Hi, I’m in dire need of assistance with my NomadBSD. I’m a first-time user and I know absolutely nothing at all about BSD and I’m hoping that I can get some suggestions and instructions on how to resolve the issues I’m having getting it to run and boot to a proper GUI.
The problem I am having is NomadBSD seems to just boot to a totally black screen. I have no idea how long it takes for it to get going when I first start it up or what commands I need to enter at the initial start prompt to ensure it starts up correctly.
I managed to kind of solve a problem I was having with it failing to continue booting (NomadBSD would quit with an “Error 2”), but now it gets to a black screen and seems to stop there with no obvious indication that it’s still running or totally crashed. I’ve tried the “fixes” for AMD/ATI GPUs in the handbooklet, but that isn’t working. I am unsure if the issue is due to user error, a corrupted image file or a bad USB thumb drive (though I doubt the drive is at fault since it had a functioning image of Linux Mint Cinnamon 19 on it just prior to me re-flashing it with NomadBSD).
I am trying to run Release 14.1 and my system specs are as follows:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H, 8 Cores/16 Threads
Discrete GPU: AMD Radeon 5500M (Navi 14 XTM)
Integrated GPU: AMD Radeon Vega (Renoir Mobile APU)
RAM: 16 GB
Host OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Home 22H2
The type of system is an MSI Bravo 17 laptop, model number A4DDR. I don’t have a separate monitor with HDMI to verify if NomadBSD is actually functioning and I’m simply stuck in external video out mode. I don’t want to just give up on NomadBSD, but I’m at a loss and would really appreciate some expert advice and suggestions. Thank you in advance.