Solus 4 Budgie Live USB Fails

Justin

Johandherdt I never use anything but dd and have never had an issue. Granted it's command line and not for everyone. Someone needs to write a super simple dd interface.

dbarron

As scary and dangerous as it can be, dd is actually pretty simple, source and target devices, maybe block size, good to go 🙂

jayrivii

I signed up to the forum because I may have a fix/workaround for everyone.

From my reddit post:

UEFI/GPT- Alright people.. I purposely broke my first successful install and ended up installing another distro and I just now reinstalled Solus. I decided to take note of the steps I took in hopes it helps others. These are the steps I followed for my set up (intel i7 6700, Gigabyte MOBO, SSD and HDD, and nvidia1050ti)

⁠I backed up most of my data and installed Rescatux on USB.
⁠Repartitioned everything to GPT using gParted in Rescatux.
⁠Went into BIOS, disabled CSM under Windows 8/10 support.
⁠I enabled EFI for boot and other devices.
⁠I then changed it from Windows 8/10 to Other OS. All options under OS disappear. Save and exit.
⁠On BIOS Splash, go to boot options (F12 in my case) and select the usb that Solus is installed on.

You should now be greeted by the Budgie desktop in its full glory. I hope this helps anyone still stuck with this.

BIOS/MBR

Update: Legacy BIOS (MBR)

To boot from USB, I flashed the Solus iso using Rufus in iso mode (didn’t work for me in DD).

I pressed TAB as soon as the splash screen counting down appeared.

I deleted the words quiet splash while keeping everything else intact

In that same line I typed nomodeset [nomodeset —]

Once at tty login screen type root for user and root for PW.

At command prompt type sudo eopkg upgrade.

Once the updates are finished press CTRL, ALT and F7 at the same time.

You should now be in the live USB environment and be able to install Solus from USB.

😊 cheers!

PS. Im a Solus newb but lifelong nerd, I like breaking things.

jayrivii

jayrivii
EDIT: IMPORTANT! BIOS/MBR -ONLY

Once done with the above you have to update your drivers. Otherwise you will see a black screen after installation.

Once at boot menu and type e.

Find the last line referencing the kernel and before the part that mentions root, type nouveau.modeset= 0 then CTRL + X to boot.

Once at tty input the username and password created during install. Then type sudo eopkg it nvidia-glx-driver-current and reboot.

😊 cheers!

aalhitennf

Copypasting this from reddit for 1660Ti users:

Heres how i made it into live desktop with 1660Ti:

Ctrl+alt+F2 into login prompt when you get blinking underscore screen
Login with root/root
eopkg it nvidia-glx-driver-current
systemctl start lightdm
Now you should have desktop

You have to do same again after install but instead of root use your user/password and forget systemctl command just reboot for convenience

jayrivii

aalhitennf this worked for me on UEFI. The only difference for me was that lightdm would not start. I ended up going with sudo eopkg upgrade and rebooted.

aalhitennf

jayrivii thats probably because problem is slightly different because you have 1050Ti (1660Ti is newer Turing architechture and not yet supported by nouveau or kernel at all), but glad to hear you got it solved.

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