• rufus
    2·
    10 months ago

    I don’t know what gets written to disk on which distro and which logs are just kept in memory. dmesg alone just shows the current boot. I think if you’re doing it that way journalctl --dmesg --boot=-1 would be the correct command. That should do it.

      • rufus
        2·
        10 months ago

        Good luck! 😀

        (FYI: You can skip mentioning names that way, a direct reply will show up on Lemmy. And if you want to mention someone, you’d need to add the instance name for it to have an effect. i.e. @rufus@discuss.tchncs.de )

        • Varen@kbin.socialOP
          2·
          10 months ago

          Yeah thank you, I really hope we‘ll get some progress.

          (Not doing it on purpose, it‘s just how kbin behaves 😅 really thinking about dropping it and give lemmy a try. Originally decided for kbin because I wanted both worlds but since the behaviour is so strange …yeah 😉)

        • Varen@kbin.socialOP
          2·
          10 months ago

          Unfortunately nothing. Did install - reboot with acpi=off, reboot with no acpi parameter, reboot with acpi=off

          Dmesg shows for the boot=-1 the first boot after install with acpi=off

          No log for the try without acpi parameter 😢😢

          Booting with acpi=off shows many logs with „IRQ not found for nvidia …“ (in the meaning, not wordly).

          Edit: can‘t find an irq for your nvidia card

          Edit 2: found a boot.log file. When trying to boot without acpi=off then no log is written, the bootprocess doesn‘t even start. From this point of view I‘d guess a Problem with UEFI. Still no idea what and where, but it‘s not graphics related if the bootprocess doesn‘t start at all… what d‘you think?

          • rufus
            2·
            10 months ago

            I think you can safely ignore all the errors that happen while acpi=off. That will switch all kinds of things around and the operating system can’t set up the hardware properly without it, so it is to be expected that half the things crap out and throw error messages. Could be a red herring anyways.

            Are you sure Secure Boot is switched to “Other OS”? (see https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1049829/ ) You could verify that with the ‘msinfo32’ in the guide.

            And I’m really not sure if it’s the UEFI. From your description it seems you’re getting to the boot loader and something happens after… Maybe try not messing with the acpi, but removing the “quiet” and “splash” if they’re there and adding “nomodeset” instead. After you hit Enter (or Ctrl-X with Grub) the early kernel messages should pop up. Something with loading and initrd or like that. What happens then? Does it load the kernel? Do additional log messages with a boot process appear? (If it’s too fast, you can try a video recording of your screen with your phone.)

              • rufus
                2·
                10 months ago

                I have another kernel option for you to try: “earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by default because it has some cosmetic problems.”

                • earlyprintk=vga,keep debug
                • earlyprintk=efi,keep or earlyprintk=bios,keep

                I’m not sure if it gets you anywhere, but it could make the fist kernel messages show up.

                And you could try replacing the acpi=off with acpi=noirq. If it’s something with the interrputs, there are extra options like apic=irqfixup or nolapic (mind the difference apic <-> acpi). (Taken from this document)

                I had the time to google a bit and I was right, I am about to run out of ideas. There is a good general guide in the arch wiki on how to approach issues:

                https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/General_troubleshooting#Boot_problems

                Maybe also read that, but that’s pretty much it.

                • Varen@kbin.socialOP
                  2·
                  10 months ago

                  Wow thank you so much for keeping up on it!

                  I tried the earlyprintk options, but unfortunately none of them did work. Neither did the orher acpi options show up something, I do still have the exact same behaviour :(

                  I will work through the troubleshoot link you pasted, thank you as well for that.

                  Appreciate your help, I guess I‘ll start thinking about replacing the mobo

                  • rufus
                    1·
                    10 months ago

                    I guess I‘ll start thinking about replacing the mobo

                    Yeah, I’m slowly getting to the same conclusion. You could try and rip out all other non-essential components to rule them out. If there are any. And go through the BIOS options once more, switch everything to “Other OS” and try the “legacy” modes for ACPI, boot etc. But at this point I somehow doubt any of this will make any difference. Just make sure the next mobo is alright 😆

              • rufus
                2·
                10 months ago

                Really weird. Honesty, I currently have no idea how to proceed. Maybe I can google a bit later/tomorrow. But it’s not looking good. There doesn’t seem to be any good information out there concerning that mainboard an Linux. And since we don’t get an error message there isn’t a clear thing to begin with.

                I would have expected at least something happening on the video. Maybe a few lines of text and then the screen flickering and going to black… But nothing?

                • Varen@kbin.socialOP
                  2·
                  10 months ago

                  yeah, that’s the reason I am so desperate … I understand, so maybe about time to look around for a new mobo?
                  anyways, I wanted to thank you very much for your time and effort in figuring out and trying to help me, I really do appreciate it very much!

                  • rufus
                    1·
                    10 months ago

                    No problem. I wish I could have provided you with a solution. If you have something like a 14 days free return policy, I’d consider returning it. Otherwise, wait a few days before you start thinking about a new motherboard. Maybe someone with a better idea still replies to you.

                    But I can empathize with your situation. I also used to have hardware that was a mess or didn’t work at all. It’s just annoying.

            • Varen@kbin.socialOP
              2·
              10 months ago

              Yes, secure boot is set to Other OS - if set otherwise there’s a message after grub that secure boot is active, so pretty sure about that.

              Unfortunately it doesn‘t show anything, even with no parameters at all. The only thing that shows up when changing the grub parameters is the „booting a command line“ message which stays there forever, nothing happens.
              I‘ll record it with my phone when I get home later on today with the nomodeset parameter.