I am trying to boot a Live USB of netrunner 2016.1 64bit on a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 series, with an NVidia GeForce GTX graphics card. However, it always hangs at boot regardless of whether I choose default or non-free option. Also, the problem is present for UEFI and Legacy boot.
The machine came pre-installed with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, UEFI boot. I have turned SecureBoot OFF.
When I attempt to boot netrunner, it hangs in one of 2 possible ways:
A start job is running for LiveMedia MHWD Script (no limit)
which, if I press any button, gives me the message
plymouthd: could not start boot splash: No such file or directory
Starting Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit...
Starting terminate Plymouth Boot Screen...
In both cases, a hard reboot is required, since Ctrl-Alt-Del just starts another non-ending job. I’ve waited as much as 40’, jobs keep going.
I’ve burned the ISO 3-4 times, always with the same results. Manjaro 16.06.1 also hangs in the exact same way.
You have a hybrid graphics system, the Intel card would be the default and the nvidia would be the secondary card.
Could you give the output of the following command?
I don’t think that the nouveau driver is the issue here.
I think the issue in this case is that the Intel chip is a Skylake GPU, these are known to cause random lockups with kernels prior to 4.6.
However, you should be able to get around this disabling hardware acceleration for the Intel chip. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/intel_graphics#Skylake_support
Just keep in mind that under Netrunner Rolling (Manjaro) the config file would be located under /etc/X11/mhwd.d/intel.conf and NOT /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf.
You could try adding nomodeset the the boot options of syslinux on the live media.
Another option would be to disable the Intel GPU in the bios (UEFI) completely, and use only the nvidia GPU.
Yes and No, If you plan on keeping the 4.4 kernel on the installed system then yes, if not then you would use mhwd-kernel to install the 4.6 kernel series as these bugs were fixed in that kernel.
sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux46
To remove the current (4.4 series) kernel in the same step:
sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux46 rmc
I would normally point you to the Manjaro wiki for this, but the security certificates are still not valid for the wiki.
Not all laptops have this option. but to disable the intel GPU in the bios it would say something like use discrete video only or something along those lines.
If nothing else works, you might try three other, less elegant methods. Try to boot with:
[list]
[]nomodoset parameter
[]vga=789 or vga=895 parameter
[*]removing the splash parameter from boot line (this will disable plymouth on boot)
[/list]Use only one option on each boot. Good luck
Which Dell Inspiron 15 7000 series is this exactly?
From my research of the motherboard listed in your inxi output, it looks like a 7559, but I need to be sure.
You may need to disable kms for both chips.
That’s right, it is a 7559.
I will try your instructions later today, and let you know if it worked.
What’s strange is that, from what I gather, Manjaro 16.06 should have worked – it runs a 4.4.x kernel. If everything else fails, I will even consider installing Arch.
OK, I did some futher testing with Arch-based distros.
I managed to boot into GUI with KaOS 2016.06, setting boot options
nouveau.modeset=0 i915.modeset=1 radeon.modeset=0
AFAIK, I was using the Intel Skylake GPU in that session. KaOS Live runs a 4.6.2 kernel, which means that if I wait, some future Netrunner Rolling snapshot might possibly support my machine.
You should be able to use the same boot options using the boot option line of our live media’s syslinux screen.
Please let me know if that works or not, as the issue could be mhwd itself.