Figured it out.
If this happens, you may need a new HDMI cable or a monitor which has HDMI, rather than an adapter for it.
It also froze during boot afterward, and that was due to kernel version.
So if any of you run into this problem, know that might be a cause.
> Recently setup a new computer.
> Trouble is, every time I try to boot (popOS, about to try Ubuntu) it is just a black screen.
>
> So I get to the boot loader and add the parameter “nomodeset”.
> This is great, until I run AMD’s script to install the drivers. They will cancel saying it uses KMS. But I can’t boot without that being off initially...
> anyone have any suggestions?
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> Ok, thanks for the clarification.
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> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 12:19 PM Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:
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>> Not if the bios is set with boot priority to usb. Change the drive boot priority to make usb less preferred over internal disks.
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>> -mb
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>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 2:48 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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>>> I had a thumb drive plugged in to the computer and it caused the
>>> computer to boot into memtest 86 until I disconnected it. Is that
>>> strange or what?
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