Complete beginner, need help with installation troubles
Hello, I'm coming from Windows, and picked Bazzite as my first foray into Linux.
I'm trying to set up dual-boot, I have Win 11 installed on my first (1TB) SSD, and would like to install Bazzite on my second (2TB) SSD.
I've just downloaded (~4 hours ago) my flavor of Bazzite (KDE, Desktop/Nvidia) from the website and wrote the image file onto a 16GB thumb drive using Rufus. I've generally followed the installation guide closely, made sure CSM is disabled in the BIOS, as instructed. When I try to boot into the installer, however, a few services fail to start, and nothing further happens. As such, I haven't even reached the installer GUI yet.
I've tried googling the issue, looked through the installation troubleshooting section of the website and a couple subreddits as well as the help posts here, but can't quite find anything to help me out.
So far, in an attempt to fix things as far as I'm comfortable with, I've re-written the image to the drive, even set up Ventoy and tried booting from there, same result. The Fedora Media Writer aborts with an error, telling me the drive can't be written to. Rufus seems to work fine, however.
Here's my hardware, in case that's relevant to the issue:
- AMD R3 3600X
- MSI B450m Mortar Max
- 16GB DDR4 3600
- Nvidia RTX 3070
- 2 Samsung NVME drives, 1TB (Win 11) and 2TB
- 2 1080p monitors
- Focusrite Scarlett Solo 4 USB audio interface
- Internet via Ethernet
I've added an image of where I get stuck. I appreciate any help or pointers!
Update: I've tried the "safe graphics" (or similar) installation from the troubleshoot option, same result.
I'm trying to set up dual-boot, I have Win 11 installed on my first (1TB) SSD, and would like to install Bazzite on my second (2TB) SSD.
I've just downloaded (~4 hours ago) my flavor of Bazzite (KDE, Desktop/Nvidia) from the website and wrote the image file onto a 16GB thumb drive using Rufus. I've generally followed the installation guide closely, made sure CSM is disabled in the BIOS, as instructed. When I try to boot into the installer, however, a few services fail to start, and nothing further happens. As such, I haven't even reached the installer GUI yet.
I've tried googling the issue, looked through the installation troubleshooting section of the website and a couple subreddits as well as the help posts here, but can't quite find anything to help me out.
So far, in an attempt to fix things as far as I'm comfortable with, I've re-written the image to the drive, even set up Ventoy and tried booting from there, same result. The Fedora Media Writer aborts with an error, telling me the drive can't be written to. Rufus seems to work fine, however.
Here's my hardware, in case that's relevant to the issue:
- AMD R3 3600X
- MSI B450m Mortar Max
- 16GB DDR4 3600
- Nvidia RTX 3070
- 2 Samsung NVME drives, 1TB (Win 11) and 2TB
- 2 1080p monitors
- Focusrite Scarlett Solo 4 USB audio interface
- Internet via Ethernet
I've added an image of where I get stuck. I appreciate any help or pointers!
Update: I've tried the "safe graphics" (or similar) installation from the troubleshoot option, same result.
Solution
One of the logs showed something about bluetooth, so I just removed the wireless adapters for my mouse and the xbox wireless dongle, and now I'm in the language selection screen
