Black Screen During Install

[godtoall82]

When I boot into USB drive and select “install gamerOS”, text appears “SHA256” then goes black. I waited about 5 minutes but screen stayed black. What am I doing wrong?

[godtoall82]

So I figured out how to get by the black screen, but now I am running into this when I select the install drive.

Any advice?

[alkazar]

Thank you for reporting.

From the log it seems there is a bug in the install script. It is not correctly finding the first partition. I will try to get a fix out ASAP.

May I ask what the initial issue with the black screen was and how you worked around it?

[godtoall82]

Thank you for reporting.

From the log it seems there is a bug in the install script. It is not correctly finding the first partition. I will try to get a fix out ASAP.

May I ask what the initial issue with the black screen was and how you worked around it?

Using an Asus ROG Strix mobo, I just disabled CSM compatibility in BIOS.

[alkazar]

I think I have fixed the issue, here are the instructions to try it out:

1. boot into your existing USB installer
2. select a target disk, when the installer warns about formatting the disk, select "No" ; this will drop you to a shell
3. use curl to downlad the patched script from here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gamer-os/frzr/master/frzr-bootstrap
4. assign execution permissions to the downloaded script i.e. chmod +x frzr-bootstrap
5. copy the downloaded script to /usr/bin/frzr-bootstrap
6. run ./install.sh to start the installer again

Please let me know how it goes.

[godtoall82]

Getting “no file or directory exists” when entering chmod command.

[alkazar]

is the file there? i think you have to download it with curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gamer-os/frzr/master/frzr-bootstrap > frzr-bootstrap

[godtoall82]

Just a heads up, I haven’t given up. Just been too busy to try the fix again. I will try again in the next couple of days.

[godtoall82]

is the file there? i think you have to download it with curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gamer-os/frzr/master/frzr-bootstrap > frzr-bootstrap

IT WORKED!!!

[alkazar]

Thanks for sticking with it. Do you mean that downloading the file worked, or were you able to successfully install GamerOS?

[godtoall82]

Yes. Installed successfully following your instructions. Thanks, working great!

[alkazar]

Awesome. Thank you for letting me know. I will build new install media with the fix soon.