F31 install fail AMD Zen2

[Neal Becker]

I ordered a new workstation from a well-known linux vendor.  The 
workstations has:

2x AMD 7262 CPUs
Supermicro H11DSI-B MB
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti

The vendor says the MB is updated to latest (so this is not
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Releases-Linux-Z...)

and they have tried different memory and graphics cards.  Unfortunately, 
they did not say HOW it fails to install.

They claim to have tried different Fedora versions.  I'm assuming they tried 
F31 because I ordered with "latest Fedora version".

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Neal

[linux guy]

Send it to me... I'll get it running !

You might want to contact Wendell of Level1Techs on YouTube.   He has
installed and tested Linux on a lot of high end AMD machines.  He is a
"server guy" too.

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 1:34 PM Neal Becker  wrote:
> I ordered a new workstation from a well-known linux vendor.  The
> workstations has:
>
> 2x AMD 7262 CPUs
> Supermicro H11DSI-B MB
> NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
>
> The vendor says the MB is updated to latest (so this is not
>
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Releases-Linux-Z...
> )
>
> and they have tried different memory and graphics cards.  Unfortunately,
> they did not say HOW it fails to install.
>
> They claim to have tried different Fedora versions.  I'm assuming they
> tried
> F31 because I ordered with "latest Fedora version".
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Neal
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[Neal Becker]

Here is more info:

+ You tried Fedora F31?

- Yes, this is correct.

+ Please describe the failure mode.

- Fedora attempts to load but freezes on the first screen and as soon as the 
mouse pointer comes up.

+ Will the latest Ubuntu install (I believe that is 19.10)?

- This was installed with all drivers loaded and tested successfully.  It is 
currently running tests on that OS.

linux guy wrote:
> Send it to me... I'll get it running !
>
> You might want to contact Wendell of Level1Techs on YouTube.   He has
> installed and tested Linux on a lot of high end AMD machines.  He is a
> "server guy" too.
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 1:34 PM Neal Becker  wrote:
> > I ordered a new workstation from a well-known linux vendor.  The
> > workstations has:
> >
> > 2x AMD 7262 CPUs
> > Supermicro H11DSI-B MB
> > NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
> >
> > The vendor says the MB is updated to latest (so this is not
> >
> > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Releases-Linux-Z...
> > )
> >
> > and they have tried different memory and graphics cards.  Unfortunately,
> > they did not say HOW it fails to install.
> >
> > They claim to have tried different Fedora versions.  I'm assuming they
> > tried
> > F31 because I ordered with "latest Fedora version".
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Neal
> > _______________________________________________
> > users mailing list -- [e-mail]
> > To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]
> > Fedora Code of Conduct:
> > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
> > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]
> >

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2020-01-27 at 15:34 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> 2x AMD 7262 CPUs
> Supermicro H11DSI-B MB
> NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti

I've no idea if it's relevant, but you appear to have an AMD
motherboard with an Nvidia GPU. Although I'm sure this is legitimate in
theory, I wonder if the Nvidia drivers for high-end GPUs play well with
the AMD mobo.

It may also be worth asking if they tried the proprietary Nvidia driver
as well as Nouveau. It's hard to guess what might be wrong if they
won't give you specifics of the installation error.

Just a thought.

poc