Surface Laptop Go Kernel & Install Question

[rowena12345678 (Nonya Biz)]

Hello all,
I’ve been periodically attempting to install fedora on my surface laptop go since 39. I have heard that this is an issue with the kernel, but I have not been able to find posts of any more specificity. If there’s anybody who could give me some more information or assist me with an install, I would greatly appreciate it. I’'m happy to try again and provide screenshots or any other info, but usually the furthest I can get is a blank screen immediately after install or media check.
I have gotten opensuse to work on the same system, but would like to switch, ideally to kionite.

Surface laptop go - will update with gen and processor etc shortly
Best,
Rowena

[yuntaz (Sakiko Togawa)]

There is an recent issue in Fedora 40 related to the CPU on the Surface Go. I think the issue has been resolved but cannot test it personally.

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[dariqq]

Hi,

I think you might be experiencing Fedora fails to boot after firmware update, freezes on Microsoft logo · Issue #1162 · linux-surface/linux-surface · GitHub.

There is a ticket for fedora here 2276695 – GRUB freezes when loading the kernel on Microsoft Surface.

In the comments of the issue there seems to be a workaround you could try though you’d need to adapt it for silverblue/kinoite.

[rowena12345678 (Nonya Biz)]

Thank You ! Can confirm that the above workaround was effective for fedora 40 on surface laptop go. Will try kionite later and drop a reply with results.

[rowena12345678 (Nonya Biz)]

Resolved, but In case anyone stumbles upon this: openSUSE installed with no issues