r/MXLinux • u/jomara200 • 2d ago
Help request Cannot boot into Live USB
I have an HP ENVY Desktop PC TE01-2000i (1K4E9AV). I have Secure Boot enabled. I want to keep Secure Boot enabled.
I downloaded the MX Linux KDE version. Upon booting into the USB, I select the systemd choice. I get an immediate error of EFI: Failed to meaure data for event. I cannot even get into the live disk to install.
Generally speaking, on other versions of Linux, like Mint, I have had to add noapic to get live disks started, maybe due to having an NVidia card? Once I have installed the distro AND then installed the NVidia drivers, I can remove noapic and it will generally start. With Fedora I had no issues whatsoever with Secure Boot after following Nvidia driver instructions. I did have issues with Wayland, in particular with game controllers, I guess due to some restrictions within Wayland.
With Linux Mint, I was able to install, but had frequent issues when rebooting. It generally would start on a cold start, but always got stuck if I tried reboot. Once inside it ran perfectly well, just some kind of hardware issues, I assume, on reboot. This HP tower seems to have endless hardware issues with Linux. It has an 11th gen I7-11700 Intel CPU, an Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU. I wonder about that one as it says (Lite hash rate) on linux. It is supposed to be some kind of anti-mining thing they added to it. Would that cause these issues?
According to this link: https://eathealthy365.com/the-rtx-3060-mining-limiter-the-full-story-in-2026/
Quote: The restriction was a technology NVIDIA called “Lite Hash Rate” or LHR. It was a combination of firmware, driver, and GPU BIOS checks designed to detect the specific workload of Ethereum (ETH) mining and cut the card’s performance—its “hash rate”—in half.
It's that combination of firmware, driver and GPU BIOS checks that maybe causes issues?
What can I do to even test out this KDE version? I did try adding noapic to the systemd selection, but it just got stuck at the above error.
Any help appreciated.
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u/Typeonetwork 2d ago
Just to test, try it with XFCE and MX Linux and since it doesn't use Wayland you can see if that might be the issue. You'll need to sacrifice another USB stick but it would be an easy test.
Does noapic come in Flatpak? The only time I had problems with version control was when I wanted to blur my background with OBS Studio, installed it from the regular installer, but it didn't work until I used Flatpak as the Flatpak was a newer version. You could also see if there is an Appimage for what you need.
That's all I got. You're more advanced that I am so I hope that gives you some ideas.