Why all this text appear after the UEFI?

Some nights ago, I was installing programs (vlc, dolphin emu, virtual-box) via the software manager, along with trying to get a ps5 controller to bluetooth connect to the computer without a cable. These basically appear regardless of weather I'm trying to get into the install on my NVME ssd, or a live USB. *Would running 'boot repair' from a live USB of Mint 21.3 cinnamon have any negative effects?*


dlf@dlf:~$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:
  Kernel: 6.5.0-18-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
    Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
    Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: TUF GAMING B650-PLUS WIFI v: Rev 1.xx
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1807
    date: 09/26/2023
Battery:
  Device-1: ps-controller-battery-7c:66:ef:37:d7:01 model: N/A serial: N/A
    charge: N/A status: Charging
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled
    arch: Zen 3 rev: 2 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 96 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3590 high: 4912 min/max: 400/5050 cores: 1: 3575
    2: 3444 3: 3763 4: 4903 5: 4768 6: 400 7: 4244 8: 400 9: 3649 10: 3972
    11: 3420 12: 4912 13: 3875 14: 4153 15: 4711 16: 3259 bogomips: 134137
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD vendor: Sapphire driver: N/A pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:747e class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: AMD vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 0d:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164e class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: ati,vesa
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon gpu: N/A display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x2160 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x572mm (40.0x22.5")
    s-diag: 1166mm (45.9")
  Monitor-1: default res: 3840x2160 hz: 88 size: N/A
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7 256 bits)
    v: 4.5 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab30 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0d:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0d:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-4: Sony Wireless Controller type: USB
    driver: playstation,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-7:8 chip-ID: 054c:0ce6
    class-ID: 0300
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.5.0-18-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel
    pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek vendor: AzureWave driver: rtw89_8852be v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: c000 bus-ID: 0a:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b852
    class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp10s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-3: Sony Wireless Controller type: USB
    driver: playstation,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-7:8 chip-ID: 054c:0ce6
    class-ID: 0300
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: IMC Networks Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-5:2 chip-ID: 13d3:3571 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>
    bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.2 sub-v: 91cb hci-v: 5.2 rev: dfb7
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 17.28 TiB used: 13.11 TiB (75.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO 2TB size: 1.82 TiB
    speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 5B2QGXA7
    temp: 30.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: SSD PLUS 1000GB
    size: 931.51 GiB type: SSD serial: <filter> scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Seagate model: ST16000NM001G-2KK103
    size: 14.55 TiB type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 1.79 TiB used: 55.63 GiB (3.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1
    mapped: vgmint-root
  ID-2: /boot size: 1.61 GiB used: 324.2 MiB (19.7%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 976 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/dm-2 mapped: vgmint-swap_1
Sensors:
  Message: No sensor data found. Is lm-sensors configured?
Repos:
  Packages: apt: 2671
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jonaski-strawberry-jammy.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/jonaski-strawberry-jammy.gpg] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/jonaski/strawberry/ubuntu jammy main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com virginia main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://ftp.usf.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://ftp.usf.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://ftp.usf.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main
Info:
  Processes: 416 Uptime: 2d 16h 37m wakeups: 1 Memory: 30.55 GiB
  used: 11.75 GiB (38.5%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
  gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.13

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING B650-PLUS WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory
Storage: Samsung 980 Pro w/Heatsink 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
Video Card: Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB Video Card
Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: Corsair RM750x (2021) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

/etc/default/grub

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"





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It seems youve encrypted your disk.

Just input your key into the prompt and it should all be fine.

I usually dont recommemd encrypting your root fs, if you insist, id advise you to ensure the kernel amd initramfs are loaded from a seperate, unencrypted partition.

I know virtual-box loads a kernel module and usually you end up seeing this on Linux desktops when something is wrong with the kernel.

Is there some reason you’re not using Linux KVM instead of virtual box? I think it’s more lightweight and there is still a GUI…