Greetings all, System76 support informs me they have successfully reproduced the issue on a machine with hardware identical to mine, meaning this is likely a hardware compatibility issue and not a faulty hardware issue.
I would like to imagine if we can just figure out the proper boot paramaters here, the installer will just work, but I am out of my wheelhouse here and could use some help. In an attempt to unblock myself, I went ahead and set up a debian live USB planning to do a manual install with debootstrap and, surprise surprise, the live USB image also has a debian-installer style boot menu, and exhibits the exact same behavior as the installer does, so I cannot boot into a live debian system from the USB images either. I'm trying to create an ubuntu live thumb drive now so I can run debootstrap from there... Thanks! -Carl -- Carl Myers PGP Key ID 3537595B PGP Key fingerprint 9365 0FAF 721B 992A 0A20 1E0D C795 2955 3537 595B
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