Fedora 42 install media doesn't boot in UEFI mode on MSI motherboard

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Hello, all; thank you in advance for your help!

I’ve encountered a bug similar to the issue reported here, but with the recent Fedora 42 release. (Which is the most recent version, at the time of writing.) I have been unable to boot into the install media with an MSI motherboard, and have tried the following troubleshooting steps:

  • Used both the Fedora Media Writer and manually downloaded the Fedora 42 ISO, and used the Disks utility to create the install media (unsuccessful)
  • Tried multiple USB devices (unsuccessful)
  • Tried to boot into install media for Linux Mint 23 (successful, but not intended outcome)
  • Was able to successfully boot into Fedora 42 install media on an older laptop (successful, but not intended outcome)
  • Disabled secure boot, fast boot, and updated the BIOS software (unsuccessful)
  • Created install media for Fedora 36 (as instructed here) and boot into that and upgrade (unsuccessful)

I’m largely out of ideas at this point, and any further guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your help!

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Its not a bleeding edge motherboard, which is good. It should work.

Have you booted any other system on that motherboard?

I would recommend using dd command to write your ISi, except your ISOs work on your old laptop.

Have you upgraded your BIOS on the MSI board recently?

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Fedora Media Writer does everything for you, it downloads the ISO, burns it, and checks if everything is OK…

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Used both the Fedora Media Writer and manually downloaded the Fedora 42 ISO, and used the Disks utility to create the install media (unsuccessful)

Sorry for the confusion–this is meant to represent three separate attempts:

  1. Used the Fedora Media Writer to download and create the boot media (unsuccessful)
  2. Downloaded the Fedora 42 ISO from the Fedora Project, and used Fedora Media Writer to create to boot media from the ISO itself (unsuccessful)
  3. Downloaded the Fedora 42 ISO from the Fedora Project, and used the Disks utility to create to boot media from the Fedora ISO (unsuccessful)

Unfortunately, I was unable to boot into the Fedora installation media in all three of these attempts. Thanks for your help!

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is there any error messages?

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Thanks for the reply!

Yes, I have been able to boot into Ubuntu (currently installed), as well as Linux Mint (both previously installed, and with an old copy of the boot media).

Additionally, I was able to upgrade the BIOS using the latest non-beta AMI BIOS file here. Unfortunately, I was unable to boot into the Fedora installation media in both cases.

I haven’t tried using the dd command–I’ll give that a shot, and see if it works. Appreciate your help!

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Issue has been resolved! Thank you all very much for your help!

For whatever reason, just setting the USB as the first boot priority wouldn’t work, and the next time I’d boot into the UEFI menu, it’d be moved back down to priority 2. For anyone who stumbles on this thread in three years, what worked for me was as follows:

  1. Make & insert the installation USB
  2. Enter into the UEFI interface
  3. Go into Settings > Boot > UEFI USB Key Drive BBS Properties
  4. Set the boot priority to partition 2 (to the best of my understanding, partition 1 is the actual installation files, and partition 2 is the "here are the digital instructions to install the files from partition 1).
  5. Save and reboot using whatever the UEFI hotkey is (for me, it was F10)

From there, I was able to boot into the GRUB menu, and install Fedora successfully.

Thank you all again for your help–much appreciated!