Comment on Help a 7-y.o. Kid Get His First Linux Gaming PC

user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Maybe a stupid idea, but try manually selecting the SSD in boot menu. I don’t trust UEFI/BIOS to do what it’s supposed to after finding out that HP UEFI simply wipes all boot entries after booting an external drive.

I tried switching to the Nvidia drivers but all I got was a black screen.

That does sound familiar from when I used GeForce 8600M GT laptop. Nouveau mostly worked, but the official NVidia driver did this. What worked was switching to an old kernel, Linux 5.4 on that thing. But I don’t like this “solution”.

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