Clean install of Garuda Linux breaks

Issues & Assistance
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My terminal is not responding!

So I did a clean install (replacing Ubuntu).
I set 512 mb for /boot (fat32), 20gb for / (BTRFS), and about 90gb for /home (BTRFS).
After installing the initial updates and rebooting, I only see the wallpaper (no dock or top bar) for about 5 minutes.

Also, when I open up the terminal(Konsole) it won’t allow me to enter any commands. It just flashes _.

Everything else just seems to run incredibly slow.

I had Garuda installed prior to Ubuntu, and everything ran fine.

I am running it on a Lenovo legion 5
Cpu: AMD ryzen 7 5800H
Gpu: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 TI
Ram: 16gb

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

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https://wiki.garudalinux.org/en/dr460nized-migration

Upon confirming the migration, previous configuration files are renamed to *.bak, in case you want to revert the changes. Otherwise, the migration can be started by accessing the tray menu of garuda-system-maintenance.

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Forgive me if I’m just blind, but I’m not seeing the option to migrate anywhere when I right click.

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Which DE? Post full ISO name

Seems KDE, which one?

I am not the KDE maintainer, which right click?

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Garuda dragonized is what I installed. Not the gaming edition.

My DE is KDE Plasma 5.27.1

I right clicked everything. Lol. The icon on the dock, the title bar, and the system tray.

And I’m just now realizing my network connection has broken also.

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Please reboot your device, then when it comes back up paste the output of the garuda-inxi command into the thread.

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How would I get the output without a terminal? Garuda assistant also isn’t displaying anything.

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Did you reboot, and you still can't get a terminal?

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Yes. It just blinks. Could I get the output through grub?

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Switch to a TTY with Ctrl+Alt+F2 and save it to a text file on your desktop.

garuda-inxi > ~/Desktop/garuda-inxi.txt

Then switch back to the desktop session and open the text file.

OR

Send to termbin with

garuda-inxi | tb

and put the URL into the thread

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Odd. The terminal just freezes and nothing is outputted and no file on the desktop on reboot

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Hmm, I hate to say so but it sounds like something went badly with your installation.

Let’s back up for a second:

Do you mean 512 MB for /boot/efi? /boot should not be on FAT32, it should be on the root partition. Did you use the manual partitioning option for installation?

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Yes, boot/efi is what I set it to manually. So I should set it to BTRFS instead?

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The mountpoint at /boot/efi should be FAT32. /boot should be Btrfs, but it shouldn't be added as a mountpoint on the installer--it gets created automatically as a subdirectory of /.

It might be worth re-installing because for your system to be so broken right off of a fresh install, it seems like something went wrong.

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Ok, so I should only allocate 512 for boot/efi, and the rest for root?

And I should flag as boot and root, respectively?

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Are you dual-booting? 512 MB is way more than your Garuda install needs, that’s why I ask. Just one Garuda install uses like 1 MB on EFI, no joke. You can make the EFI partition much smaller. 300 MB is the default.

You don’t need to worry about the flags, when you choose /boot/efi as the mountpoint the installer will add the flag automatically. Other flags are not needed.

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Wow. That’s not a lot at all. Lol

I am dual booting unfortunately. Some programs I need for work are windows only.

Thank you so much. I will try again and see how it goes.

:grin:

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Ok, so I haven't restarted it yet, so it is working properly at the moment. However, I am still not seeing the option to migrate. Could I just uninstall latte-dock and manually install everything?

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Yes, just follow the wiki starting from the Doing it manually section.

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