Yeah once we get everything going that is the plan!
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These notes are on the GTS iso, downloaded tonight and installed on a 2018 Dell G7 nVidia “Optimus” equipped laptop.
Installation on bare metal went fine. The installer is nice looking, though the process was a bit slow on my machine compared to other install experiences. Maybe a little over 18 minutes in total. The installer has "No Localization for ID: “Welcome to Bluefin” and “No localization for ID:” in the other two sections that are visible in the part of the installer that is displayed while the install is actively taking place.
I turned on secureboot for this install. I did not select disc encryption.
The computer booted fine after initial install, but my nVidia GPU is dead in the water. The nVidia app is installed of course, but it cannot see my GPU. From earlier Bluefin installs with this same setup, I can usually see both GPUs in Mission Center, but this time I can only see the onboard Intel GPU. I’m assuming the nVidia drivers are just failing to load.
Bedtime now, but if I find time tomorrow I will see if the nVidia stable ISO has the same issues with the nVidia drivers failing to load.
What Nvidia GPU is in there? Is it supported by the Nvidia open drivers?
Ah, that might well be it. This one has a GeForce GTX 1060 in it. It works fine with the drivers from RPM Fusion on Fedora 42, but I’m not sure about the “open” drivers.
That’s a Pascal card, and needs the proprietary drivers.
ref
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Tested the new image. Used Ventoy with the Grub2 option. Install working without connecting to internet now
- Hardware: HP Probook 450
- Drive: 256GB SSD drive
- Install time (from live USB): 06:18 (fastest install time I have ever seen for any ublue installation ever)
Issue on boot: it seems to be selecting the EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.efi by default, this results in a “StartImage failed: Load Error”
However, if I manaully select EFI/BOOT/fbx64.efi then the system boots up normally for me. Also future boots work normally after manually selecting the right efi file
Boot time from Grub: 23 seconds (Nice!)
Turned on secure boot and everything seems to be working with secure boot enabled.
Other than the default EFI option not working and the url links in the installer have the text “No localisation for ID …”. It looks like you are almost there.
Edit: Tested the GTS image
- Install time (from live USB): 06:20
- Boot time from Grub: 21 seconds
Interestingly I didn’t have the EFI issue with the GTS image
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Nvidia ISOs for older cards are no longer being made but they are still supported as long as nvidia still has releases for them. As such, you can rebase to the correct image after install (from bluefin-dx-nvidia-open to bluefin-dx-nvidia) for example.
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Oh, great idea. Thanks!
Anyone seeing this issue?
Had it last week, closed as a dupe of a known issue.
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For latest there is the issue that right after boot I get:
Authentication is nneded to run ‘/usr/sbin/os-prober’ as the super user
this does not happen with gts or stable
Booting with ventoy still does not work, it takes a while but I get those timeouts
Will there be a live iso for xfce or cosmic?
Booting from a Ventoy usb definately works here though
You can boot with Ventoy, you just need to select the Grub2 option rather than Normal boot.
With regards to xfce, they would need to support Wayland fully first and then it would depend if someone in the community is willing to maintain it.
Same for cosmic once it releases.
Honestly just having Gnome and KDE (with Aurora) is good enough for most people.
2 posts were split to a new topic: Cosmic desktop
This thread continues to veer offtopic, please create new topics if you want to discuss other things, we’re trying to get these ISOs finished so we need to focus, thanks!
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When I open and close the installer the console prints:
Errors
[ResolverError(Reference(Variable { id: “distro” }))].
at /github/home/rpmbuild/BUILD/readymade-nightly-20250430.b8adbe7-build/readymade-b8adbe782eeb67a456714fd1ee66340e6b9bf04a/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/i18n-embed-0.15.4/src/fluent.rs:170
followed by a segfault.
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Main Readymade developer here, just hopping in rq addressing some concerns.
FAQs
How to report bugs to readymade directly
How to help with translations
Either via our weblate instance or pull requests via the GitHub repo. You’ll need to fork it.
How to report a bug
The most important part is sending out the full logs, not just part of the error screen. Avoid screenshots.
Problems
Failed to format a message for language “en-US” and id “page-welcome”
Please ignore this error. I don’t know why it happens, and it isn’t actually a problem (the message translates just fine??)
The app segfaults
If you just closed the app and it segfaults, please ignore the segfault. Otherwise, please report the bug.
If possible, please check for duplicates, find if the issue has been reported by others before. If the issue is not exact (or when doubt), you can create a new issue.
doesn’t work under BIOS
BIOS is not supported for now. readymade#69
Failed to reread partition table: Device or resource busy
readymade#59
The live system doesn’t boot / cannot get to the installer welcome screen
Report to the titanoboa repo instead.
The installed system doesn’t boot after reboot
Also report to titanoboa repo.
The wording is bad / translation is weird
report to readymade
The destination page (os-prober) doesn’t work
Should be fixed already; if not please report to readymade.
Doesn’t filter out the boot medium / root drive
report to readymade with your lsblk configurations.
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Ok fresh ISOs are going up now!
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The installer doesn’t seem to be present in the latest bluefin-live-nvidia-open-stable iso.
It just boots to the desktop. Installer icon isn’t present in the overview either.
Today on the left, Tuesday on the right:
Hah yep, ran into this this morning, the latest set is up to date, we’ll likely be pushing new ones all day.