Stuck on fresh installation

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Hey guys, I’ve ran into an issue installing Garuda Dragonized Gaming Edition on a laptop. I flashed my drive, disabled secureboot, loaded into installation and no matter which option I chose (open source drivers or Nvidia) I get

dracut Warning: Could not boot
GARUDA_…_RAPTOR does not exist

And then it drops to debug shell after waiting for aprox. 3-4 mins on

Starting systems-udevd…

What could be the problem? Should I switch to discrete or integrated graphics in uefi in order to complete installation or is there other problem that persists?
P.S. This is my first time installing a Linux OS on a laptop.

Laptop Model Number: 82JW00F9PB

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Hola friend !

I want you to do these steps and see if issue is resolved.

1.Download the latest Garuda iso once again .

2.Verify checksum of iso.

4.Format the usb drive as fat32.

Use Rufus , balena to create the live media.

See if this solves it.

Because it seems that the iso or installation got corrupted somehow.

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Alright, will do.
I used rufus and then switched to balena cause I saw other tutorial video of installation that showed it.
Also, what if I didn’t format drive as fat32 at first, could that be the problem?
Does rufus/balena format the drive automatically from ntfs to fat32?
I’m sorry if I ask too many questions, it’s just really interesting and I’m genuinely curious cause I want to make it work and switch to Garuda :smiley:

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Nah formatting to fat32 isn’t necessary but try that as a precaution if the drive’s partition table got messed somehow.

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Did you try the latest iso ?

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Yes, I downloaded the latest Dragonized Gaming Edition.

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Ok then try the steps and tell me if it works.

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Downloaded .iso, checked sum sha256, checksum is the same, flashed, chose NVIDIA drivers this time and same thing, I waited a couple minutes on

Starting systems-udevd version 254.5-1-arch

And got the same thing.

dracut Warning: /dev/disk/by-label/GARUDA_DR460NIZEDGAMING_RAPTOR does not exist

I’m confused…

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Hi @w1ldac3 , Please DISABLE secureboot and fast boot if it is enabled

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Am I understanding correctly fastboot is in the OS settings?
Also I did disable secureboot, otherwise it wouldn’t even let me boot into my live drive.

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Nevermind, I searched on the net that it’s supposed to be in UEFI/BIOS, but, looking at my UEFI right now, I don’t see any option that resembles fastboot.

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One thing you could do is to try Ventoy to burn your USB.
Since with Ventoy you simply drang&drop / copy&paste as many iso on the USB as you like, you could download also the Dr460nized (non-gaming) edition.
If it works, from there, there is a tool to install all the gaming stuff you need.

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Try a different usb device or post a complete photo of your BIOS settings privately to me.

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Yeah, Gaming Edition just doesn’t want to install for me (tried normal and grub2 in Ventoy), going to download regular Dragonized now and try it.

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Just use the normal edition and install what you need through the assistant and Garuda Welcome .

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Alright, so, after trying regular Dragonized and getting the same error, I came to conclusion to just buy another USB drive.

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One in the BIOS, another in Windows. Search on posts by @BluishHumility. One has a screenshot of the fastboot settings available via Windows Control Panel. :slight_smile:

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I don’t have any option that resembles fastboot in bios, only instant boot which is disabled by default. Let me try disabling fast load in windows then…

UPD: Didn’t change a thing.

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I have a link now actually, check it out:

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Yeah, I did that, it didn’t change a thing. I ordered new usb drive and gonna try once again when it comes.
Thanks a lot everybody for your help!