GUI Mode black screen, although it worked once using another USB stick

[Aging Orange]

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro | Asus Strix GTX 980.

 

I created a boot stick on my MacBook and put it in my desktop. I chose GUI and it started up in the GUI. I only looked around and didn't request a trial key. Shut the machine down. Did some reading over a couple of days and found out the max size of the USB stick, so since the stick I used was 128 GB, I created another one on my desktop (Ubuntu, copied files and used the make_bootable script) on a 8GB stick.

 

Using this stick, I requested a trial key and then booted into the GUI. Except the GUI didn't show up. It goes through the motions like a non-GUI startup, except it just stops. The server did start as I can connect to it from another machine.

 

I retried using the first stick (128 GB) I used since the GUI did work on that one, except now it doesn't want to start up with that stick. I'm assuming because I've created a license on the 8 GB stick.

 

Could it be that I didn't create the 8 GB stick correctly? Is it something else? How can I diagnose this?

 

I did find this post (created ast.conf), but the suggested solution didn't work for me.

[trurl]

UEFI  or Legacy boot?

[Aging Orange]

10 hours ago, trurl said:

UEFI  or Legacy boot?

 

UEFI (saw tutorials using Legacy, but not sure how to set this on my mobo).

 

E: As per your signature, I have attached the diagnostics zip file.

tower-diagnostics-20220209-1101.zip

Edited February 9, 2022 by Aging Orange
Attached diagnostics.

[Aging Orange]

On 2/9/2022 at 12:27 AM, trurl said:

UEFI  or Legacy boot?

 

Is one preferred over the other?

[trurl]

UEFI preferred if it works for you. Try legacy boot to see if gui mode works that way.

On 2/9/2022 at 1:03 AM, Aging Orange said:

using Legacy, but not sure how to set this on my mobo

If there is some place to select UEFI, then change it.

[Aging Orange]

Just now, trurl said:

UEFI preferred if it works for you. Try legacy boot to see if gui mode works that way.

If there is some place to select UEFI, then change it.

 

Do I need to create a new flash drive for this or can I use the existing one?

[Squid]

You may also want to try installing the nVidia Driver 

[trurl]

11 minutes ago, Aging Orange said:

Do I need to create a new flash drive for this or can I use the existing one?

You need to use the same flash drive but configure it for legacy. You can do that from the webUI, Main - Boot Device - Flash - Syslinux Configuration, uncheck UEFI.

 

Or just rename EFI folder on flash to EFI-

[Aging Orange]

13 minutes ago, trurl said:

You need to use the same flash drive but configure it for legacy. You can do that from the webUI, Main - Boot Device - Flash - Syslinux Configuration, uncheck UEFI.

 

Or just rename EFI folder on flash to EFI-

Thank you, this worked.

 

For others with a Gigabyte board: if CSM is enabled in BIOS, Legacy boot is supported. If CSM is disabled, only UEFI boot is supported.

 

E: I only had to change the setting from the webUI.

Edited February 10, 2022 by Aging Orange