Im trying to get into using linux so that I can leave windows bloated mess but ive tried flashing nobara 37 & 38 to a usb, only reaches the grub screen and then gets stuck on a black screen. ive tried with the fedora workstation distro and it does the same. Then I tried popos and it runs perfectly fine? so im not sure what the issue is. id rather have nobara since its easier OOB to run games
Had the same problem after upgrading from 37 to 38. Its an nvidia problem
1 - Boot an older kernel OR
Drop to a TTY (Ctrl + Alt + F3) OR
Boot into runlevel 3 (on grub, press 'e' when the list of kernels show, look for the line with quite splash nvidia-drm.modeset=1 and add the number 3 there, then Ctrl + X to boot)
2 - Login on your terminal and dkms status. If you see something like /var/dkms/nvidia/525.116.03/source/dkms.conf does not exist, remove the entire directory of the failed version rm -rf /var/dkms/nvidia/525.116.03
3 - sudo dkms autoinstall
4 - reboot if no errors and profit, otherwise rinse and repeat step 2-3
PS: If dkms tells you nothing at all (after the upgrade):
remove the drivers
/etc/nobara/scripts/cosmo-nvidia-wizard/remove.sh
reinstall them
/etc/nobara/scripts/cosmo-nvidia-wizard/install.sh
If your dkms status is ok, you probably have a mismatch in your initramfs and root. just sudo dracut -f --regenerate-all and reboot
it was an nvidia driver problem, i have resolved the issue by editing the boot in grub by pressing e and setting ‘nomodeset quiet’ and reinstalling the propriety drivers upon boot
it was actually the nvidia drivers that was in the install, had to modify the boot so i can download and install the proprietary drivers. everything is running perfectly smooth now :) i was using a 16gb USB
Good to know you solved your issue. I remember in Nobara 36 I flashed it onto a 4gb stick and it was pretty full. Wasn't sure if the subsequent releases increased in size or not. :p