fastboot was not enabled.
I’m not comfortable using the “auto install” as it has not worked one single time so far.
I came across this post however
It’s pretty much exactly what I was searching for, as it deals with hybrid graphics setups.
I was able to install nvidia drivers with
sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms nvidia-lts nvidia-prime nvidia-utils
and lsmod | grep nvidia now shows
nvidia_modeset 1200128 32 nvidia_drm
nvidia 35328000 1947 nvidia_modeset
i2c_nvidia_gpu 16384 0
drm_kms_helper 319488 2 nvidia_drm,i915
drm 630784 17 drm_kms_helper,nvidia,nvidia_drm,i915
I had to add “nvidia” to MODULES in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf before it would boot successfully though.
So this looks good so far yes?
Until I try installing optimus-manager, I reboot and it fails again at Loading initial ramdisk
Getting somewhere but really starting to give up on arch based setup.
I’m mean this PC is new this year, I’m kinda shocked that it is SO difficult just to get graphics sorted.
Hardware config still looks like this.
