Forgive me if I am slightly on the wrong track here; but I have heard that some machines can boot with acpi switched off so maybe this is an option. I remember reading a Red Hat Linux article about some hardware shipping with buggy acpi firmware. A quick search; and I have found said article maybe it would help in this situation? I am no expert but often find many solutions to these sorts of problems scattered across the forums of Solus and other OS's.
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/58790
CANT BOOT AND INSTALL SOLUS GNOME
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Well, according to the link provided by @DJSupertel when starting Live Solus, press Tab and add acpi=off
at the end of the line. If that doesn't work, you can try adding noapic or nolapic, or all of them.
pomon tried doing all of them.
Acpi=off brings me to a black screen.
Noapic brings me to my error again thus nothing happened.
Nolapic brings me to an error but its like a shorter error. There was no failed to mount /sysroot and no emergency mode. Im starting to think its my laptop's problem. Have already tried ubuntu and two solus os versions and still nothing
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You can check it out yet acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2009"
. I asked you to provide a specification. What is your graphics card because the black screen is usually a problem with the graphics card drivers. You may need to add a parameter from modeset.
Options: acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2015"
or acpi=off nomodeset
Updating the BIOS can also cure this problem if the BIOS shipped had buggy firmware. ACPI off would mess up windows if you are trying to dual boot but as said above a black screen is usually a problem with the graphics card. Updating the BIOS was a tip given on a Ubuntu forum question I remember from some time last year when someone was faced with this problem.
Appreciate all the effort guys. Havent tried anything after doing the acpi thing. Thought that i should take a break. Wish me luck, although i have tested my ram using memtest86 i am still not satisfied so i am goinf to go test it again and see if it is my hardware or im just unlucky and stupid
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Just noticed that oftenly Shitdows 10 dont really shut down but it hibernates. Check that this is not the case. It can be pretty hard to tell...
That's a good point LunarResident! Maybe a hard shut down of windows 10 is the answer!
How to: https://www.howtogeek.com/349114/shutting-down-doesnt-fully-shut-down-windows-10-but-restarting-it-does/
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Funilly I seem to have the same problem in a new laptop. Solus wont boot hanging in a black screen with
Invalid acp audio mode: 0
Havent really tinkered the bios. Mint boots but trackpad is not working. Havent tested other distros yet.
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Linux13 Any updates on that?
maybe this can help you down in the comments is also your model...you probably need it for another os not for win7 like in video
okay I got it installed on my laptop now!!