MX Linux live USB not booting [Solved]

[RafeeDaBoy]

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3070
Motherboard: ASRock B450 Steel Legend
I'm trying to install MX Linux 21 with KDE. When I boot into it, it says "udev done" then shows the mouse cursor for a second and a blinking text input as you'd see in a terminal.Pressing Alt+F1 shows the optiion to login to CLI installer. Does this iso not have a GUI installer?
The iso says that it has ahs repos enabled, but does it not have basic drivers that supports Nvidia GPUs as the ahs xfce iso worked for me.

Update: Installed the nivdia drivers through the cli-installer with boot persistence enabled. It works now

[Huckleberry Finn]

How did you write the iso?
And checked the sum (sha256 etc) after downloading?
And disabled "secure boot" in Bios ?

[dolphin_oracle]

if the AHS Xfce iso worked ok, it may just be the difference in kernels. the Official KDE stills ships with the 5.10 kernel, but the ahs Xfce has the 5.16.

you can try this respin I made with the 5.16 kernel. Its not official technically but the only difference from the official to this one is the 5.16 kernel.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/do-tes ... o/download

[RafeeDaBoy]

How did you write the iso?
And checked the sum (sha256 etc) after downloading?
And disabled "secure boot" in Bios ?

Yes, I did. I basically did all the same thing I did to make the bootable USB for the XFCE version using Rufus. I managed to solve the issue by installing the nvidia-drivers using the cli-installer with boot persistence enabled.

[Huckleberry Finn]

So, you can (and please) mark the thread with 1 click, this way:

[RafeeDaBoy]

if the AHS Xfce iso worked ok, it may just be the difference in kernels. the Official KDE stills ships with the 5.10 kernel, but the ahs Xfce has the 5.16.

you can try this respin I made with the 5.16 kernel. Its not official technically but the only difference from the official to this one is the 5.16 kernel.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/do-tes ... o/download

Re-opening this as I noticed some bugs.

1. When using the offical MX Linux 21 KDE iso and installing the Nvidia drivers via the cli live environment, the newly installed MX Linux on the SSD runs at only at 93Hz with noticeable screent tearing (display native refresh rate is 165Hz and the Xfce ahs version uses the correct refresh rate).
2. The respin iso with 5.16 kernel goes through the same issues with the official KDE iso where it doesn't boot into the gui live environment.

[Huckleberry Finn]

On KDE (even on Xfce, too):

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sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Reboot

(It may say "no such file or directory" , no harm, nothing to lose to try)

[RafeeDaBoy]

On KDE (even on Xfce, too):

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sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Reboot

(It may say "no such file or directory" , no harm, nothing to lose to try)

It didn't work and yes, there wasn't any files called xorg.conf

I did fiddle around and manage to fix it. It was a simple, but very long process:
1. Install the Nvidia drivers in the cli installer using the Nvidia Driver Installer tool with

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 sudo su-to-root /usr/bin/ddm-mx -i nvidia

2. After the installation is done, reboot and wait (takes ~10 minutes to show the GUI)
3. Go through the installation normally and boot into your OS
4. Purge Nvidia drivers with

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sudo ddm-mx -p nvidia

and reboot
5. You'll boot into the terminal GUI and repeat step 1
6. Reboot after the installation and now the correct refresh rate should show up and screen tearing will be gone