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Cannot Install openSUSE or any other Distro (self.linux)

submitted 11 months ago by Sandbag 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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[–] videogamesandbeer 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can you share some details about the machine you're trying to install it on? Are you able to boot a live image?

[–] mvirts 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes this. Imagine posting to a stack themed site, your question would be closed for being incomplete. A screenshot of the failed boot would be great, and some info about the options you chose when installing and the type of machine you're using.

[–] Sandbag 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I tried uploading a picture, but couldn't figure out how, I will try again after work.

As for some system information it's an old Dell Optiplex 710 workstation, it's has UEFI but no option to turn off secure boot.

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