Install failing on Acemagic Vista Mini V1

General
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I have a brand new Acemagic Vista Mini V1 ( ACEMAGIC Vista Mini V1 Mini PC, Twin Lake N150(up to 3.6GHz), 16GB DDR4 RAM). I have a new formatted Crucial P3 NVMe 2T SSD formatted to ext4 installed.

I put the startos-0.3.5.1-39de098_x86_64-nonfree.iso onto a usb stick and inserted it into the PC. When powering up it all looks normal and I get the grub boot screen with the 3s count down. It continues to boot and then stops with errors when it gets to the following screen.

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(I can only add one image as a new user but the screen scrolled a couple more lines and listed a name of log file .local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log)

Any ideas why? It seems like the file .xAuthority does not exist.

I tried secure boot enabled and disabled.

I tried booting with it disconnected from the monitor but I can’t tell if it has stopped again or not. The screen stays blank when I plug the monitor back in.

I’m stumped.

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This error is very specific to your graphics/monitor combo. Turn off the device, disconnect the monitor and turn back on. Then follow the guides, the first step of which is to visit http://start.local/

If you get into trouble there, you can log into your router and find the IP address and try that.

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Thanks. I got there in the end.

I tried a Debian live iso but that didn’t work either but strangely a live openSUSE live iso did work so that proved it was a driver issue.

After booting headless, start.local didn’t work, the browser just timed out, so I had to check the ip address it got assigned by the router. Once I used that I could see the server and complete the install.

How do I add the PC to the list?

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If you mean the Good Hardware List, make sure to mention the headless caveat.

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Yep, that’s it. Left my comment. Hopefully an admin will ad it to the list.