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Hello,
I bought a 7920 with RHEL 8 Workstation installed. Pretty quickly I realized the factory configured /root partition at 54GB was not large enough. You can't shrink other XFS partitions to make room for /root to grow, so I decided to just do a fresh install and re-configure partitions to suit my needs. I made a RHEL 8.6 boot USB (via RedHat iso) and reinstalled the OS. The installation went fine but the machine won't boot.
I can get to the grub menu and edit boot parameters to show debug info, but it goes by so fast I can't really see where it's hanging. It appears to run through the loading process then the screen goes black. Some times I get the Dell logo along with a RedHat logo and a small circular loading graphic, but the login window never appears...just a black screen. I have an NVIDIA RTX A6000 graphics card and assume it will default to VGA mode if the NVDIDIA drivers aren't yet installed (?).
Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jack
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Hello, I am Muktesh the case owner, I am writing you as I wanted to check if your system is working fine and we can close the case, please feel free to reach, thanks.
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Glad that this issue was resolved !!
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Posted November 17th, 2022 14:00
After trying several different re-installs and BIOS changes that didn't work, I finally selected the RHEL installer "Troubleshooting" menu item. In that section there's an option to install RHEL in "basic graphics mode". That did the trick. Now it boots and I can proceed with installing the NVIDIA driver, etc.