Good news! I got fedora silverblue to install, tho not bazzite directly, and rebased to bazzite and it seems to be working. Figured what’s the worst that could happen if I tried, you know?

Anyway thanks for all the help!

I don’t have another flash drive big enough for this, no. The other one I have is 8gb and the utility says it requires 10, but I have been using the back ports. I’ll try again with one of the bottom ones and a bazzite install since I would need to remake the fedora one anyway. I had tried that previously but before having a workable display.

And hey, this kinda stuff happens whenever I try to do something a bit new. I refer to myself as the walking incarnation of Murphy’s law. I’m used to it 😊 it sucks for sure but I’m used to it lol (and I do tend to learn quite a bit in the process so not a total loss)

Ok, so update from yesterday; I had to stop.

Anyway the new bazzite stuff didn’t work. Fedora live test environment sort of worked but it failed at 4.8%, which is identical to another issue I saw saying it has to do with windows and if you make it on Linux it should work.

Also to answer those other questions at the bottom - voltage and temp readings are normal, psu was a replacement for one that burned out and is 700w so it should be more than enough. The parts should all be compatible, pcpartpicker said they are, but no, I don’t know that they are for sure. Still, my old Ubuntu install loads just fine, tho with some minor errors. Wouldn’t that mean everything does work?

Ah, actually no this is an error I came across before, and the help article said using dd mode on Rufus or the etcher program should fix it, so I’m going to try that again with etcher, and see if it does. Like I said getting a screen saying kernel panic is big progress! It beats the lingering black screen (probably from it actually working but not displaying, like you said)

I don’t have another actual monitor that doesn’t only take VGA. I have been using TVs in place of monitors for a very long time because I mostly use my computer for media-related activities (hosting and maintaining Plex and watching that locally) so I don’t need much.

But like I said the tv I pilfered from my kitchen at least displayed why I had the black screen so I’m making progress and I hope I can move it seamlessly when I have everything :)

I never really considered I was using too good of a display device… that was never mentioned as a possible cause in any of the articles I found, they were mostly other hardware related problems, like dual monitors or something.

Also I bought the motherboard, cpu, and ram (also a new cooling system, bc my liquid cool was very old and idk if it still works) all together based on pc part picker and advice I got in another post on the rimworld comm, so it should all be compatible, tho the gpu is iffy. Nvidia is always iffy.

So I did the ctrl-alt-fkeys and none of them did anything. I’m re-doing a live image now because the one I tried gave me a kernel panic (which is progress) with the only “monitor” or anything else that wasn’t 4k or vga-only that I could find.

It’s still a tv and hdmi, but a much smaller 720p, and that got me something to work with anyway.

I’ll keep you posted. Thanks for the help thus far :)

I can’t do anything when the screen goes black. Or at least I don’t know how to pull anything up. It’s basically just stuck and I have to reboot. I have tried pulling up the terminal before installing but I have no clue what to do with it. It’s just a blank terminal. On that note though I haven’t seen any errors other than when booting into the years-old Ubuntu install.

Only one monitor, as I said, so shouldn’t be the problem. When I try to access through the GPU, it says there’s no output. Also when I fully removed the GPU, leaving only the integrated graphics, same problem. I did try your suggestion, but it did nothing.

I don’t know how to drop the resolution on my monitor because it’s a tv, and I can’t access anything related to these things other than via bios. If you have suggestions to do that I’m totally here for them! However I did try using the low graphics mode to install which I assume would bypass this, and that also didn’t work. Same black screen, as I mentioned.

I don’t know what fallback gui means in this context; there’s nothing to access. It’s just a list? The actual gui interface for bazzite never loads, just the bios screen, or the old ass Ubuntu install, or a black screen when I try to do anything with my live media.

Already updated the bios, as I mentioned. No change.

And as for the fedora live image, I can try making one but I don’t have faith in myself to do anything with it if it works, which I don’t honestly think it will. That’s the only thing I’ve come across that I haven’t tried at all because like I said I don’t have confidence in myself to rebase. I guess for ruling stuff out that’s fine, though… but if that also doesn’t work, then what?

Awesome, I’m gunna try this for sure, because doing anything on my Linux machines is… a whole big thing… Thanks for sharing this!