Can't boot to Flash drive, won't even begin installing, hangs on bios splash screen

Some folks have had success using Ventoy to do the installation. Be sure to choose the “grub2” option when you are booting the ISO from Ventoy.


Another method which is maybe a little tricker but works great is using cat from the command line, as described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/USB_flash_installation_medium#Using_basic_command_line_utilities

Switch to a root shell:

sudo fish

(Or sudo bash works just as well).

Then target the ISO with cat, and redirect to your USB drive in /dev/disk/by-id.

cat path/to/iso > /dev/disk/by-id/usb-[whatever]

After you get to usb just press Tab to auto-complete; it should fill in with your Kingston device automatically.

Be sure to target the whole drive, not any specific partition. :backhand_index_pointing_down:

Run one of the following commands, replacing /dev/disk/by-id/usb-My_flash_drive with your drive, e.g. /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Kingston_DataTraveler_2.0_408D5C1654FDB471E98BED5C-0:0. (Do not append a partition number, so do not use something like /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Kingston_DataTraveler_2.0_408D5C1654FDB471E98BED5C-0:0-part1 or /dev/sdb1)

I hope that helps, welcome to the community @BalaDeSilver. :wave:

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