cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/54075197

ArchLinux doesn’t boot past the bootloader

I’m able to get to the BIOS on my desktop. But when greeted by the boot loader to choose between Arch or Arch fallback, after choosing, I lose display.

Sometimes I can get display, but its not consistent. Draining my computers power by unplugging the power cord and holding the power button works sometimes. Sometimes a simple reboot will work.

I have an Asus b550m-plus motherboard. It was working great with Arch until recently.

Edit: it uses by press e at the boot loader then putting nomodeset at the end, but the display is choppy compared to when its able to boot without it.

I’m using the systemd-boot loader.

I have a 6900xt GPU. The post I cross posted has more information in the comments. One common error I’m getting is:

probe with driver amdgpu failed with error -22

Here is what my GPU is:

lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display'

09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 21 [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT] (rev c0) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device 232c Kernel modules: amdgpu 09:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio Controller

This is my systemd-boot /boot/loader/entries/ – conf file:

# Created by: archinstall
# Created on: 2025-07-06_15-37-58
title   Arch Linux (linux)
linux   /vmlinuz-linux
initrd  /initramfs-linux.img
options cryptdevice=PARTUUID=fg45ehg45-uj675-j76-j76-56756uj56j6:root root=/dev/mapper/root zswap.enabled=0 rootflags=subvol=@ rw rootfstype=btrfs splash