Linux Installation Issues
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@scottalanmiller said in Linux Installation Issues:
@DustinB3403 said in Linux Installation Issues:
Did you say you reinstalled windows to the spinner, and were going to install Mint to the SSD? Where is the Mint ISO being run from?
Does a livecd run just fine?
Who has CDs? It's 2016 for goodness sake!
Which it why it drives me bat-**** crazy
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@nadnerB said in Linux Installation Issues:
Did you disable secure boot in the UEFI?
Testing this now.
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@DustinB3403 said in Linux Installation Issues:
@scottalanmiller said in Linux Installation Issues:
@DustinB3403 said in Linux Installation Issues:
Did you say you reinstalled windows to the spinner, and were going to install Mint to the SSD? Where is the Mint ISO being run from?
Does a livecd run just fine?
Who has CDs? It's 2016 for goodness sake!
LiveCD, not bootable CD....... fine LiveUSB (better)?
goodness sake....
Live is the only install method for Mint.
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No luck changing secure boot to off. Same behavior.
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What about some other distro, just for testing? Could be a bad or missing kernel driver for example
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Is there by any chance a NVidia card in that system? Noticed the nouveau driver. Can you disable the NVidia card (e.g. second onboard card)?
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@thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:
Is there by any chance a NVidia card in that system? Noticed the nouveau driver. Can you disable the NVidia card (e.g. second onboard card)?
Yes there is. And yes I did, so it's out of the picture now.
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@thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:
What about some other distro, just for testing? Could be a bad or missing kernel driver for example
Tried that too, basically the same thing.
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Tried booting from DVD instead, and it behaves very different. Takes maybe ten minutes, is very slow and eventually drops me to a root login, which is useless as there is no password. So something is wrong but who knows what it is. But it is getting much farther, but not in a useful way.
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https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2312977&p=13437524#post13437524
Could you check oldfred's post (#7) and the following post #9? Looks like ASUS ROG is know for needing a kernel parameter, pci=nomsi.
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@thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2312977&p=13437524#post13437524
Could you check oldfred's post (#7) and the following post #9? Looks like ASUS ROG is know for needing a kernel parameter, pci=nomsi.
Testing this one now.
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Start up is still painfully slow. It'll be a bit before I know if this worked or not.
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@scottalanmiller said in Linux Installation Issues:
Start up is still painfully slow. It'll be a bit before I know if this worked or not.
Looks like something is waiting for timeout
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@thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:
@scottalanmiller said in Linux Installation Issues:
Start up is still painfully slow. It'll be a bit before I know if this worked or not.
Looks like something is waiting for timeout
Sort of, but it just keeps moving as well.
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@scottalanmiller so you got further than before?
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@thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:
@scottalanmiller so you got further than before?
Nope, it just dropped me at the stupid login prompt again
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@scottalanmiller said in Linux Installation Issues:
@thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:
@scottalanmiller so you got further than before?
Nope, it just dropped me at the stupid login prompt again
You get to a non-X login prompt? I thought your system is freezing while loading kernel modules
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@thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:
@scottalanmiller said in Linux Installation Issues:
@thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:
@scottalanmiller so you got further than before?
Nope, it just dropped me at the stupid login prompt again
You get to a non-X login prompt? I thought your system is freezing while loading kernel modules
No, it gets to a useless prompt. A prompt means that it has failed. It is supposed to drop to a live desktop that allows for doing installs.
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@scottalanmiller said in Linux Installation Issues:
@thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:
@scottalanmiller said in Linux Installation Issues:
@thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:
@scottalanmiller so you got further than before?
Nope, it just dropped me at the stupid login prompt again
You get to a non-X login prompt? I thought your system is freezing while loading kernel modules
No, it gets to a useless prompt. A prompt means that it has failed. It is supposed to drop to a live desktop that allows for doing installs.
Ah ok, assumed something else when I had a look at the picture you posted above. Sorry, can't help here - you are probably much more proficient with desktops on Linux.
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@scottalanmiller how about trying this. Found it in ask Ubuntu:
I carried out a fresh install of 16.04 on my ASUS GL552VW.
The only additional GRUB parameters I entered (for installation and normal boot) were:
nouveau.modeset=0To stop Nouveau from taking over.
Once I'd installed the nVidia 361.42 drivers, through the Additional Drivers tab in Software Updater, I had to disable Secure Boot. (Secure boot stops unsigned kernel modules loading)
With those settings, everything works. Touchpad, Skylake support, nVidia graphics @ 1920x1080, Wifi, Bluetooth, keyboard backlight.
Installation of 16.04 is much less hassle than previous versions.
