Unable to access Bazzite installation.
This is a repost from the reddit page, but I feel it will get more conversation here.
A bit confused here, and I'm not sure what's going on.
I am trying to install Bazzite onto my main PC. I have gotten the same better with Rufus and Ventoy when selecting the ISO after booting on my flash drive. I have tried two flash drives and an SSD in a USB adapter. This is happening with both the KDE and Gnome installations. I also made sure to disable Fast start and Secure boot. The main boot drive was always my external flash drive.
I looked at the checksums and they did match, but I am starting to think the ISOs for desktop may be bad?
My PC specs:
CPU: 12700k
GPU: Arc B580 (I choose ARC+ ISO)
Mobo: Z790-I Asus Rog
32gb ram
Any ideas?
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CSM is disabled, right?
I checked and yep, CSM is disabled.
I'd try installing Fedora Kinoite or Silverblue and see if you have the same issue. If not once you have installed, rebase to Bazzite. The instructions to rebase to Bazzite are on the bazzite download page on the right.
Oh and one other thing. If you using a usb hub. Try plug the USB device directly into one of the usb ports. It sometimes makes a difference
Note that if you do that you will get a perfectly fine bazzite installation, it's fully supported
I tried this and got the exact same error on the fedora installation :shrug:
It flashes "error: ../../grub-core/kern/mm.c:552:out of memory" Then jumps to that Kernal panic screen. I can't access anything once panic pops up. I can only get out by shutting down the PC and rebooting.
I have plenty of storage on any of the SSDs and USBs I tried, and all installations have been through USB/USB adapter straight into the mobo
that error seems pretty common judging from a google search
is your bios in uefi mode? have you changed the video memory in bios? appparently both of these can lead to it
Yeah my BIOs has secure boot turned off, and I have not played with video memory. Although I have spent the last hour trying to find anything related to increasing system memory usage in ASUS ROG bios and can't find anything.
The only thing I found similar is Memory Remap which is enabled to allow it to use all RAM in system if something goes over 4gb.
At least we've eliminated the idea that there is an issue with the ISO.
I found this thread https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/grub-crashing-in-mm-c-when-trying-to-boot-fedora-39-live-usb/104614/11. Do you have an igpu? If so try reduce your video memory and see if it makes a difference in the install.
Oh I see cube already suggested that. Well hopefully it helps 🙂
I have already disabled my IGPU in the bios. my main gpu is set up to my PCEI lane.
And the only spot I've noticed I can change memory is Memory Remap. It has an enabled and disabled. Its enabled and allows the system to utilize more than 4gb of ram.
I simply have no clue.
Could it be that the mobo I am using just doesn't support Linux in any way? Asus Z790-I
Try something like Linux Mint or anything else that has a live USB and see if that boots. Then you can see if it's just Fedora that doesn't like your machine or Linux in general.
Something about the PC hates fedora. Linux mint works just fine.
I'll try to reinstall after mint is fully installed. Windows was a partition on the drive, but this formatted and installed Mint.
I don't think windows would've been a conflicted since I deleted all of it's boot keys?
Back. Even with mint installed, I still get the same two errors memory and kernel panic. Lmao
Ok so your machine hates something in Fedora. Or it just doesn't like the Anaconda installer. Maybe try Nobara
Or try Mint for a bit. It's a nice OS
Mounting issues are common with Ventoy. Latest ventoy fixed a mounting issue
Maybe try that?
I believe the issue is related to the size of the image
For some people it was fixed by lowering reserved video ram. You could try enabling the igpu temporarily and just set a low page. It could be some page size issue caused by a firmware bug.
Try booting with and without grub mode in ventoy too
It could help