Black Screen Issue on Boot | 250308 broadwing | rufus | etcher | no boot

Hello! I am new to Garuda Linux and experiencing a black screen issue when trying to boot from a live USB to install it. I was initially trying for the Dragonized edition.

Hardware Information:

  1. Motherboard Model: 8C3F
  2. CPU: Intel Core i5-12th Gen-12450H, 2000 Mhz, 8 Cores, 12 Logical Processors
  3. GPU: NVIDIA RTX 2050
  4. RAM: 16GB
  5. Storage: Trying to install to an NVMe SSD
  6. BIOS Version: AMI F.18

I also tried for several other editions like the GNOME, XFCE, Dragonized Gaming. After selecting the USB drive(UEFI option) in the BIOS boot menu, I get a persistent black screen with increasing fan speed, and the Garuda boot menu (with options like “Boot Garuda”) never appears. I also tried booting directly from bootx64.efi via the “Boot From EFI File” option in my UEFI, but this also resulted in a black screen.

I used Rufus and BalenaEtcher to create the bootable USB drives. For Rufus, the Partition scheme was always defaulted to MBR for Garuda and was greyed out, i.e., it was unchangeable.

I also tried for Ubuntu. This time I was able to change the Partition scheme from MBR to GPT in the Rufus application. This time I was able to successfully boot into the live environment of Ubuntu from a USB drive created with Rufus (using GPT partition scheme).

I have disabled Secured Boot in my BIOS/UEFI. But I could not find a specific “Fast Boot” or “Quick Boot” option in my BIOS settings to disable.

I ask for any suggestions, known issues with my hardware, specific BIOS settings to check, or kernel parameters that might help you boot Garuda.

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Use ventoy, boot with grub2

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