ROME Plasma6 x86_64 and znver1 isos are available for testing here. Users are encouraged to help us test these. Your input can help us make ROME Plasma6 better.
Edit 2024-05-24: I have tested that these isos do boot in VirtualBox in OM Cooker or ROME host system. I have tested that these do boot on my laptop. It appears that the Calamares installer is working as well. Will be installing the znver1 iso # 3082 on laptop soon.
If you should encounter issues installing please read this:
I started testing these Plasma6 x86_64 isos build id 3081 and znver1 build id 3082. One of the first things we check is that all the applications in application launcher open. I notice that a lot of them cause a freeze up of about 1 1/2 min. of items pinned to the menu panel as well as the application launcher icon.
Edit: I just checked the ROME P6 iso 3081 in VirtualBox and do not see any freeze ups there. So maybe hardware related? How?
Chromium is missing the ungoogled page in the x86_64 iso but that page was present in the
znver1 iso.
Tested in VB… it seems good. I’ll install tonight in a real hardware… see you later!
Nothing to do… grub error at start, no grub2 found. 
Thanks for reporting.
I am logged in to ROME P6 iso #3081 on my laptop. If it says grub2 not found I would first reburn the flash drive. You booted this in VBox so the .iso file has to have grub2. Plus the fact that I am booted in to that .iso indicates grub2 is present in the .iso file. Also is there a hardware issue of some kind? FWIW: I am using UEFI boot. I use EFI boot option in VBox. Obviously what is correct regarding UEFI system boot depends on users computer.
Editing first post to reflect: I have tested that these isos do boot in VirtualBox in OM Cooker or ROME host system. I have tested that these do boot on my laptop.
Edit: But we know that @stefluni has reported a boot problem on his hardware so we need to keep an eye on this and find out more details if we can.
ROME Plasma6 x86_64 #3081
Installed today on partition reserved for these purposes.
It starts normally (partition /boot/efi), even the rest seems to work.
below the hardware info:
CPU:
Info: 10-core (2-mt/8-st) model: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-1255U bits: 64
type: MST AMCP cache: L2: 6.5 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 416 min/max: 400/4700:3500 cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 600
4: 400 5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 9: 400 10: 400 11: 400 12: 400
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 [UHD Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: Bison BisonCam NB Pro driver: uvcvideo type: USB
Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.0 driver:
X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 resolution:
1: 1680x1050~60Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,swrast platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.1.0-rc4 renderer: Mesa Intel
Graphics (ADL GT2)
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.278 drivers: intel,llvmpipe surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: C-Media USB Advanced Audio Device
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB
API: ALSA v: k6.9.1-desktop-1omv2490 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.1.81 status: active (process)
A little more complete explanations …
I tried to install Openmandriva Rome plasma 6 on an Acer Aspire laptop, on which 5 rock was installed. This distribution worked well, I tried to update it to Rome Plasma6 without succeeding. The PC is formatted with GPT -based filesystem EXT4, so I have an unprocessed 500 MB partition set properly.
I downloaded the ISO of Openmandriva Plasma 6 and tested it on Virtualbox, where it started regularly and I was able to install it on the virtual disc.
At this point I burned a USB stick and tried to install on the laptop. The ISO has regularly started and I performed the installation on the partition previously occupied by oma 5 rock. The PC on restart reported the GRUB2 error, so I tried again obtaining the same one again. I downloaded the last available ISO of Rome Plasma 5, I tried to install this, with the same identical result. Finally I tried to rewrite the USB stick, but the result has not changed …
Translated with Google Translate… My english is not so good 
I solved it in a roundabout way… I installed another Linux distro (PcLinuxOs, to be precise) on the PC, in another partition. During installation the distribution generated its grub, from which I was able to access OpenMandriva, which otherwise worked perfectly. I installed Gimp and Inkscape, the programs I use most, and everything went smoothly. I’ve been using it for quite a while, haven’t had any crashes or slowdowns. I would say we are on the right track.
The only problem… the login screen does not appear centered, but as if the screen was divided into two parts (or that the image is not extended enough to cover the entire screen). Photo follows…
@bruno Thanks for reporting.
We need to dig in to this problem a bit more and see if we can resolve it.
If I am understanding correctly both the ROME P6 and Rock isos boot. Rock was previously installed and worked but now installing either ROME or Rock results in some Grub2 error?
What is the grub2 error? Could you post the actual error message?
The Calamares installer would give an error message if there were any problem installing the boot-loader. Was there any error at install?
Is this a UEFI boot system? Did you select to use “Erase disk” when installing? If so you would likely have 2 /boot/efi partitions on the computer and would need to change this in UEFI firmware/BIOS to boot OMLx.
Edited first post to include links to:
If I am understanding correctly both the ROME P6 and Rock isos boot. Rock was previously installed >and worked but now installing either ROME or Rock results in some Grub2 error?
No, I’ve installed Rome P6 and later Rome P5. The Rock previosly installed worked correctly.
What is the grub2 error? Could you post the actual error message?
Grub2 not found or something similar. After the workaround the pc start correctly.
The Calamares installer would give an error message if there were any problem installing the boot->loader. Was there any error at install?
No, the installation process ended correctly, saying that all is done
Is this a UEFI boot system? Did you select to use “Erase disk” when installing? If so you would likely have 2
/boot/efipartitions on the computer and would need to change this in UEFI firmware/BIOS to boot OMLx.
Yes, UEFI,. No, I replaced the OMA partition. In this pc I have other 4 distro . I have only one /boot/efi partition. When I’ve installed PClinuxOS all went well
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Thanks for reporting:
If you have an existing /boot/efi partition then you would need to use “Manual partitioning” and select that as /boot/efi (do not format) during installation. I do not recall that “Replace a partition” does this.
I did it. I’ve select /boot/efi partition and I’ve installed Rome P6 (and P5) on an existing partition
Something is wrong and I can not tell with the information I have. I probably can not do much with this without the exact error and probably also screen-shot of what was done on partitioning page in the installer. But I am pursuing this in part because it is an unusual problem, something we do not see often.
If Calamares install was successful with no errors then grub2 is somewhere. On UEFI boot system what grub2 looks for first is for a file in /boot/efi. If there were no errors on install that file to boot the Plasma6 system is somewhere in some /boot/efi.
Grub2 does not have anything to do with Plasma it would be the same for Plasma 5, 6, Gnome, XFCE, or LXQt. So this is very unlikely to be related to Plasma6.
right to be sure, with EFI/UEFI system: you have to choose manual partitioning
[giusto per essere certi, con sistema EFI/UEFI:
bisogna scegliere partizionamento manuale]
select the FAT32 partition
[selezionare la partizione FAT32]
and indicate /boot/efi mount point and tick the flag boot
[e indicare punto di mount /boot/efi e spuntare il flag boot]
then select the partition where you want to install the system and put/as a mount point
[poi selezioni la partizione dove vuoi installare il sistema e metti / come punto mount]
Then cross your fingers and hope…
I do multi-booting here and that is how I do it. That does not mean that @stefluni has not encountered some issue that needs to be resolved.
@bruno I dit exactly as you told…
@stefluni could you post the /var/log/calamares.log here from the Plasma6 system that you had to use the workaround to get to boot. Maybe that will tell us something or help help me to understand if I am correctly understanding the problem.
Edit: I am guilty of stupidity. This is the first thing I should have asked for…
