nvidia ISO variants do not produce working system

[ylor]

Firstly thanks for your work here, I really love the Bluefin model. I'm new to Linux on the desktop but not to Unix in general. After many unsuccessful tries to install several versions of Bluefin I finally pieced together a workaround to get a functional Bluefin system and posting here to document the issue and workaround.

The System

Desktop system

• Chipset: B650 AORUS ELITE AX
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
• RAM 64GB

Happy to provide any other info needed

The Issue

All of the currently provided nvidia variant ISOs (gts or latest) fail to produce a working system (for me). ISOs were run with both Ventoy and Balena with the same results.

gts-39-20240804

• SHA256: ebb170724b4b02bb1a957f524b7c7175babbccb890d2c9436aa5ac8414e758fd
• Crashes on first launch with message Oh no! Something has gone wrong. and A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a system administrator I read this as a kernel crash/panic but don't know enough of Fedora to capture any more relevant information. Video of first bootup sequence leading to crash below.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3a7a67fc-1a56-4e26-a650-c777c37fea9d

latest-40-20240810

• SHA256: 9cf5d24b3d686b3094ba78ca81609a510fc988da9822169fda6748bae9b00f51
• Boots successfully but UI is unresponsive. I am able to get a console using CTRL+ALT+F5 but since I never created an account I don't know what credentials I could use here. Video of unresponsiveness on first boot below.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/33c59ad2-b303-4b3a-b776-cb12bc597a0a

The Workaround

1. Install Fedora Silverblue (I used Fedora-Silverblue-ostree-x86_64-40-1.14.iso)
2. Go through setup and create your account
3. Rebase to silverblue-nvidia:latest or bluefin-nvidia:latest (maybe others, but these are the only 2 I tested) following these steps
4. UI will be very sluggish, basically unusable so press CTRL+ALT+F5 to access console
5. Login using credentials created in step 2
6. Run ujust nvidia, select set needed kernel modules, and then reboot
7. You (should) now have a working system!

Edit: system is functional but Firefox is very crash happy