You could burn it to a dvd if you have a drive
If you really, really need ventoy:
Yeah, not possible. I made this thread originally because I was having massive issues installing OpenMandriva with Ventoy and no solution really worked out. My best guess is that Ventoy just isnât good for OpenMandriva in its current state and unless the devs and the Ventoy devs somehow find a solution I will just try other methods.
It looks like the issue is at least known and this report from the OMD dev hopefully will lead to Ventoy getting fixed.
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In the mean time, if you have Windows, give balenaEtcher a try. I think youâll be pleased.
Ventoy doesnât put out new releases every month, but they do increase the number of distros they support with each new release.
Okay, so the link I provided did not work?
It worked in that I got it to install. The issue is that it doesnât solve other issues I am having with the installations. I am getting black screens with the installers using Ventoy for non-Wayland versions of Rome and once I have it installed using that method you linked I get immediate black screens upon login or after BIOS has loaded. That is why I was asking about other alternatives to Ventoy.
Once I have time over the weekend I will try Balena Etcher instead as suggested. 
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Please also try Rock if you havenât already. So we can see if the driver in that release works and then we can try to upgrade to ROME after the nvidia driver is installed.
@zeroability All right, so I have had some time to sit down and troubleshoot what my issues are. Balena Etcher only managed to get Wayland of Rome to work just like on Ventoy, the only difference being the bug regarding having to open the console to access a specific file during installation.
I tried installing all the latest changes multiple times and got a black screen. However, the last time I tried I instead decided not to install the Nvidia drivers and just update the rest. I am now running Wayland 25.01 Rome with the 6.12.9 kernel and I was able to reboot and log in multiple times. So it is the Nvidia drivers, specifically 565 that are causing issues. I need a working and stable Nvidia driver, since as of now I am having massive issue with my 13 inch Wacom Cintiq, which is also causing graphical crashes and issues, so I had to unplug my Wacom to properly troubleshoot what exactly was going on.
So to summarise, I now need Nvidia and my Wacom/OpenTabletDrivers up and running and hopefully OpenMandriva should be stable enough. How do I install an older version of Nvidia?
I also need to use Timeshift to backup the system so I donât have to start from scratch all over again. Do I need to install that software or does OMD come with its own type of Timeshift?
I just built this PC several days ago. I tried to run Wayland with my Nvidia card. When I downloaded it, I was not aware that the ISO would not allow you to chose one or the other at the logon screen. I had it all running flawlessly without the Nvidia card, but as soon as I plugged it in and powered up, it was a bad scene.
On X11 I can run Steam and play games with the Nvidia card installed. Everything is great. Maybe, one day Wayland will be good, but not yet.
I hope you can get this working, but Nvidia and Wayland is a no go.
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Thanks for telling me! I will just be patient then. I am in no hurry to switch from Linux Mint, since I am still just trying things out. I just need OpenMandriva up and running and right now it works fine. I am excited to get HDR to work on my G9 Odyssey ultra-widescreen monitor eventually, since I saw that being an option. Sadly my PC was lagging hard with a maxed out CPU and then after a reboot I just got black screens with the latest Nvidia drivers.
It would be nice if I could activate X11 on this installation, since Wayland was the only workable way I could install OMD Rome. I honestly wish that the ISO just installed both versions, since there is a clear transition period from X11 and Wayland as we speak.
You canât change between the two. You would have to reinstall with the X11 iso.
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Okay, based on some of your requirements and troubleshooting so far I might have some other things to recommend.
- Make sure you BIOS is up to date.
- Limit the hardware you are plugging in to just basic equipment (mouse, keyboard, onboard video if available with other GFX cards removed) with VGA or DVI if you can
- Use Rock version 5.0
znver1iso with x11 live and create the usb withddand not ventory, balena, or any other utility
Let me know what you discover and what changes you had to make from the suggestions I provided above.
plasma6-wacomtablet should install everything you need.
timeshift is also in the repos.
Once you have a working version of Rock and the performance is good we can get to nvidia drivers.
Although the problem remains, I am glad you were able to use balenaEtcher. It seemed to have worked well. Though, the problem of Nvidia remains. Sorry, my friend! Thatâs not fun.
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Yep! Though, after I just decided to not install any Nvidia driver and just let the default driver be from the clean install, everything else is working just fine from a stability standpoint. The stuff I canât do right now is gaming related and using my Wacom tablet, including certain display settings like HDR. I am simply just going to wait for a new Nvidia driver to come out and try that one out to see if I can do more than just basic stuff. I was only really interested in trying out Wayland on a rolling distro anyway because I am pretty much content with the stability that Linux Mint has to offer.
I am honestly very positive to the distro due to how customisable, clean looking, and easy it is to use despite just having started using it for a few hours. Besides the GPU stuff everything else is basically working out of the box with a lot of quality of life features that Linux Mint simply lacks. Wayland is also very smooth and stable in spite of having no latest Nvidia driver, so it bodes well for the future once the drivers are finally fixed.
I do wish though that X11 and Wayland were a single installation like Mint does it. Makes it easier to test things out until Wayland is ready to fully replace X11. I also wish that the driver repositories allowed for more than just the 565 drivers. Been looking everywhere online, but I canât find any information about expanding the library of drivers so I can downgrade to something more stable than 565 like I can in Linux Mint.
Got wacomtablet and timeshift to install without issue. Thanks!
I sadly do not have the time to try out Rock right now. I was primarily interested in trying out Wayland and a rolling distro for the first time. I would rather just have a way to try and install an Nvidia driver that is not 565. Been trying to find ways to downgrade, but the tools available in the distro do not seem to point out how to install anything else but the latest drivers.
Speaking of which, the 570 drivers have started to pop up lately. Any idea on when those will become available? Heard that Nvidia are working fixing more Wayland problems lately.
If you have ROME working, then go for it. I thought it was not working. As far as wayland and nvidia, we are really at their mercy. If you are not able to get the proprietary driver to work, we have people testing the open one. Details are pinned in the Support section. Since you can snapshot with timeshift, give it a try if you want and let us know if that improves things. If you want x11 on a wayland install, just sudo dnf in task-plasma6-x11. It helps to keep the install image size smaller doing it that way.
Unfortunately, we donât have the resources (cards or people) to test all 3 levels of nvidiaâs driver offerings. The next best thing we can do is the new feature branch, which is probably the best option given how recent of a kernel we tend to package. The *nix driver page doesnât have the version number you specified on it yet:
You should still check to see if your motherboardâs BIOS is up to date. Just in case there are other issues that are complicating the nvidia driver. Ubuntu ships with an older kernel and a BIOS update could resolve other problems that are making the graphics card misbehave.
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Thanks! I just had time to try this and I got an error about the âgccâ package missing and finding the development tool âccâ. What do I need to install that?