Booting from USB: Kernel Panic! VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

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Heyo, with 44 I am finally over Ubuntu on my laptop. I downloaded Fedora Media Writer, prepared the usb stick to boot.

After booting my laptop from USB: Every try ended up with following error:

Kernel Panic! VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

Any help would be much appreciated.

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Which edition did you choose?

Give the Everything Netinstaller a try, and if that doesent help then we’ll dig deeper and see what we can do.

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So, I tried:

  1. to download ISO intel/amd & use Fedora Media Writer
  2. to use Fedora Media Writer to do both, download and create a bootable usb
  3. downloaded ISO & use Impression to make a bootable stick

all with the same result.

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There are different Editions and Spins of Fedora. The Editions are KDE plasma, and Gnome Workstation.
When you used Fedora Media Writer, and when you downloaded an ISO you picked one of these options.

Try using Media Writer to download and write the Everything Netinstall iso. You can use that and it will give you the option at install time to pick any desktop you want.

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Understood. Thank you. Downloading the Everything version atm.

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I tried the netinstaller too, it did not work. Got the same error as before.

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Could your harddrive be somehow locked, or some kind of secure boot enabled?

You have moved from Ubuntu, was Windoze present at all?

It could also be a problem with your USB stick, do you have another handy?

Another idea, as it is a kernel problem, can you try an F43 install that will come with a different kernel? Perhaps this one is not compatible with your hardware?

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Heyo, meanwhile I tried Fedora 43 as you suggested and it just don’t boot up at all. So I also tried any random distro - in this case MX Linux and it booted up without any problem(same laptop, same usb stick, Impression)

It might be some HW lock because this is a MS(boooooo) Surface Laptop 3 from 2019.

..CachyOS does not work either.