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Dear #NixOS bubble. I finally want to give it a try in my main machine after playing around in a VM. Put it on my #Ventoy USB drive and booted it.
But after selecting NixOS in Ventoy and selecting the default value in the NixOS bootloader I either get
- a black screen
- some startup messages followed by a black screen or a single underscore on a black screen
Any idea how to debug?
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@moanos had kind of similar issues on my GDP Pocket2. In the end I booted another distros liveIso and installed nix from the tar ball (see the install script: https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.24.4/install) and then followed the manual install steps https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-installation-manual. Prepare the partitons manually mount them in /mnt, place your config in /mnt/etc/nixos, nixos-run install,chroot,nixos-rebuild...
Ideas to debug, if you have a serial console edit the grub entry and add 'console=ttyS0,115200' to see logs.
@moanos Ventoy is known to break the installation! 😱
@moanos a shot in the dark: have you tried booting with the "nomodeset" cmdline option?