Installer gets stuck at Plymouth Boot Screen

After many hours of research and testing I could only boot into the installer using "nomodeset". This caused my AMD driver to not be able to load and thus I was unable to ever reach the desktop environment on the live usb to install Garuda.

My fix for this was using an HDMI cable. I had read on an Arch forum a user was having the same issue I was with a blank screen on installation boot with a Vega graphics card. Turns out using the DisplayPort causes some problems here, where when switching to an HDMI cable allows for the display to work as intended.

I am not sure why that is or what causes that issue in the first place. I do now have Garuda installed and I am able to use the DisplayPort cable only after I am logged into my user on Garuda. Otherwise I can only get passed the boot menu using the HDMI connection. Again I do not know why this is but that is my solution. Any insight into this would be appreciated. If I have to start a new thread for it let me know.

Thank you all who replied to help.

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