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Booting issue on Dell XPS 13 7390
agFM does not boot on Dell XPS 13 7390 (standard laptop not 2in1). My guess is its related to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/dzluza/dell_xps_13_7390_wont_boot_from_usb/
User says agFM works on other systems - just not on Dell XPS 13 7390. Etcher/Rufus USB drives work OK for various Linux grub2 OS's - just not agFM UEFI64 on 7390. agFM multi grub2 ISO and E2B agFM also does not boot on 7390. Symptom is some 'small text' displayed which cannot be read + hang.
Interestingly Ventoy 1.0.14 boots just fine. In all fairness any text is gonna be small on a 4k screen thats 13in diag. Using Rufus 3.11 to write the agFM multiarch iso results in a hang with with no text output.
What will happen if you press [F4] then press [T] to switch to text mode? https://github.com/a1ive/grub2-filemanager/issues/236
Might help to know what the small text says? Can you take a photo/video and enlarge it, or connect a second monitor?
I got this laptop at the beginning of the year and use E2B on a daily basis. I've had this booting issue the whole time, but there's been several updates to both agFM and E2B over that time frame. I'm thinking at some point I was getting more text output. However now if I boot the agFM multiarch iso written with Rufus 3.11 I'm getting the Dell logo and no text output, just a hang. It doesn't respond to any key presses including the aforementioned f4,T or f4+T. The Dell logo never disappears, which is what further in dicates the hang for me. When I boot to the agFM on my E2B drive I get a period following by an underscore and a hang with Dell logo. The period and underscore stay onscreen too.
http://bbs.wuyou.net/forum.php?mod=redirect&goto=findpost&ptid=417545&pid=4099900
Someone reported that after this commit (https://github.com/a1ive/grub/commit/de2bb17cd61c31f5a459b6242a8511bfd599d0b9), terminal_output gfxterm leads to black screen.
That commit was on May 27, 2020. As previously stated the issue was present on my end from the time I first tried it on this machine back in January. Although I'm happy to test and troubleshoot anything. I haven't compiled this project before but I'll give it a shot.