Howdy everyone!

Looking for some help, I am trying to install openSUSE tumbleweed, the issue is I get stuck at the boot screen, the one that says loading kernel… loading initial ramdisk…

The issue is I am not quite sure what to do to troubleshoot this, any advice would be appreciated. This also happens with every distro I try to install, I’ve tried Arch, Nix, openSUSE and Fedora.

  • Sandbag@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    I tried uploading a picture, but couldn’t figure out how, I will try again after work.

    As for some system information it’s an old Dell Optiplex 710 workstation, it’s has UEFI but no option to turn off secure boot.

    • The Optiplex 710 supposedly supports Ubuntu 10 and 11, so booting Linux should be possible. May require installing without UEFI, though.

      I know some distros have issues with old Intel GPUs, try booting with nomodeset and the other my-graphics-card-doesnt-work kernel parameters, and figure out what driver options you may need from there. You may need to boot a kernel older than Linux 6.3 for some VERY old GPU hardware to work.