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Cannot Install openSUSE or any other Distro (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The Optiplex 710 supposedly supports Ubuntu 10 and 11, so booting Linux should be possible. May require installing without UEFI, though.

I know some distros have issues with old Intel GPUs, try booting with nomodeset and the other my-graphics-card-doesnt-work kernel parameters, and figure out what driver options you may need from there. You may need to boot a kernel older than Linux 6.3 for some VERY old GPU hardware to work.