I've created a bootable USB for Zorin OS 15 Core.
When I boot from the USB, I'm presented with 3 options (normal, safe mode and NVIDIA), all of which lead to a black screen.
I'm using a Lenovo Legion 5 laptop. It has a Ryzen 5800H and an RTX 3050 Ti.
I've disabled Secure Boot in the BIOS and Fast Startup in Windows 11.
I've also tried to switch from hybrid gpu mode to discrete gpu only.
I've googled my issue and read through threads that seemed relevant but couldn't find an actual solution to the problem.
AMD and Nvidia. That is quite a combo...
The normal solutions of "nomodeset" would do little good as without an intel Graphics card to fall back to, it must have the Nvidia Drivers already in place at init.
What you may need to do is boot, then drop directly to the Recovery menu and from there to Enable Networking. Once you enable networking, bump back up to the Recovery Menu and arrow key down to drop to prompt.
From the Prompt terminal, locate the file 20-intel.confor similar that should be in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and rm that file. (If you do not have the locate command, you can install it with sudo apt install mlocate). For example:
rm /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
Once done, still in the Prompt Terminal, add the repo:
Version 16 installs fine, though WiFi is unreliable, as with other distros I've tried. Not a fault of the OS of course, just the available driver. Thanks.