Triquel 11.0.1 failing to boot on Lenovo Thinkpad E16 Gen1

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MattePinguino
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Hi.

I've recently downloaded Trisquel 11.0.1 and tried installing it on my Thinkpad, at first when booting from USB it displayed the GRUB menu correctly, but none of the entries worked, when I tried one it just displayed a blank screen (I suppose an error occurred since it stayed like that for 15 minutes). I've tried to use other parameters for GRUB entry (like nomodeset, noapic, and nodraid) but again with no luck.

Secure Boot is disabled, I checked the hash of the ISO in it corresponds with the one on the site. Is there something I forgot, or my specific Thinkpad model is not suitable for Trisquel?

System info:
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 21JT000CMZ v: ThinkPad E16 Gen 1
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 7730U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Barcelo vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-5 pcie: speed: 8 GT/s
lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:15e7
class-ID: 0300 temp: 55.0 C
Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 04f2:b7b4 class-ID: fe01 serial:

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Given how recent the hardware, I would try with Trisquel 12: https://devel.switnet.org/test-isos/trisquel_12.0.0_amd64.iso

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Ryzen GPU cards are not well supported without blobs.