Cannot boot up LMDE6 ISO but ISO works in QEMU | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

clever mist Feb 5, 2025, 4:58 PM

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Instead of either booting LMDE6 iso on Ventoy or dd a USB key, I get this strange fatal message.
Yet that same ISO which is checksummed works perfectly in Qemu VM. I have nothing special going on in AMI UEFI settings. The PC runs Debian and LM faultlessly. Ventoy runs all my other distros. Any clues?

marble heath Feb 5, 2025, 5:02 PM

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from 2nd white ventoy screen, run a file checksum: sha256 right on the LMDE iso there. and compare to website listing.

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likely a bad write.

clever mist Feb 5, 2025, 9:15 PM

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WIll let you know how that goes. It's strange that the same ISO runs in Qemu, just syaing.

marble heath Feb 5, 2025, 9:17 PM

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well likely the vm is using iso on HDD

clever mist Feb 5, 2025, 9:18 PM

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marble heath well likely the vm is using iso on HDD

I simply copied it from the Ventoy drive. But I am doing this checksum now.

marble heath Feb 5, 2025, 9:18 PM

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yes from the 2nd white vtoy screen

clever mist Feb 5, 2025, 10:16 PM

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You were right, the checksum on Ventoy was a bad write. Thank you.
How do I mark this as solved?

#Cannot boot up LMDE6 ISO but ISO works in QEMU