Hello,
I am finally ready to move my daily driver notebook to OM and wanted to let you know about how it went and my struggles. So far no help needed and this is just informative for other users or the devs.
I have a SSD with Windows on the machine and another SSD with arch on luks encrypted btrfs. Since I want to run the arch installation in a VM on OM when I finished the move, I wanted to install OM on a new partition side by side to the arch installation.
So I booted the OM live iso with Ventoy (which works now!) and used the partition manager to shrink the partition. Here I expected some issues, but that also worked easy and flawless.
Then I tried installing OM on the new partition (option replace partition in the calamares installer), which gave me an error at the end of the installation process, which seems to be the same error as here (Installation from USB fails with bootloader script exception - #33 by 0x6A7232). So I tried the workaround by setting installEFIFallback to false in /etc/calamares/modules/bootloader.conf and reinstalled and that worked.
Then I tried booting into OM and of course, although I knew that this would be a problem, I installed the wayland znver version and have a nvidia dGPU and a second monitor connected to it and it showed only a black screen and nothing else (as already reported by several people). I tried removing all connected devices and booting the recovery mode (or what it is called in the boot menu), but still no luck. It only shows this
Loading Linux 6.14.0-desktop-20mv2590 ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...
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EFI stub: Loaded initrd from LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA_GUID device path
EFI stub: Measured initrd data into PCR 9
I then tried booting arch, which still worked and I also tried booting Windows, which still worked (from both the BIOS boot menu and from the OM grub boot menu). So that’s a good thing at least.
Now I am currently downloading the znver X11 version and try again. I’ll post here again and let you know how that went.
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OpenMandriva Lx version: OpenMandrivaLx.rolling-snapshot.20250326.3802-plasma6.znver1.iso
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Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…): KDE
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Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…): ROG Zephyrus G15 with AMD Ryzen CPU and a dGPU nvidia RTX 3080