Cannot install Server

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Hello,

Requirements:

I have Searched the forum for my issue and found nothing related or helpful
[x] I have checked the Resources category (Resources Index)
[x] I have reviewed the Wiki for relevant information
[x] I have read the the Release Notes and Errata

Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):

None - Server installation

Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):

I bought a new server (AMD Ryzen 9950X, ASUS X870 MAX motherboard).
I downloaded OpenMandriva-Lx-znver1-rolling-3762.img
I burnt in into a bootable usb (64GB) and tried to install. Grub menu loads, I choose the first option (OpenMandriva) and then the installation hangs. The last thing I see is “efi stub measured initrd data into pcr 9”
I tried to “disable” secure boot in my bios menu (selected "Secure Boot Mode “custom” and deleted all keys) but no luck. Any advice most welcome

Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):

AMD Ryzen 9950X, ASUS X870 MAX motherboard

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The version you downloaded seems old.

How did you make the boot disk? It sounds like you didn’t search the forum or read our documentation.

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That is the latest version the website directs you to, if you pick ROME server Ryzen btrfs. Maybe we need to build another image and update the link on the website.

@alkismavridis I have had success with the Federated Computer aarch64 image. Here’s a link to the Ryzen one: Product ROME server ryzen federated.computer - - Openmandriva ABF

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I am really sorry. I put “server” on the forum search yesterday and got no results. Now I put it (from my mobile) and I get tones of results.

Probably I messed up with the forum UI :man_facepalming:

Sorry.

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Thank you so much for the link! I will try it out tonight and post my results here.

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I tried the image you referenced. Still no luck unfortunatelly. After grub menu I get no output whatsoever. Just blank black screen.

I burn the image with:

sudo dd bs=4M if=/home/almav/Downloads/OpenMandriva-Lx-znver1-rolling-4299.img of=/dev/sda status=progress oflag=sync
sudo sync

I also tried to enter grub menu by pressing e and added “nomodeset” at the second like (linux). This did not improve the situation

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Well, that stinks. I used the aarch64 img and got it to boot successfully on a Libre Computer Renegade this past summer, and it’s still humming along just fine (running Nextcloud). AFAIK, the Federated Computer images are used by Federated Computer, so they should be good.

Any chance there’s a BIOS setting (secure boot, etc.) interfering?

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Related - when you removed secure boot did you maybe disable uefi and put it into legacy mode?

I think they call it CSM or something like that

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Yeah I also saw this somewhere, I think he should try
Fast Boot - can you see if that is disabled?
CSM support - trying with that disabled first would be my suggestion
Secure Boot - you said that is disabled
NVMe RAID mode - i have read raid may be problematic for mint (and linux in general possibly)
TPM Switch - don’t know that that is, but if it is security related you could try disabling
Trusted Computing 2.0 - same there. try disabling to see if it might make any difference
I got this from
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Fast Boot was enabled. I disabled it but had no better results.

CSM is disabled and there seems no way to enable it at all

NVMe RAID is disabled

fTPM is in option “Enable Firmware TPM”.
The only other option is “Enable Discrete TPM“.
There seems to not be a “disable” option.

Trusted Conputing 2.0 says “detacted” and there seems to be no option to disable it.

By the way I tried to install Ubuntu Server 25.10 and it was successful (even with the Fast boot enabled).

I use openmandriva for my desktop, of course, so it would be super awesome if I could use it on my home server too.

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I just noticed this in your original post. Does this mean secure boot is not disabled? It definitely won’t install if it’s enabled. What kind of BIOS do you have?

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You could try the non-ryzen x86 build from a few days ago

And then there’s the rock image from sourceforge

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I have the one shipping with ASUS X870 MAX by default.

Here is the info:

sudo dmidecode -t bios
# dmidecode 3.6
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 3.6.0 present.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 26 bytes
BIOS Information
        Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
        Version: 1087
        Release Date: 09/19/2025
        Address: 0xF0000
        Runtime Size: 64 kB
        ROM Size: 32 MB
        Characteristics:
                PCI is supported
                BIOS is upgradeable
                BIOS shadowing is allowed
                Boot from CD is supported
                Selectable boot is supported
                BIOS ROM is socketed
                EDD is supported
                Japanese floppy for NEC 9800 1.2 MB is supported (int 13h)
                Japanese floppy for Toshiba 1.2 MB is supported (int 13h)
                5.25"/360 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
                Serial services are supported (int 14h)
                Printer services are supported (int 17h)
                CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
                ACPI is supported
                USB legacy is supported
                BIOS boot specification is supported
                Targeted content distribution is supported
                UEFI is supported
        BIOS Revision: 10.87

Handle 0x004B, DMI type 13, 22 bytes
BIOS Language Information
        Language Description Format: Long
        Installable Languages: 9
                en|US|iso8859-1
                fr|FR|iso8859-1
                zh|TW|unicode
                zh|CN|unicode
                ja|JP|unicode
                de|DE|iso8859-1
                es|ES|iso8859-1
                ru|RU|iso8859-5
                ko|KR|unicode
        Currently Installed Language: en|US|iso8859-1

There is no option to disable secure boot, just to set it to “custom” and delete all keys. From what I read on the internet, this is equivalent to disabling it

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Unfortunatelly the x86 image you reference produces the same behaviour. Blank blank screen with no feedback. Not sure whether there is an issue with the screen output or with the installation itself. Unfortunatelly I cannot tell the difference and I do not have a screen to test it with.

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Just to eliminate everything else, if you can…

  1. Grab the rock install iso desktop ryzen from sourceforge. Can you install that?

  2. Grab the cooker destop iso Does that one work?

I know we’re talking server here, but for all we know there was a compiler flag missed on the server builds and nobody caught it