Writing ISO to Usb no boot

Jason5

I downloaded Solus Budgie 4.4 and installed using the steps given in Support section.

The iso is verified and no issues. It gets installed in USB and when I boot using the USB it says “Image not Found”. Failed to boot

I tried the same step with another usb stick still the same

WetGeek

Jason5 It gets installed in USB

I'm not sure how you're trying to install the system. When you say, "it gets installed in USB," are you saying that you're writing the .ISO file you downloaded to a USB drive? And are you then mounting that USB drive into a USB port on your computer in order to install Budgie? Or do you mean something else?

If this is what you're doing, what operating system is now on the computer you're trying to install Budgie on? Windows? A different Linux distribution? And what application are you using to write the .ISO file to the USB drive? Your answers will help someone to help you.

Jason5

I am apologize for the terms I used.

When you say, "it gets installed in USB," are you saying that you're writing the .ISO file you downloaded to a USB drive? And are you then mounting that USB drive into a USB port on your computer in order to install Budgie? Or do you mean something else?

Yes I written the ISO file using Multi Writer as I normally do for every ISO, and trying to boot it. Currently I am using Solus budgie 4.4 and wanted to do a fresh install.

The exact error message is

Invalid Image
Failed to read Header: Unsupported
Failed to load Image: Unsupported
Start_image() returned Unsupported

WetGeek

Jason5 Yes I written the ISO file using Multi Writer as I normally do for every ISO

Hmmm ... I asked for more details, because without knowing, I thought you might just be copying the file to the USB drive, and I didn't know whether you were trying to boot the "live" session or the installed OS.

I've used multiwriter successfully in the past, but there are other good options. What I now use most of the time is Balena Etcher. Etcher is available in the Solus repository, and it's trivial to use. You just select the .ISO file and select what device you want it written to, and then provide your password for sudo. Perhaps your copy of multiwriter has become corrupted somehow? Maybe a flawed update?

One thing to be aware of is that the password dialog may appear behind the Etcher window, so you may need to move the small Etcher window out of the way in order to enter your password and allow Etcher to continue. It does that on my Plasma laptop, but that might not happen with Budgie. I thought I'd mention it, just in case it does.

If using a different tool to write the .ISO to your USB drive doesn't solve the problem, then I'm out of ideas. I've never created a Solus USB drive with Etcher that wouldn't boot, though.

Jason5

WetGeek I will give it a try, I wrote Solus 4.3 using ISO Image writer as well as Multi writer and had no issues at all.

Hope Etcher fix the issue for me.

Jason5

Jason5 still the same, i can write other OS without any issue and it boots too.

But Solus booting throws the same error

WetGeek

Jason5

Then the most reasonable cause is that the Solus Budgie .ISO file is corrupted, perhaps by a download that didn't quite work as it should. If I were you, I'd download another copy from https://getsol.us and install that new copy to your USB drive and try again.

There's also the slight possibility that your USB drive is defective, but that's unlikely. Did you let Etcher verify the copy you made? If you did, and the verification passed, that's a pretty good indication that the .ISO file itself is corrupted. The verification process just reads back what it wrote and compares it with the file it was told to write.

WetGeek

amichai I am having the exact same issue with trying to install Solus Budgie.

Jason5 still the same, i can write other OS without any issue and it boots too.

I'm running out of ideas, folks. I'm hoping someone might have some other ideas to suggest.

I downloaded the current .ISO files without a problem using Vivaldi, installed Plasma on five computers here (my laptop, my wife's laptop, our little travel laptop, my development workstation, and my torrent server), and had no issues with any of those.

And I've used the same .ISOs to create five VMs, including Budgie, GNOME, MATE, Plasma, and a Budgie VM that I converted to Xfce. There was never a problem with any of those.

Bottom line is that I can't reproduce this behavior, and can't think of any other reason why it might be happening. I can only hope that someone else is able to help.

Jason5

WetGeek Yes I downloaded a fresh copy and tried it in a new USB as well.

As you said the verification passed instead of reading back, maybe the ISO is corrupted? Sorry I maybe wrong

Anyone else can check and update?

amichai

I am having the exact same issue with trying to install Solus Budgie.

First attempt: Used Etcher to write the ISO to the USB drive. Secure Boot disabled. Verified shasum, did the usual things I've done to install a distro.

Second attempt: Redownloaded files. Doublechecked signature and shasum. Used Gnome MultiWriter. Tried enabling and disabling Secure Boot in case that was somehow the issue, even though the error message seemed unrelated.

Third attempt underway, using the torrent download and the command line option for writing to the USB (as explained in the quickstart guide at getsol.us). Same result.

Finally tried to download etc the Plasma edition to see if that works and it's just something weird with Budgie, but no -- still getting

Invalid Image
Failed to read Header: Unsupported
Failed to load Image: Unsupported
Start_image() returned Unsupported

So at this point I'm not sure what to do to troubleshoot, other than write some different distro ISO to the stick and make sure it's not a problem with my hardware.

Jason5

WetGeek You downloaded the Solus 4.4 budgies today and tried? Is it related to old motherboards?

WetGeek

Jason5 You downloaded the Solus 4.4 budgies today and tried?

Not today, no. But I have no reason to believe that they were changed recently. I follow the Matrix conversations by the Solus team, because I'm learning to be a package maintainer, and I've heard no such chatter.

I'm not sure about the old motherboards, but I suppose that's a possibility. At the very least, it does sound like a local problem, because there are thousands of people who've downloaded and installed Solus Budgie, presumably without an issue like this.

Are you currently running Budgie 4.3 on your computer? Do you realize that if you've updated it regularly, you're already on 4.4?

murbert

Ventoy

Once Ventoy is installed there is no need to "write" to disk. Simply copy ISO files to the usb and profit

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murbert I think I also installed this time with Ventoy. The problem is that not always/not for all it works with each Ventoy setup/setup try.

BTW, and this is not a recommendation but just something I think I used,
I personally chose to later exFAT format it (Ventoy partition - the place you put bootable ISO in for booting, and BTW also chose so for the other, optional, storage partion I added, for some reason,) before I added the image, and probably it was GPT (and secure boot support) this time and not MBR, too (as using UEFI and GPT) though unsure, but each with one's own choices and style and for each one it might work different. For some it doesn't work.

On Linux, if it doesn't work or if people chose other way, they may use Gnome Multiwriter (this might be limited to up to 32GB USB keys though) or dd but as instructed on the help center, or in any other declared supported app/software mentioned there. https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/quick-start/installation/#usb

Some said etcher works as well and I think I "tested" it myself recently. (Yes I installed twice recently for some reasons. A fast app, at least usually in my experience works (no promise), I like it, but yes, I like Ventoy which has some nice benefits and which I find to be very useful for many purposes and also recycling/easily updating ISO versions in the way murbert said by just replacing a file.)

brent

[deleted] I think I also installed this time with Ventoy. The problem is that not always/not for all it works with each Ventoy setup/setup try.

You are correct. I tried a lot of bare metal distros since January and always 1 out 10 needed to be burned on to USB. But that's still a 90% success rate for Ventoy....including Solus Budgie which I reinstalled recently. @murbert is right, this will cure his problem.
It won't solve the mystery of the Wiggy Hardware but it will let him install Solus.
............maybe he will need to setup the Ventoy program on a different USB though😉.
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Axios

What is your hardware?
Its not a bad iso I think its telling you it doesnt like something about your setup
Maybe crappy usb (try another)

Axios

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/invalid-image-bios-fails-to-load-image-from-bootable-usb/76717

brent

Axios the intersections where uefi, legacy, secure boot, MBR, and BIOS all meet is often unpassable in the wrong configuration---any single mismatch of those would have also caused OP's problem. Good reading.

Axios

brent I use rufus on winders if I burn it one way it will only boot to legacy I think
and if I burn it another it will boot both.
Sometimes alittle slow because of the detection time.
But it works pops up with screen if you have a mismatch...lol

bleh

I ran into this problem twice, it could simply be an outdated bios, that's what my computer has. If the hardware is fine(run diagnostics and whatnot), check the bios settings, don't know if it's on the installer's end or the specific bios, but sometimes you need to manually direct the bios to the solus boot directory.