Install issue with ASuS ROG Zephyrus GX703HS-XB99 laptop.
Problem upfront: during the install I received an error stating "boot loader failed to install".
The setup:
- ASUS GX703HS-XB99 laptop. It has/had three Samsung SSDs setup in RAID0.
- went into the UEFI, disable:
- FASTBOOT
- SECURE BOOT
- DELETED THE RAID0 SETUP
- A brand new Crucial T705 2TB SSD that I tried to perform the install on.
- two separate portable 1TB hard drives with USB 2.0
- one 32GB thumb drive
The process:
- Backed up everything I wanted onto a NAT. Data is safe and cozy.
- installed Rufus and later Fedora Media Write to put the Bazzite-nvidia-open-stable-amd64 on a portable hard drive.
- after the first failure, on another laptop, did the process of turning the portable hard drive into an install drive and tried again - same failure.
- third time, swapped to the 2TB single SSD, then on the second computer delete the iso copy and redownload the file from the Bazzite website. Now I tried my second portable hard drive using Fedora Media Write. Failed again.
- fourth try, got the little 32Gb thumb drive and used Fedora Media Write. I verified the write before the install and it was Satisfactory. Install failed!
- each time I perform the install I would, change the time, delete partitions from the previous install, unchecked wanting to create a password. Laptop was hooked up to charger. I said a prayer with my cat
- after this last failure, I swapped the basic ISO to the LIVE version and instead of trying to install I consulted Claudia AI to help me verify that the EFI was infact loaded by sudo mnt/.../.../...efi/EFI. Dug around some more and everything looks okay.
One thing I would like to note: the failed install on the original Samsung SSDs would boot me to GRUB whereas the Crucial SSD would just boot me into UEFI after the failed install.
OH! I also tried hooking up the drives into different ports to see if it was a port issue.
My next step is to try a brand new and larger thumb drive.
The setup:
- ASUS GX703HS-XB99 laptop. It has/had three Samsung SSDs setup in RAID0.
- went into the UEFI, disable:
- FASTBOOT
- SECURE BOOT
- DELETED THE RAID0 SETUP
- A brand new Crucial T705 2TB SSD that I tried to perform the install on.
- two separate portable 1TB hard drives with USB 2.0
- one 32GB thumb drive
The process:
- Backed up everything I wanted onto a NAT. Data is safe and cozy.
- installed Rufus and later Fedora Media Write to put the Bazzite-nvidia-open-stable-amd64 on a portable hard drive.
- after the first failure, on another laptop, did the process of turning the portable hard drive into an install drive and tried again - same failure.
- third time, swapped to the 2TB single SSD, then on the second computer delete the iso copy and redownload the file from the Bazzite website. Now I tried my second portable hard drive using Fedora Media Write. Failed again.
- fourth try, got the little 32Gb thumb drive and used Fedora Media Write. I verified the write before the install and it was Satisfactory. Install failed!
- each time I perform the install I would, change the time, delete partitions from the previous install, unchecked wanting to create a password. Laptop was hooked up to charger. I said a prayer with my cat
- after this last failure, I swapped the basic ISO to the LIVE version and instead of trying to install I consulted Claudia AI to help me verify that the EFI was infact loaded by sudo mnt/.../.../...efi/EFI. Dug around some more and everything looks okay.
One thing I would like to note: the failed install on the original Samsung SSDs would boot me to GRUB whereas the Crucial SSD would just boot me into UEFI after the failed install.
OH! I also tried hooking up the drives into different ports to see if it was a port issue.
My next step is to try a brand new and larger thumb drive.
