Live Session of Solus 4.5 KDE Not Starting on Dual Boot System

VertOurs

Hello everyone,

I have a dual boot setup with Windows 11/Linux Mint 21.3 on my machine. After trying out Solus in a VM, I decided to replace Linux Mint with Solus 4.5 KDE. When I boot from the live CD, I get three options (Solus, Solus for Nvidia, and Solus Debug), but no matter which option I choose, the live session does not start. Here are the logs that seem to be causing the problem :

[ 187.183266] solus dracut-initqueue[526]: Warning: dracut-initqueue: starting timeout scripts
[ 187.689544] solus dracut-initqueue[526]: Warning: dracut-initqueue: timeout, still waiting for following initqueue hooks:
[ 187.692064] solus dracut-initqueue[526]: Warning: /lib/dracut/hooks/initqueue/finished/devexists-\x2fdev\x2fdisk\x2fby-label\x2fSolusLivePlasma.sh: "[ -e "/dev/disk/by-label/SolusLivePlasma" ]"
[ 187.692064] solus dracut-initqueue[526]: Warning: /lib/dracut/hooks/initqueue/finished/devexists-\x2fdev\x2froot.sh: "[ -e "/dev/root" ]"
[ 187.698505] solus dracut-initqueue[526]: Warning: dracut-initqueue: starting timeout scripts
[ 188.202508] solus dracut-initqueue[526]: Warning: dracut-initqueue: timeout, still waiting for following initqueue hooks:
[ 188.204820] solus dracut-initqueue[526]: Warning: /lib/dracut/hooks/initqueue/finished/devexists-\x2fdev\x2fdisk\x2fby-label\x2fSolusLivePlasma.sh: "[ -e "/dev/disk/by-label/SolusLivePlasma" ]"
[ 188.204820] solus dracut-initqueue[526]: Warning: /lib/dracut/hooks/initqueue/finished/devexists-\x2fdev\x2froot.sh: "[ -e "/dev/root" ]"
[ 188.211245] solus dracut-initqueue[526]: Warning: dracut-initqueue: starting timeout scripts
[ 188.211245] solus dracut-initqueue[526]: Warning: Could not boot.
[ 188.236233] solus systemd[1]: Starting Dracut Emergency Shell...

Do you have any idea what the problem might be and how to solve it?

BuzzPCSOS

VertOurs Some theories worth a try.
Make sure that Windows 11 has been fully shut down and not entered into some form of hibernation to allow fast startup.
Enter bios and turn off fast startup and also secure boot.
Check the Solus iso against the checksum provided to make sure the downloaded copy you have is not corrupted (probably the best to try first)
Ideally boot from a USB that the iso has been written to using Etcher, Ventoy or Rufus. This is generally more reliable than using a disc.
Good luck.

VertOurs

Thanks for your reply, my ventoy key hadn't been updated for a long time, and it didn't pose any problems for booting on other OSlike mint or manjaro, but now that I've updated it solus boot correctly.
thanks again for your help

BuzzPCSOS

VertOurs Excellent news. Happy to help.
Welcome to Solus.