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Did some partition work and these are my partitions deleting bodhi.
Debating whether to change around stuff or not before installing sabayon on unallocated space.
Booting is still an issue for me at the moment.
Secure boot is still not enabled and I loaded safe mode.
Safe mode gives me a black screen with a cursor instead of black screen with blinking line.
Little better, but unfortunately stuck
Did some partition work and these are my partitions deleting bodhi.
Debating whether to change around stuff or not before installing sabayon on unallocated space.
Booting is still an issue for me at the moment.
Secure boot is still not enabled and I loaded safe mode.
Safe mode gives me a black screen with a cursor instead of black screen with blinking line.
Little better, but unfortunately stuck
Secure boot (in the BIOS) needs to be "disabled" in order to install Linux.
Also in the BIOS set your machine to boot to the usb if that's how you are trying to install Sabayon.
Make usb the first choice in the boot menu.
Some Linux systems will boot with Secure Boot enabled. To find out if Sabayon is one of these, best go to their site.
The Disk Management output you posted above (post # 31) shows you have two physical hard disks (232GB and 931GB). You have an efi partition on each drive. Was that intentional because if you do that you will probably need to select the second OS from the BIOS each time. It is much simpler to use one efi partition on one machine. You also show a Dynamic disk partition on the larger drive which is also going to a problem, particularly since that is the disk on which you have unalllocated space and on which I expect you are trying to install Sabayon. If you are getting a black screen using nomodeset on the kernel line should help.
Some info on Dynamic disks in windows with Linux at the links below.
If you have a manual option to install Sabayon, use that and keep notes of steps. If you use one of the auto-install options like Install Alongside, it might work fine but, if it doesn't, you won't have a clue what went wrong.
If you are interested in Sabayon specifically, I would suggest you go to their site below which has an FAQ and several other links.
Some Linux systems will boot with Secure Boot enabled. To find out if Sabayon is one of these, best go to their site.
The Disk Management output you posted above (post # 31) shows you have two physical hard disks (232GB and 931GB). You have an efi partition on each drive. Was that intentional because if you do that you will probably need to select the second OS from the BIOS each time. It is much simpler to use one efi partition on one machine. You also show a Dynamic disk partition on the larger drive which is also going to a problem. If you are getting a black screen using nomodeset on the kernel line should help.
I can't really recall what I did since I installed the OS back in late 2016 on my laptop and decided to come back later, however it surely wasn't intentional for the EFI partition.
I tried removing those and it wouldn't give me that option.
I will use Linux for myself, but I have my little cousins occasionally play on the computer so I am keeping a small portion of Windows 10.
I would go full Linux if I learned how to use it more.
The only OS you have is windows. Did you at one time have some other OS installed? I wouldn't expect that any Linux install would create a second EFI partition. An EFI partition would usually be detected during install and a separate EFI boot file for your Linux would be created there to boot EFI. Given your current setup, you might be better off installing VirtualBox and then installing Linux of your choice in VirtualBox to use.
I did have Bodhi installed, I just deleted the partition before I took the picture.
I know my setup is sloppy, but I'd rather just install it instead of Virtual Box.
I am willing to fix it whenever I can. I prefer the original OS at peak performance over emulating the OS.
Yeah, I been busy today, so I haven't been working on much.
I mainly been trying to get it booted up, but fails.
Once I boot it, I can sort out partitioning later.
Yeah, I been busy today, so I haven't been working on much.
I mainly been trying to get it booted up, but fails.
Once I boot it, I can sort out partitioning later.
KMS (Kernel Mode Setting)
Since the linux-sabayon 2.6.33 kernel version KMS got gently introduced. If you enable KMS you let the Kernel set the screen resolution instead of Xorg. For Intel based video this has become mandatory since xorg-server 1.7 and it is enabled by default for that.
To use KMS with the Opensource ati driver:
radeon.modeset=1
To completely disable KMS:
nomodeset
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