I had messed up the bios install

[nepti]

@Reyna_the_Fox

I have tried Ventoy as well. With Ventoy, I can boot, and then start booting the iso. I’ve used both “normal” and grub. in both ways, it gives a fatal error and crashes. Specifically, it says:

[OK] Reached target Remote File Systems
Starting dracut pre-mount hook…
6.930346 dracut: FATAL: one or more files are corupted. See /tmp/checksum.log for details
6.930599 dracut: Refusing to continue

Check whether this applies to you:

@filo

I’m having the same issue (unable to boot garuda-mokka-linux-zen-250308.iso, also using grub2 option, with Ventoy, latest release).
Actually, shortly before showing the black screen, the following dracut error is displayed (it is so quick that I had to try several times before being able to take a picture ).
The iso checksum is correct, of course (that’s the first thing I checked). It must be something else. And the same iso in a VM works.

@filo

Turns out, it was a PEBCAK for me​.
The checksum of the downloaded file was ok, but the one of the file on the USB was not.
So, there must have been an issue in the copy…
Grub2 mode works.