Getting Stuck at Grub

Hi, i have no idea if it's my Rufus prefixs not or not, once i load the Bootable USB, I get loaded to Grub, then it tells me to write the kernel, found the filesystems and parition and where the kernel images are located and vmlinuz etc+ and write them, then boot it gets stuck at [OK] Finished systemd-vconsole-setup.service then just times out. I tried 2 different USBS, And even balenaetcher aswell tried many different rufus settings, i have secure boot disabled and USB Boot turned on. i'm using GPT UEFI and still nothing, i'm on a HP Pavillion gaming 15 Laptop

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:08 AM

try fedora media writer

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:08 AM

to flash the usb

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:08 AM

should just work then

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 3:08 AM

Sorry as i have NEVER installed a different OS other then windows, pretty sure it's an app and not fedora itself, right?

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 3:09 AM

And i'm on windows with a Nvidia GPU

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:09 AM

fedora media writer is a program like balena or rufus

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:10 AM

it does the same thing but it has the right defaults for bazzite

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:10 AM

if fedora media writer doesn't work u can troubleshoot from there but the first step is trying to flash the USB with fedora media writer instead of balena or rufus

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 3:11 AM

Problem is, i'm not on linux as it downloaded a .flatpakref and the tutorial on how to basically interact with it doesn't have windows listed, just linux distros.

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:11 AM

fedora media writer has a windows version

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 3:12 AM

and, i'm installing it for another device do i need to be in that device or does it just install it to the USB?

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:14 AM

you need a usb with the bazzite iso flashed to it

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:14 AM

and you should use fedora media writer to do this

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:14 AM

exact same thing you've been trying to do with rufus

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:15 AM

I recommend using the bazzite live iso if you aren't already

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 3:15 AM

i have the bazzite iso, and the USB-drive do i just download fedora and configure it?

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:15 AM

install fedora media writer

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:15 AM

plug in your usb

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:16 AM

open fedora media writer and use it to flash the bazzite iso to your USB stick

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 3:16 AM

i downloaded this pretty much i believe.

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:16 AM

yeah that's not the live iso but that's fine

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:17 AM

live iso is just a better install experience

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:17 AM

its right below the button u screenshotted

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 3:19 AM

hold on, i'm formatting my usb drive as it's still raw from all the other attempts

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 3:19 AM

(it was fat32, became raw the last time for some reason)

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:21 AM

it doesn't really matter

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:21 AM

but sure

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 3:27 AM

writing it

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 3:27 AM

because i was wondering why there was an virtual cd-rom now is because i wrote it in dd mode last time and now i can't remove it but i don't think it'll matter

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:29 AM

this is why rufus is a bad idea

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:29 AM

too many settings

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 3:40 AM

@bodyofbirds sorry for distrubing, but it's done, what now? do i try booting from it?

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:41 AM

uh huh

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 3:47 AM

wait, i thought it was done lmfao but thank god i didn't unplug it

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 3:47 AM

says there's an issue and it's prob damaged

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 3:47 AM

well, i don't have any other usbs

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 3:47 AM

i'll try the old one then

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 3:55 AM

got it on a new usb can 15gb work?

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:57 AM

I don't fully understand the question

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 3:57 AM

do u have another USB or don't u

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 4:13 AM

i have, i was wondering if the new one is big enough

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 4:13 AM

(it's 15gb)

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 4:14 AM

if its a problem then the live iso is smaller

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 4:14 AM

should be fine tho

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 4:17 AM

15gb is a weird size for a usb

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 4:17 AM

its probably 16

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 4:20 AM

it's 16, windows compresses things i know that i just didn't really care to mention rn

psxl_historicalOP•8/1/25, 4:21 AM

also, sorry for wasting your time but it's really late for me and i'll retry tmrw, all i have to do is just boot from it after fedora does it's thing right?

bodyofbirds•8/1/25, 4:22 AM

idk what else you would do with a bootable usb drive

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