Manjaro Live Environment Boot FAIL -- Intel KabyLake w/ hybrid Nvidia graphics

[thegreenhundred]

[UPDATE] - 6/9/2017 at 2:58PM

Currently able to boot the 17.0.2 pre-alpha with the following kernel boot options:

acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2009" modprobe.blacklist=nouveau

Courtesy of: Mikeew83

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Just downloaded the Manjaro 17.0.1 Gnome edition (4.9 Kernel) and have been unable to boot to the live installer environment on 2 different Dell Precision 5520 (2017) Kaby Lake systems. The previous gen Skylake based 5510's work very well.

I can reach single user & multi user targets when specifying them as a kernel boot option and then "startx" from from there leads to OS / X11 / Kernel / Kernel command line information being printed to screen before the system hangs without ability to switch to an alternate TTY.

Otherwise if I boot without specifying a non-graphical target it hangs at "[OK] Reached target Graphical Interface"

BIOS is up-to-date [latest 1.3.3] and I am using the left side USB port to avoid issues with the "powershare" function (also disabled in BIOS)

So far I have tried various kernel line options [some very blindly tbh] including:
intel_idle.max_cstate=0
modprobe.blacklist=i915
noveau.blacklist=1
i915.modeset=0
noveau.modeset=0
nomodeset
debug
systemd.log_level=debug
Various acpi_os!= flags also

Honestly my biggest question is, how do I get more verbose output to the screen immediately after it says "[OK] reached traphical target" ? What is the best strategy for continuing troubleshooting on this?

FYI: (started with i3 community edition but had same issue)

[yawanthan]

Hello,

If you do a search on this site, You will find many answers to help you. This has been a common issue.

[thegreenhundred]

Thank you, I had to try searching again to get some relevant information. .

Actually I did make a kind of progress by finding the 17.0.2 pre-alpha release which actually does boot to a fancy boot-loader but cannot successfully boot the live OS there either.

Preview Manjaro-i3 17.0.2

A stable preview build of the upcoming Manjaro-i3 17.0.2 is now available for download. [image] Apart from Manjaro base changes to be read up here, the i3 edition received some little specific adjustments: fixed ranger image preview set default keyboard navigation for English keyboards export $EDITOR variable prepared config for easier application of @unix121's themes and scripts.

The best lead I was able to find implicates lib32-mesa dependencies but I'm not sure where to go from that. I went to the lab and got a couple of other kabylake based laptops to boot but the 5520 is still giving me the runaround.

[dalto]

I don't have a lot of helpful advice but I don't think it is a kaby lake issue as I have done several installs on kaby lake hardware without issue.

I would take a spin through the bios and ensure that they didn't add anything that would stop linux from running properly turned on by default in the newest model.

[thegreenhundred]

Good thoughts. I'm right there with you as I've had it boot on a few other kaby lake models. As far as BIOS goes I'm extremely familiar with Dell BIOS' and have gone through this one reset to defaults & re-configured 3 times.

New development:

I tried the 17.0.2 i3 pre-alpha which resulted in a failure to boot.

Then I tried the 17.0.2 Gnome pre-alpha which is working well so far holds breath

[flipper]

Did you already try to boot with

systemd.mask=mhwd-live.service

[thegreenhundred]

I'm curious to test that in a bit.

I'm excited to announce I have the current "winning combo" for booting at least the installer.

acpi_osi=! And acpi_osi="Windows 2009" modprobe.blacklist=nouveau

Courtesy of:
Mikeew83

[thegreenhundred]

Guys, this is a beautiful experience. Time to install it on my main 5520 and settle in. Thanks to everyone!