Solus GNOME boot problem in UEFI.

RLFontan

Hey!

Guys i was distro-hopping into Solus Gnome the other day and i had a hard time to install it. I have a Nvidia PC and i was going on a UEFI install. I was able to do the install just fine, and i could find the UEFI partition on the boot manager of the bios, but the system was booting on a black screen.

So i started to try to find a way to boot on CLI from the boot manager but i couldn't find it on Solus doc. Also seems that Solus, like many other distros, is using bootctl without any time to choose boot options, so i was just booting really fast on a black screen.

So i was researching about a way to see the boot manager before booting, and in Pop_OS! docs i found something about pressing SPACE button to see the boot manager. Funny thing: i did it on my Solus GNOME install, and instead of opening the boot manager, it just did the boot process normally, without any black screen.

That's it guys, I'm not using Solus right now, but i really like the distro, and i came here to give this feedback since i thought it could be useful.

Ty for the attention!

Justin

RLFontan Should probably send the feedback to NVIDIA really. They're the ones that won't provide access to information to make the open source driver work with newer cards.

DataDrake

RLFontan sudo clr-boot-manager set-timeout <seconds>

On some cards the driver takes awhile to initialize and timing spacebar is much harder. This adds a mandatory timeout.

Justin

DataDrake && sudo clr-boot-manger update 😉

RLFontan

Thanks for the attention guys. I also think talking about the space key may help someone.

I have an additional thing to say: I distro-hopped to Solus Budgie right now and i didn't had the same problem. Maybe the problem had something to do with gdm? Budgie uses lightdm and GNOME gdm right?

Justin

RLFontan Budgie uses lightdm and GNOME gdm right?

Correct.

As for it being the issue I find it unlikely but there was a GNOME stack update recently, so..