I did tried the first three items but no one worked. Whenever I pressed ENTER, the screen became black. and the led on USB drive stopped flashing (meaning no reading action from the USB drive).
I also tried different parameters in grub. But all the same result as the above
However, if I install Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop, the parameter "nomodeset" can work. and the screen shows something like loading files and the installation is no problem.
Can you please chech .iso checksum
The sha256sum for the fixed Pro iso is: 1addffb6100a5ba340266b709b367ded7094aa563143dd98ba577aaf00498590
Than we can try something else. Btw, I had same issue during my installation.
I tried everything, but what helped me actually is rewriting USB again with Balena Etcher you can try that also.. And use third option from your picture
Hi,
Yes the sha256sum of my downloaded Zorin-OS-16-Pro-64-bit.iso is what you provide, 1addffb6100a5ba340266b709b367ded7094aa563143dd98ba577aaf00498590.
Actually, I have created two USB drives with belenaEtcher. When installing on Alienware Area 51M, the results are the same.
I just created another USB with balenaEtcher.
Boot with it and same result, black screen after choosing safe graphics, which already has nomodeset parameter.
below is the boot menu of my BIOS and some configuration of BIOS
You are awesome. The detail and information, including what you have tried - you really shortened the thread.
Sadly, looking at what you have tried - a bunch of stuff we would have recommended trying.
In addition to your other grub parameters you have tried, you might try pcie_aspm=off or rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1
Just for kicks, what are your options on the sata connection. I know changing that to raid worked for NVMe drives, which is why I asked earlier, but another option may allow it to boot.
The only other question I have is how you wrote the image, efi/legacy mode, dd, I'm assuming you used fat32?
Since the first day I got the alienware area 51m, I broke RAID and switched to AHCI mode for the internal NVME SSD.
The target SSD to which I plan to install Zorin OS is the internal NVME SSD (512GB).
My balenaEtcher is ver 1.5.121. When using balenaEtcher, there is no option of filesystem for me to choose, no the option of efi/legacy.
But on my Alienware laptop (below video file) video Alienware load failed
You can see that the red led on my USB flashes when reading from/writing to my USB drive. After I pressed F10 in grub, the red led flashed about 3 times and then stopped flashing. I even failed to enter console (by pressing Ctrl + ALT +F1).
I doubt that Alienware Area 51M can not find the followed image file such as /casper/vmlinuz or /casper/initrd.lz4.
I understand that you broke raid, but the sata must be in raid for most NVMe drives, not ahci. Ahci will fail to boot a usb for whatever reason. Change that back to raid, without configuring a raid, and try to boot the usb.
Hi,
I just used Rufus to create two USB drives for test. One is written with ISO mode, and the other is written with DD mode.
And this time, I changed the partition schema to GPT, so the Target system automatically changed to UEFI(non CSM).
File system kept the fixed item, NTFS.
I just followed your suggestion, changing SATA mode to RAID.
Well, same result. I tested three options of installation, the screen still became black. I kept waiting for over two minutes for each installation option.
