Unable to install bazzite on the rog ally x, unicode error
Hello! Today i was trying to install bazzite on my rog ally x, i tried both using a usb drive with rufus and flashing it that way and i also tried using ventoy and booted into bazzite from there. In both cases, after a few seconds an error shows up on the screen saying: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xdf in position 0: unexpected end of data. I used 3 different usb drives, and the same error shows up, i'll also try to attach photos with what is going on
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you are the first one with that issue ever
damn
seems like one of your disks has a funny name
wdym?
i dont know but it doesnt like something either about your sd card, ssd, or usb drive
remove your sd card and if you dont need windows nuke your drive
and then it should work
well i dont even reach that part where i can nuke the windows
it goes straight here
did you repartition your drive or something?
change labels?
regarding the windows partition yes
but it works fine
and for bazzite i dont even get the installer
time to go back and change them to latin names
then it will work
latin names?
english characters
i didnt rename them
did you touch your drive with partition manager?
do you want to keep windows?
yes
what did you do to it
not necessarly
i shrunk it
nothing else?
no
what brand is your usb drive
do you have an sd card?
kingston, another sony one and one that just says team
no
i can tell you how to wipe the drive
I cant guarantee you it will work after
i can wipe it clean if that would work
i know how
but it's still weird
it doesnt like something in one of the drives
i dont know what
if you want to wipe it
alt + ctrl + f5
then sudo cfdisk /dev/nvme0n1it doesnt let me type anything
i'll do it with something else
brb
i have a ventoy drive with hbcd
i assume it's ok with that?
im ok
it booted as normal with a clean drive
i'm in the installer rn
it installed just fine, i'm in
thanks
np