18.04 on MSI GE63 - boot hangs at 'Loading initial ramdisk' without `acpi=off`
I've been trying to get Ubuntu 18.04 LTS running on my new MSI GE63 Raider. I can get into the live USB by passing acpi=off
and then running the installer. After that, I install the proprietary nvidia driver (nvidia-driver-390
). Also I have tried installing nvidia-prime
and bumblebee. I've also blacklisted nouveau.
The issue is that I cannot for the life of me get it to boot without passing acpi=off
, because otherwise it hangs at a purple screen. When trying in recovery mode with any of the included kernels (4.15.0-20 and 4.15.0-29) I can see it hangs at
Loading initial ramdisk.
In addition to the above I tried passing following parameters in GRUB:
acpi=ht
acpi_osi=
acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2009"
acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Linux"
nomodeset
nogpumanager
... and a couple more (I forget after trying so many)
The specs of this laptop are:
- intel i7 8750h (6 core)
- nvidia gtx1060m
- 16gb of RAM
- 256gb ssd (which holds the windows 10 partition and the "/"
- 1000gb hdd (which holds the data for windows and "/home"
The BIOS settings are set to UEFI. Fast boot and secure boot are both disabled. I've also tried switching off Intel speedstep and c-states, both to no avail.
Also, I have tried to install Debian 9, Lubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Deepin 15.5 and Mint 18, all of which need the added acpi=off
flag.
Does anyone have any advice for this?
Thanks in advance!
Solution 1:
I ended up doing a bios update. I had to disable fastboot and secureboot again after that, and now it works like a charm!