Won't complete boot - mageia 8

[mwpotter]

After installing mageia 8 on a HP Omen 45L model GT22-0016a the boot menu appears correctly but when I try to boot Mageia the boot does not complete the display seems to be looping?
The processor is an i7 12700K with 32GB memory, a 1 TB SSD, RTX3070Ti (8 GB)
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[morgano]

In boot menu select maintenance mode, log in as root.

Did you download updates during install?
If not, issue
urpmi --auto-up

If you have not configured repositories yet, you first have to:
urpmi.addmedia --distrib URI-to-your-mirror(details i have forgot)

After updating, issue reboot

If still no go, you could try another graphics driver:
In maintenance mode, launch drakx11.
In driver choices list at bottom under xorg, try first nouveau, and if that does not work either, try modesetting.
Could also try again with ncidia-current, which I think is the suggested choice, selecting to use proprietary driver.


If you like testing and contributing, Mageia 9 is coming to good shape.
You may want to join QA group and ISO testers, to download and try out a prerelease beta 2 Live ISO to see if it works, and if not your feedback is valuable for fixing
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/QA_Team
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/QA_ISO_testers

I and a few other are already running Mageia 9 for production.

[mwpotter]

Will tyr once the computer is back from maintanance.

[sturmvogel]

Your computer specs are to new for the two years old Mageia 8. Your up to date system, especially the RTX 3070 Ti requires at least Nvidia driver series 515. Unfortunately there is only driver series 470 available in the main repos.

In the backport repo the newer driver series 515 is available, but there is a nasty bug which still isn't fixed, that also installs other packages from backports (even if you don't want it). If you are adventurous Morgano may lead you further with backports topic if you want...

And the nouveau driver is a no go if you have a Gen 12 CPU and a gaming card where you spend some money on....you don't want low performance then.... Thats why i switched to a better supported rolling release distro after i bought a high end machine...

[morgano]

Well then. For Mageia 8 I would suggest enabling backport and install both kernel and nvidia-current from there.
The updater bug sturmvogel mention is https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29830
I guess you are not using old software that need old stuff anyway, but if you get newer stuff than you want from backport, the repo can be disabled and packages downgraded.

Personally I would fresh install Mageia 9 to get more months until next Mageia upgrade.
Cauldron is relatively stable now until Mageia 9 is released, as it is being finished to become Mageia 9 - but in general see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Cauldron

[mwpotter]

Thanks Guys,
Will Try Mageia 9 and see how it goes.

Cheers.
Martin.