So I’m trying to install garuda hyprland edition alongside my Windows 11 install, but when I boot to the USB (which I prepared using Ventoy as shown in the video at Garuda Linux) I get the menu where I can set my timezone, keyboard layout and language and select whether to boot with proprietary drivers or open-source drivers.
I’ve tried both options, neither makes any difference to my problem
After I Boot with either, I wait a bit and then come to the login screen, but after inputting the password and hitting enter, it just forever gets stuck in a black screen with the caret in the top left of the screen (which means it’s probably a console but there’s no output and it doesn’t accept input either).
I’ve waited for 40 minutes to see if anything happens, but it doesn’t. Pressing CTRL+ALT+F2 makes it be just a black screen with my cursor being an X, CTRL+ALT+F3 gets me to a terminal where I can log in and then run commands, though I do not know if I could run a command there to get me to the live OS so I can install garuda hyprland, and if there is one, I don’t know what it is.
Going back to CTRL+ALT+F1 just brings me back to the empty console with the blinking caret. The only thing that really seems to work here is the power off, when I hit my power button all the unmounting and stuff happens before it shuts down.
Here’s my output for garuda-inxi, as a link to termbin since I can’t really copy anything.
Edit by @nepti:
System:
Kernel: 6.16.8-zen3-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1 clocksource: tsc
avail: hpet,acpi_pm parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=de
tz=Europe/Berlin misobasedir=garuda root=miso:LABEL=GARUDA_HYPRLAND_BROADWING quiet
systemd.show_status=1 checksum=y driver=nonfree nouveau.modeset=0 i915.modeset=1
radeon.modeset=1
Console: tty 3 DM: SDDM Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: B450M DS3H v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: B450M DS3H-CF v: x.x serial: <superuser required>
uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: F60e date: 12/09/2020
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ gen: 1+ level: v3 note: check
built: 2018-21 process: GF 12nm family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 8 stepping: 2 microcode: 0x800820D
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 6 threads: 12 tpc: 2 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 576 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x64 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB L3: 16 MiB desc: 2x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1550 min/max: 1550/3400 boost: enabled scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq
governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1550 2: 1550 3: 1550 4: 1550 5: 1550 6: 1550 7: 1550 8: 1550
9: 1550 10: 1550 11: 1550 12: 1550 bogomips: 81437
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Lite Hash Rate] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia
v: 580.82.09 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550-580.xx+ status: current (as of
2025-08; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-2023
pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s ports:
active: HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 empty: DP-1,DP-2 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2489 class-ID: 0300
Display: unspecified server: X.org v: 1.21.1.18 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8 driver: X:
loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa
gpu: nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch tty: 240x67
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 model: Acer EK251Q E serial: <filter> built: 2024 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 90
gamma: 1.2 size: 543x302mm (21.38x11.89") diag: 621mm (24.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080
min: 640x480
Monitor-2: HDMI-A-2 model: HP 32f serial: <filter> built: 2021 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 70
gamma: 1.2 size: 699x393mm (27.52x15.47") diag: 806mm (31.7") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080
min: 640x480
API: OpenGL Message: GL data unavailable in console, glxinfo missing.
Info: Tools: gpu: nvidia-smi wl: kanshi, wdisplays, wlr-randr x11: xprop
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 07:00.1
chip-ID: 10de:228b class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 09:00.3
chip-ID: 1022:1457 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Jieli USB-Sounbar-V18 driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-3:4 chip-ID: 5943:3130 class-ID: 0300
API: ALSA v: k6.16.8-zen3-1-zen status: kernel-api tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.9 status: off with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: off 2: wireplumber
status: off 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: Gigabyte
driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 05:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 5 Wireless-AC 9x6x [Thunder Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 2
speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2526 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp6s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-4:2 chip-ID: 2550:8761 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.1 lmp-v: 10 status:
discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.46 TiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT2000P310SSD8 size: 1.82 TiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: V8CR000 temp: 37.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT240BX500SSD1 size: 223.57 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 052
scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST3500418AS size: 465.76 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> fw-rev: AP73
scheme: GPT
ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1ER162 size: 931.51 GiB
block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
fw-rev: CC45 scheme: GPT
ID-5: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 vendor: SanDisk model: Ultra Luxe size: 57.3 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB rev: 2.1 spd: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 tech: N/A
serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
Message: No partition data found.
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 31.28 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100 comp: zstd
avail: lzo-rle,lzo,lz4,lz4hc,deflate,842 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: 36.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.28 GiB used: 8.28 GiB (26.5%)
Processes: 239 Power: uptime: 33m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep avail: s2idle
wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume image: 12.47 GiB
Init: systemd v: 258 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1228 libs: 323 tools: pacseek,paru Compilers: gcc: 15.2.1
Shell: Bash v: 5.3.3 default: fish v: 4.1.2 running-in: tty 3 inxi: 3.3.39
Garuda (2.11.1-1):
System install date: 2025-10-16
Garuda release: 251002
Last full system update: 2025-10-16 ↻
Is partially upgraded: No
Relevant software: snapper NetworkManager dracut nvidia-utils nvidia-open-dkms garuda-hardware-profile-nvidia garuda-hardware-profile-standard
Windows dual boot: <superuser required>
Failed units: snapper-cleanup.service
--- System Health Check Report ---
21/24 checks run in 1.13 seconds ⌛
Powered by garuda-health 🦅
--- HIGH ---
- Snapper snapshots directory is missing (fix available)
--- LOW ---
- Failed systemd services found: snapper-cleanup.service
--- INFO ---
- A reboot is pending (update applied since last reboot)
Run garuda-health --fix to apply fixes.
Like I said, using CTRL+ALT+F3 I get to a console, so if you need me to run any commands there, just tell me!
Update:
I have run garuda-update in the CTRL+ALT+F3 console and also tried starting hyprland with the command ‘hyprland’, but when I do, it crashes. Here’s the crash report if it helps, once again with a termbin link.
