest Windows updates. Not on Bazzite, but still
Kernel regression maybe? Does your friend use a rolling release distro?
That was actually CachyOS install USB
Same thing also happened with GParted live install
Fedora was fine though
(he was trying to troubleshoot his broken windows install after an update)
Sounds like secure boot enabled
yeah the kernel is there but isn't signed so secure boot causes the load command to fail
so grub just continues to the boot command which fails without a kernel loaded hence the error
not sure why the devs don't make the load command print an error
Do it yourself :)
Make a pull request
They can't catch everything
oh i noticed at the top it says can\t allocate kernel
i'm guessing grub uses the firmware's standrd load function to load the kernel the function does the check the check fails & so does the function
grub doesn't really know why it failed
jiust that it did
weirdest thing i've seen was on mint
somebody installed mint switched to a new GPU from NVIDIA to AMD i think
they enabled secure boot & forgot
so the NVIDIA kernel driver wouldn't load
so they were left at a black screen post login
with just a cursor
were able to open a terminal & it was only then when we tried loading nvidia with modprobe that we figured out that the cause was secure boot
I havn't turned on my computer since last night after having the problem
I figured I was gonna get used to life without a PC until someone has a command for me to try
sorry this isnt my main account so I wont reply immediately here.
this is not a surface tablet or laptop its an Amd ryzen 9 gygabite elite wifi x70 nvidia geforce rtx 2060 desktop
Still keeping my computer off until someone has a solution
hmm i do have an idea
you mentioned disabling secure boot
did you actually save?
after doing that
Yes
I usually do
All I need really is some kind of command that can boot me back into Bazzite OS
I was watching a video for this error
But I think its not the same error
But similar
And so there for the common commands are not working
that's what i have an idea about
Awesome! I could really use any help you got cuz ever since the problem Ive kept my computer off I actually resorted to using my phone as a PC for discord for the time being. Its ok but still not desirable
btw do both of the bazzite boot options fail?
Everything I tried did not work as it did for the tutorial that I watched showing it