Hi there,
I was brave enough to buy this ARM 64 based laptop:
It works great with Windows but I would like to have Linux (dual boot).
First things I did was
- shrinking the SSD partition of windows so I have lots of unused space for linux partion
- disable secure boot (just to reduce problems with Linux, still happy to re-enable but for the moment I just want to get it working somehow after all)
- downloaded and installed rufus for ARM64 on my Win11
- downloaded openSUSE Tumbleweed for ARM64 from openSUSE Tumbleweed - Get openSUSE and I picked the aarch64 download links
- flashed the ISO to my USB-Stick
- reboot into recovery
- select to boot from USB-Stick
- select to install in the bootloader
And here comes my problem:
The kernel crashes after printing “EFI stub: Exiting boot services…”
I tried both the offline and the network image both with the same result.
Would you have any hint what else I could try (tweak some other BIOS options)?
Is ARM64 actually already supported by OpenSUSE or is the ISO I downloaded actually for experiments on Mac with Mx CPUs?
Any other hints?
Thank you so much in advance for your help.
BTW: I was using Ubuntu and Linux Mint on x86 years ago and always had hard times when major upgrades were due and both distros managed to entirely mess my installation requiring full backup. That was when I switched to Tumbleweed with evergreen updates, A/B bootloader and BRTFS support with snapshot recovery. I really love it and want to thank you for doing an awesome job. I am myself an OSS developer and bught this ARM64 laptop to build and test my future software releases for ARM. I would love to get Linux on my new device and ideally keep my good experience with Tumbleweed.
