X299 Problems Booting live ISO USB

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Hello all,

I have an Asrock X299 Gaming i9 xe with an NVIDIA RTX 2080, which I’ve been having some troubles getting Manjaro GNOME installed on. I’ve gotten it to boot a couple times from the live ISO but I’m having problems getting the ISO to boot currently. I’ve updated to my latest non-beta BIOS and just reinstalled Manjaro on y USB drive and tested that in another machine to prove that it functioned correctly.

I know that this is likely an NVIDIA driver issue with the boot installer as I’ve come across that a couple times in my research, however I have gotten to the desktop with previous configurations and selecting proprietary drivers.

Right now when I boot my Manjaro USB, it boots into a black screen with no text, flashing cursor, or even a flash of the Manjaro bootup screen.

Present BIOS settings are:
CSM Disabled
Secure Boot Disabled
TPM Disabled
RAID Disabled

My goal with this installation was to take my two Intel 256Gb NVME SSDs and learn how to install Manjaro in RAID 0, but so far I haven’t been able to do that because of Intel FakeRAID which I learned aout recently

Any help would be amazing! Thank you!

Lord MoMo his MoMo-ness

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Welcome back.

We could probably use some system information (see below).

Is the Manjaro ISO used the latest available? Note that a damaged ISO may still be bootable. Did you check it for consistency against the provided checksum?

Have you tried in this instance using the open source drivers?

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What method is being used to write the ISO to USB ?

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I’ve used both ISO Image Writer on a known working Manjaro installation with the latest updates as well as Rufus’s latest version on a known good working installation of Windows 11.

I ave confirmed with another computer that has successfully installed Manjrao in the past that the USB drive is working as expected.

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I did attempt to use the open source drives, but the desktop never loaded and froze on something like “Loading Plymoth Desktop” and never actually got the the desktop even after waiting for a day.

Thank you for the help!

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Nvidia is notorious for causing issues - that is how it is.

If the issue is plymouth

  • boot the iso
  • edit the menu entry
  • remove quiet splash from the kernel cmdline arguments
  • F10 to continue boot

An alternative is to

  • add rd.plymouth=0 plymouth.enable=0 to the cmdline
  • F10 to continue boot

See → [HowTo] Disable or Remove Plymouth (boot splash)

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use the propietary driver, the open-source-driver isn’t worth a try. the open-source driver works with very old cards.

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This may actually be good news; actionable, at least.

Plymouth is the ‘boot splash screen’ (typically the three dots animation) and historically, it can be the culprit behind many a failed boot.

Please follow the advice from @linux-aarhus (above).

Regards.

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