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I am trying to install a Linux distro without any success. The hard drive's current OS is Linux Mint although I usually boot into Windows 10. I have also tried installing Ubuntu and Arch Linux with the same problem: I do not get a fancy user interface and whenever I click Install my screen goes black and sometimes the PC reboots. I suppose it has to do with my external graphics card which is an Nvidia GTX 970 OC. My questions are:

  1. Is that a common problem with a fix to it that I haven't found?
  2. Is the support for newer hardware that bad on Linux? and of course
  3. Does anyone know to fix it?
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    UEFI or BIOS mode?
    – GAD3R
    Jul 30, 2016 at 12:20

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Adding the nomodeset parameter instructs the kernel to not load video drivers and use BIOS modes instead until X is loaded.

  1. Immediately after the motherboard / computer manufacturer logo splash screen appears when the computer is booting, with BIOS, quickly press and hold the Shift key, which will bring up a boot menu screen. With UEFI press (perhaps several times) the Esc key to get to the boot menu screen. Sometimes the manufacturer's splash screen is a part of the Windows bootloader, so when you power up the machine it goes straight to the boot menu screen, and then pressing Shift or Esc is unnecessary.

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  1. Press the e key to edit a menu entry. This will bring up an openSUSE Leap screen that looks like this:

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  1. Use the arrow keys to navigate when screen editing the above screen. Navigate to the line on this screen that starts with linuxefi.

  2. Replace splash=silent by nomodeset splash=silent. This change is only temporary — it will just be used once and GRUB won’t remember it in the future. Press Ctrl+X or F10 to boot with the nomodeset option that was added. If you make a mistake, press Esc to go back to the previous screen.

To make the change permanent you need to add it to the /etc/default/grub file. Append nomodeset inside the quotes of the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="...". Then update your grub settings with sudo update-grub.

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Your issue stems from running with -nomodeset option off. When arriving at the welcome screen enter f1 to get to the advanced welcome screen. After enter f6 to select -nomodeset.

For more details and discussion see this

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  • thanks for the answer. unfortunately I don't get the interface you think i get. I am greeted with few options to choose by arrow buttons. The only other buttons that react are E (for some strange properties) and C for a grub console.
    – Niklas Vest
    Jan 21, 2016 at 19:48
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I also had what sounds like the same issue. I expect you have resolved it by now.

I pressed Fn'5 to change the kernel settings and chose 'No ACPI' which did the trick for me.

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