Hello,

I have an issue with my new desktop build. I'm assuming this is a software issue, but for all I know, it might be hardware?

I built this new machine 2 days ago. I have 2 drives and I successfully installed Windows 10 on the first. Tonight, I installed Debian 10 AMD64 (via DVD) on the 2nd drive. The installation went well enough. The only problem I encountered during setup was being unable to configure my network via DHCP. GRUB was installed. Upon reboot, I saw booth OS listed. It booted into Debian and I received the following error:

Debian GNU/Linux 10 {machine name} tty1
{machine name} login: [ 5.095012] kvm: disabled by bios

This last line is repeated 6 more times and then boot just hangs.

I have seen some similar posts, but none seem to be exactly like mine. I am reluctant to tool around with my bios without prior knowledge. And I have no need for virtualization.

Any suggestions?

Hardware:
Aorus Master x570 motherboard, BIOS ver. F21
AMD Ryzen 7 3700x
EVGA RTX 2070 SUPER Black Gaming (08G-P4-3071)
Corsair Vengance 16GB RAM
Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 SSD 1TB
Samsung Electronics SSD 960 NVMe PCIe SSD Controller

OS:
Windows 10 Home, installed on Gigabyte Aorus NVMe M2A_Socket (Works fine...)
Debian 10, installed on Samsung 960 NVMe M2B_Socket

Well we are very likely to suggest what was in those other posts you saw. So, there is a good chance we all waste our time. In other words, it would be nice to tell us which similar posts don't apply to your situation.

Personally, I'd go into the BIOS and enable virtualization technologies. Then, hoping the system boots, I would blacklist the kvm kernel module.

Another approach (without doing anything to the BIOS) is blacklisting the module on the Linux command line in the Grub menu. Again this should enable the system to boot, and I can then blacklist kvm properly in /etc/modprobe.d.

If words like blacklisting and Grub are a foreign language to you, I can dig up documentation.

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It was a relatively simple issue, yet one I'd never experienced before.

I went to the Aorus Master UEFI-BIOS and enabled SVM (Gigabyte's version of KVM). Then I rebooted. I quickly go to a login prompt.

I then followed the steps in the following page: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-black...u-debian-linux

It is easy to work through these type of steps, when you're not angry at your machine. ; )