main: ISO fails to boot via Ventoy, installer hangs on black screen with cursor
Describe the package
I tried installing on a Surface Go 2. It currently has Fedora 38 beta which installed without issues.
When booting from ublue I receive an error before getting to a GUI or installation options.
dracut-initqueue: Unknown device: "/dev//run/install/repo//images/install.img": No such device
dracut-initqueue: Unknown device "/sys/": no such device
I’ve only tried booting from the main silverblue ISO
Image
Silverblue
About this issue
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- State: closed
- Created a year ago
- Reactions: 130
- Comments: 19 (10 by maintainers)
Hi, I am bumping this because I use Ventoy with all other .iso files and it works perfectly, so ideally this should too. Thank you.
Okay that is actually good news (for us, sorry about your specific case!)
It means we are just as bootable as the upstream ISO (you had me worrying there).
I will ping here after I have something to test. We’re going to patch the squashfs of the ISO and try to add the kickstart there. We hope that this will workaround the anaconda bug that is being triggered by Ventoy. (And we also hope this will let us add drivers to the installer as well)
This one boots to grub 🙌 I need to make a backup before I wipe the computer and install.
we’re still developing and testing this - so we are aware of it not working atm on real hardware
Sorry for not providing that earlier. I did some more testing last night and here’s what I found.
The main device I’m trying to install ublue on is a surface go 2. It only has UEFI and does not have a legacy boot option. I have disabled secure boot and set USB to be the first boot device. When I try to boot from a USB drive flashed with ublue it bypasses the USB like it’s not bootable. There’s not prompt to select it. If I try to load the boot menu it continues to boot from the first nvme drive. It boots ventoy without problems.
I tried with the same, non-ventoy USB device on my Lenovo x1 carbon (gen 7) last night and ublue installer boots just fine. It’s Also booting in UEFI mode and has secure boot enabled. The Ventoy drive doesn’t boot on the lenovo because it gets an error from secure boot.
When I booted the installer on my lenovo I saw the original error message in the output
but then it continued to boot so I’m guessing the error I’m getting stuck on with the surface go 2 is not the actual error and there’s something else happening. I’m going to try with other USB devices next week and see if any of them work. Do you know if ublue will load from a PXE server, that was my next idea if USB doesn’t work.
Ventoy probably won’t work at this time.
We need to do some “creative” writing to get that to work - keep an eye out for updates!
Thanks for testing and reporting back!
Thanks for your patience Justin, give this one a shot:
https://github.com/ublue-os/main/releases/tag/v1.1.7