bayf
April 6, 2026, 11:05pm
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I’ve had to use safe graphics mode for as long as I can remember when installing Ubuntu from scratch on my 5950X/3080 system.
The beta is essentially uninstallable in it’s current form
Standard boot - black screen/display sleep
Safe graphics - hangs during boot at the point it tries to switch graphics mode (I think)
Even can’t boot the server edition to get a text login prompt
Tried passing numerous kernel args from grub…
Only way I could get this distro to reach the desktop was to repackage the ISO with Cubic to include the NVIDIA drivers, then it works perfectly!
It would be helpful if you posted the full computer specifications for your machine.
Also, which arguments did you use? Please post those too.
Thanks and welcome to Ubuntu Discourse
bayf
April 7, 2026, 8:10am
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Graphics hardware:
EVGA RTX 3080 XC3
Other:
ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero X570
Tried various combinations of nomodeset, module blacklisting and nouveau options found online
If you use legacy boot, that is also broken in the installer. You can complete an install but the system fails to boot. It will get to the desktop once but reboot and grub can no longer find the partitions…
