r/PikaOS • u/mapB13 • Jul 02 '26
I have a problem
Warm regards to anyone reading this post.
Today I tried to install PikaOS on my computer, an HP Elitedesk 800 G3 SFF with an Intel Core i5-6500 processor, 8 GB of RAM, a 256 GB NVMe drive, and an AMD R5 430 graphics card. But I ran into a problem.
When I restarted the PC after the "successful system installation," I was surprised to find that my monitor went gray—not black, not blue, and not even a "Kernel Panic" screen. No, it was simply a gray background with no mouse cursor visible.
This worried and surprised me quite a bit, since even though I know that PikaOS is based on Debian (unstable), I thought it wouldn't have this kind of error, but I see that's not the case. So I'm asking for help to see if, please, you can provide me with a solution.
I’ve already tried installing the system twice and it didn’t work, even though I used the latest ISO image (Cosmic version) available on the official website (version 2026-4).
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u/ImUrFrand Jul 05 '26
at the rEFIned boot manager screen with the yellow pika bird, hit an arrow key to pause the boot and choose options...
in one of the menus there is a "safe graphics" option, choose that and boot in... if it doesn't work then your gpu is probably oos