I am trying to install tumbleweed on my 2020 Zephyrus G14, but it gets stuck at “Loading basic drivers” (with nothing else written when I press Esc).
Googling I’ve noticed that other people have had the same issue (even 7 years ago), but as far as I can tell no has even attempted to address this.
My question is:
Why is this considered ok? Why does openSUSE insist on being different from 99% of distros that install from a live USB, even though it leads to ridiculous stuff like this?
Maybe the causality is not there, but it’s still something that the average Linux user will not know how to deal with, let alone someone new to Linux.
I’m just looking for a decent rolling release distro and I’ve heard people praising tumbleweed, but then there is this weird roadblock…
Hi. Thank you for the welcome, the quick reply and the recommendation.
That did make the installation boot. As far as I can tell the problem is with all nvidia gpus that are not well supported by the Nouveau drivers. I guess that means it’s not related to the installation method, though that is still a big question mark for me, personally.
Is there a way to detect the gpu in the boot commands and automatically add the nomodeset accordingly? Otherwise the only solution would be to add it by default, but I’m not sure if that would create other problems.
I’d be happy to make a bug report (I’ll look into how to do it properly), but I’m not sure if I’d have time to contribute with my hardware, to be honest…
@filipCve I would then try simplefb=0 instead of nomodeset, but during the install you can add the proprietary drivers and that should take care of the issue after the install is completed.
So is this intel and nvidia gpu? If so, then there are other options.
My specific laptop is amd + nvidia, but I don’t think the cpu matters. (Unless the integrated gpu is also a problem…?)
In any case, I’m hoping that there is a way to solve this without user intervention (i.e. independent of cpu).
What would simplefb=0 do?
I just checked - the network installer doesn’t have an issue, which is to be expected, I guess…
@filipCve hybrid/optimus graphics, amd/nvidia (and my laptop which is amd/amd dual graphics but I only needs the one driver so all good) is not as common as intel/nvidia.
The simplefb=0 should turn off the switching and use radeon or amdgpu, what era is the AMD GPU? I suspect early hardware detection is the issue… But if that works, then the grub entry simplefb=0 will also be needed going forward, as in after the install.
Does the net install have graphics or is it the text (ncurses based) UI, that is also the option to try on the full install DVD is to select (I think F2) for text based.
Is it possible to turn off the dGPU (Nvidia) from the system BIOS temporarily until the install is finished?
Hi Malcolm,
Sorry for not replying sooner, I had a bit of a busy week.
It seems that this issue has actually already been fixed. Last week I downloaded the offline installer as well, but then didn’t have time to test it. Tested it today, and there is a hardware detection step after the “Loading basic drivers” bit and then the installer starts without problems.
It’s good that I went to double check with the latest snapshot before reporting a bug
