I recently installed Garuda and after finishing things when I turned my laptop off . I get black screen and can’t do anything when I try to start again. I get black screen after the selection (I selected Garuda Linux). I am totally new to Linux and this is my first time.
Hi there, welcome to the forum.
As a first troubleshooting step, try booting and then restoring the latest working snapshot.
After restoring and rebooting, if it works, enter in a terminal:
garuda-update
complete the update and reboot.
In case of further troubles, please provide here the output of your specs with:
garuda-inxi
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I don’t have Any snapshots I just installed it and rebooted and I am still stuck in the black screen. I can only access a prompt saying “grub”
My device - HP ProBook 445 G7
Ram - 16GB
Storage - 500GB SSD
Gfx - amd Radeon built in graphics
Try booting from your live ISO USB.
Open RANI there and find a button to chroot into your system.
It should open a terminal with root privileges. Then try:
garuda-update
It will show a few errors and warnings for sure, but if the process completes succesfully try rebooting into your system (removing the USB).
If it still doesn’t work, you could also try reinstalling the GRUB (again from the live USB with RANI).
In case of further failure, retrieve your system specs from the live USB (either with RANI) or from terminal with:
garuda-inxi
and post the output here.
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Can you provide a video/link or something I’m totally new here. I can’t upload images to show my problem because of new account
okay my friend seeing you are new you best redo your installation, that sure be easiest. That is if you have a nvidia graphic card. Then install Garuda choosing the nvidia option. After installation run the update, however watch the process and see if the nvidia dkms modules throw up an error. If so after the update open a terminal ( Press Ctrl-t) and enter the code below, this will install the open source dkms driver and modules and could well fix your issues. (When you run the code below it may tell you there are dependency issues. simply uninstall the conflicting files and re run the code.
sudo pacman -Sy nvidia-open-dkms egl-wayland lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia nvidia-settings opencl-nvidia nvidia-utils
Hope this helps.
to uninstall a file
sudo pacman -R ‘conflicting file name’
after the code has successfully finished reinstall the conflicting files if possible, otherwise simply leave them, for then you have the latest driver already.
to reinstall
sudo pacman -Sy ‘packet name you unistalled before’
if the above does not work try this instead
Please don’t get me wrong, but in what way should a picture of your black screen help us?
We can do more with your computer data from gruda-inxi.
We don’t even know which DE you want to install.
There are no videos, but there are texts.
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I wasn’t talking about giving the picture of the black screen i was going to give the picture of the interface before i got the black screen. I reinstalled garuda and used garuda-update and here is the output of garuda-inxi
System:
Kernel: 6.13.5-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=82511f16-8059-40f5-91db-d8fa98e71dfe rw rootflags=subvol=@
vt.default_red=30,243,166,249,137,245,148,186,88,243,166,249,137,245,148,166
vt.default_grn=30,139,227,226,180,194,226,194,91,139,227,226,180,194,226,173
vt.default_blu=46,168,161,175,250,231,213,222,112,168,161,175,250,231,213,200
quiet loglevel=3 ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.4 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.13.0
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP ProBook 445 G7 v: SBKPF
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 8730 v: KBC Version 13.2B.00 serial: <superuser required>
part-nu: 276C1UC#ABA uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: HP
v: S79 Ver. 01.17.01 date: 06/07/2024
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 34.9 Wh (99.4%) condition: 35.1/45.2 Wh (77.5%)
volts: 12.3 min: 11.6 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: not charging cycles: 70
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 4500U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Zen 2 gen: 2 level: v3 note: check built: 2020-22
process: TSMC n7 (7nm) family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x60 (96) stepping: 1
microcode: 0x860010D
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 6 smt: <unsupported> cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB L3: 8 MiB
desc: 2x4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1397 min/max: 1400/2375 boost: enabled scaling:
driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1397 2: 1397 3: 1397
4: 1397 5: 1397 6: 1397 bogomips: 28446
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir [Radeon Vega Series /
Radeon Mobile Series] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel
arch: GCN-5 code: Vega process: GF 14nm built: 2017-20 pcie: gen: 3
speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1
bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1636 class-ID: 0300 temp: 58.0 C
Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP Wide Vision HD
Integrated Webcam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-4:3 chip-ID: 05c8:03cb class-ID: 0e02
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: LG Display 0x060f built: 2018 res: mode: 1920x1080
hz: 60 scale: 125% (1.25) to: 1536x864 dpi: 158 gamma: 1.2
size: 309x174mm (12.17x6.85") diag: 355mm (14") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi
wayland: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.0.5-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi
renoir ACO DRM 3.61 6.13.5-zen1-1-zen) device-ID: 1002:1636
memory: 500 MiB unified: no display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 layers: 5 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: AMD
Radeon Graphics (RADV RENOIR) driver: mesa radv v: 25.0.5-arch1.1
device-ID: 1002:1636 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 1 type: cpu
name: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe
v: 25.0.5-arch1.1 (LLVM 19.1.7) device-ID: 10005:0000
surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition
Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 05:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: N/A alternate: snd_pci_acp3x,
snd_rn_pci_acp3x, snd_pci_acp5x, snd_pci_acp6x, snd_acp_pci,
snd_rpl_pci_acp6x, snd_pci_ps, snd_sof_amd_renoir, snd_sof_amd_rembrandt,
snd_sof_amd_vangogh, snd_sof_amd_acp63, snd_sof_amd_acp70 pcie: gen: 3
speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 05:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3
speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 05:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.13.5-zen1-1-zen status: kernel-api tools: N/A
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp1s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 2
speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-3:3 chip-ID: 8087:0029
class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2
lmp-v: 11 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 6c010c
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 35.07 GiB (7.4%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN730
SDBPNTY-512G-1006 size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: HPS2 temp: 48.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 100 GiB size: 100 GiB (100.00%) used: 11.09 GiB (11.1%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%)
used: 44.1 MiB (45.9%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 100 GiB size: 100 GiB (100.00%)
used: 11.09 GiB (11.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 100 GiB size: 100 GiB (100.00%)
used: 11.09 GiB (11.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 100 GiB size: 100 GiB (100.00%)
used: 11.09 GiB (11.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.02 GiB used: 123.8 MiB (0.8%)
priority: 100 comp: zstd avail: lzo-rle,lzo,lz4,lz4hc,deflate,842
max-streams: 6 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 76.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 56.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 15.02 GiB used: 6.9 GiB (45.9%)
Processes: 348 Power: uptime: 1h 19m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 6 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1241 libs: 359 tools: octopi,paru Compilers:
gcc: 15.1.1 Shell: garuda-inxi default: fish v: 4.0.2 running-in: konsole
inxi: 3.3.38
Garuda (2.7.2-1):
System install date: 2025-05-06
Last full system update: 2025-05-06 ↻
Is partially upgraded: No
Relevant software: snapper NetworkManager dracut
Windows dual boot: Probably (Run as root to verify)
Failed units:
It is not helpful to edit the garuda-inxi posted by the live environment and thus change it to a garuda-inxi of an installation. If such basic things change, then it makes sense to post a new one.
To prevent spam and other nonsense, new members are not allowed to post pics. But you can use an external pic-hoster and share the link here.
Obviously you have windows dualboot, is Secure Boot and Fastboot disabled in the BIOS? If not, then disable it, Garuda Linux does not officially support Secure Boot.
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I would also be sure that the ISO you downloaded was not corrupted.
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