Blank screen when booting from USB

The desktop installer doesn’t support Nvidia hardware out the box. Here is how to make it work.

First, boot the live-server installer media, press ‘e’ to edit the command line and add: modprobe.blacklist=nouveau to the end of the command line.

Install Clear using the ncurses-based installer.

When your system reboots, you’ll have to edit the command line again by pressing e at boot, and adding modprobe.blacklist=nouveau to the command line.

Then, make the modprobe change permanent using clr-boot-manager:

echo "modprobe.blacklist=nouveau" > /etc/kernel/cmdline.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf 
sudo clr-boot-manager update

Next, install the NVIDIA drivers. I used the scripts found here to automate that process: awesome-clear-linux/NVIDIA-Driver at master · lebensterben/awesome-clear-linux · GitHub
If you would prefer to configure the drivers manually, this article can help you:
https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/tutorials/nvidia.html

After those steps, you should be able to install and run the desktop:

sudo swupd bundle-add desktop-autostart

Hope this helps!

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