Hey, recently decided to branch out and try holoiso. As a big fan of my steam deck, I really want to try this out.

I flashed the img onto a flash drive, and everything seemed fine, had a few issues installing it, it would fail seemingly randomly. But retrying it would succeed, there was never any fail code or anything.

After installing ot, it fails to boot. Secure boot is off, uefi is on, everything is saying it should work.

All that being said, I’m very new to arch Linux and the many variations, so I may have missed something simple. I can provide further details upon request, since I’m sure I missed stuff.

  • Toes♀English
    4·
    10 months ago

    Try a different flash drive and try erasing the first MB of the target installation drive before installation.

    Confirm that you’re booting via UEFI.

    There’s a known issue that it won’t boot on a Ryzen 7xxx series cpu.

    Also there’s a known issue that it has poor support for Nvidia.

    You might have a better time asking their community. They link to it in their readme.

    Edit: if you’re new to Linux, this will be a poor experience. It’s basically an early access OS, with missing features and buggy everything.

    • Harvey656@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      It looks like it might be my Nvidia card, I’m aware it’s an EA os, youtube made me think it was a simple install with little issues. Maybe I should try other places to look for information next time.

      • Toes♀English
        1·
        10 months ago

        manjaro is quite similar to the steamdeck os if you use KDE. That has the benefits of being on a popular distro.

        • Harvey656@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          I tried KDE Neon, and I like it but I broke it in seconds after installing Nvidia drivers, would manjaro be more stable do you think?

          • Toes♀English
            1·
            10 months ago

            If you want a more stable os, kubuntu lts. It makes installing nvidia drivers pretty straightforward.

            • Harvey656@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              I’ll try them both out.

              The more I look into everything, the more Nvidia cards look like a pain.

  • Ignotum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    What do you mean it fails to boot? Do you just get to a blank screen?

    I installed it a few days ago to try it out, and had the same issues, but that was due to me having an nvidia card, i used the “HoloISO experimental gpu” release (it was called aomething like that) and that solved that issue, still had graphical issues but i was able to use it at least

    If the drive doesn’t show up as a bootable option in the bios, i had that isue too and solved it by installing it to a secondary harddrive (the primary was available after booting and was working well, so not sure what that was all about)

    • Harvey656@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      This exactly. Seems it still has a ton of issues with Nvidia cards.

      I’ll try that version today, see if I can have the same results.