On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 8:03 AM Todd Goodman <tsg@bonedaddy.net> wrote:

This is likely not your issue with an integrated Intel GPU, but I was building a new system recently with UEFI, ASUS ROG mobo, and nvidia GPU and had this same issue.

Surprisingly, this turned out to require me to set the simple framebuffer support in the kernel config (I also set the UEFI framebuffer support) or else I would get no screen output after the loading initial ramdisk... message.

Just something I ran into for the first time ever recently

Thanks! This may actually be the crux of all the issues I’ve had. I’ve now got this mobo booting gentoo from disk (instead of usb) while using grub as the boot loader. I have not gotten X11 working. When I make the kernel modifications advised in https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide, I get the same black screen after loading the initrd as I did the first time I started wrestling with this beast. Adding “nomodeset” to the boot command gives me back my screen, but it interferes with X11. So, I’ll take another look at the kernel config with your experience in mind.

Fingers crossed!

John