Bazzite Installer Failing Repeatedly
Hello, I am having an issue getting bazzite to properly install. I recently had what I believe was some form of file corruption issue on my previous Bazzite install, and decided to just start fresh with the drives reformatted. However I cannot get the installer to finish, and any error codes it spits out are completely different each time. I believe I have had 1, 3, 6, and 11 that I can remember. I did read the documentation and saw that the an overheating USB could cause code 1, and while that could be the case here I have used multiple flash drives, including one that is nearly brand new, with similar results. I had a similar issue when I first installed bazzite around 2 weeks ago, and i think that time around I eventually just went with it when rebooting after one of the failures it had installed enough to boot into Bazzite or it eventually worked can't remember specifically. How could I go about resolving this issue?
Some Specs if it helps:
- Asus z690p Motherboard
- Intel i7-12700k CPU
- AMD Radeon 6700xt GPU
- 32gb Kingston DDR6 RAM
- 1 2TB Samsung NVME (Was formerly my windows C drive, and was the main drive for the last Bazzite install, 1 4TB WD Black NVME, 1 1TB Samsung Sata SSD, and 1 3TB HDD.
- Monitor is connected via DP
Some things I have already tried to fix the issue:
- Used multiple different USB flashdrives ranging from USB 2.0 to modern USB-C, using both the Fedora Media Writer and Rufus.
- Redownloaded and doublechecked the iso hash.
- I've tired different USB ports on the case and on the motherboard rear panel.
- I booted a Fedora live USB to check the disks with smartctl (ran a short self test on both the NVMEs and they came back clean), and btrfs check.
- I tried installing to either NVME and both still fail.
4 Replies
You can try installing fedora's kinoite (if you want bazzite) or silverblue (if you want bazzite-gnome), then rebasing to bazzite
Gave it a shot, couldn't get Kinoite's installer to work either. Tried it in a couple different ways, including DVD. All failed but at least the error report and point of failure in the installation is consistent now
I will be away from this computer for the next 3 days or so, so this will be the last thing I try for now. But if anyone has any ideas or can make sense of the error report feel free to post it.
I have to imagine this is some sort of screw up on my end at this point, maybe in the bios settings? Either that or some hardware is failing.
Most likely to me would be that the Samsung NVME is failing, only hiccups with that theory is that it fails when attempting to install on the WD drive too, and it seems unlikely to me the two drives would fail simultaneously, particularly when the latter is less than a year old.
I should perhaps try installing it to the SATA SSD or the HDD, the latter of which hasn't reformatted from NTFS yet either, so perhaps if was sort of progating error it wouldn't have reached it
I really hope 2 drives aren't failing, that would suck cost wise, though at least the data is backed up
Alright well for good measure I decided to try it a couple more times, first via usb again on the 2 non-nvme drives with the same result. Then as one last go I thought I'd try out one other drive through a case port instead of a motherboard port and then it worked
Well I rebased to Bazzite and while installing the default flatpaks I got another fsck content object error.
So I guess I will need to pull all the drives and test them