I have been using fedora workstation for past 2 years, and now I want to use Fedora Silverblue because I’m highly interested about the good things it provides out of the box (toolbx, containerized apps, rpn-ostree).
Currently Fedora is the only OS I have on my laptop. And I want to completely remove everything and fresh install Fedora Silverblue. I already tried to create a bootable usb through both Fedora Media Writter and Balena Etcher, and install from this bootable USB. But every time I get error: error: …/…grub-core/kern/mm.c:552:out of memory And it never opens the live boot option to install.
I tried to google things and came accross to multiple discussion threads mentioning that I need to create a hardware probe ( Create a probe ), so I have created it and now it should be visible to others from this URL: HW probe of HP Pavilion Laptop 14-d... #bb6adf316f
I first tried to create the bootable usb using Fedora Media Writer but got this error, so then I tried Balena Etcher but same erro again.
I really want to use Fedora Silverblue but failing at installation. Kindly help me. Thanks.
Some things I can think off is this: did you use the same USB stick for the Media writer and Balena and did you use it both times on the same USB connection in the computer?
Is the stick okay, is the USB connection in the computer okay?
When you used the media writer did you let this program download the iso file?
From where did you download it when using Balena? Pls copy the URL here.
When I created the bootable USB using Fedora Media Writer, I let it download the iso and create the bootable USB. But when I used Balena Etcher I downloaded the iso from https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/silverblue/download and after downloading I checked the checksum and it was correct.
I used the same USB on the same port (laptop port).
From laptop’s UEFI boot menu the USB (and the Fedora) is displayed and I select it and then I get the error I mentioned.
How do I know (or test) if the USB is okay? In the same port, other times, I use my wireless mouse, so I assume that the laptop port is okay because it is able to perfectly run the wireless mouse.
How do I use the dd command to write into the USB? (I never did this)
Is there any documentation that I can read for this? What is the proper way to do it for fedora?
Could you please point me to documentation (or other rsources) to install? I only need help until I can have access to live version of the fedora. Once I have it, from there I can manage it on my own.
I’m stuck on making the live fedora silverblue available.
Okay, so the download was either done by the media writer, or from the Fedora website with a check to see if the download was okay. Perfect.
When you use the wireless mouse on the same laptop port and have no issues with it then yes, you can assume the port is okay. It’s not 100% certain but when you have no other port available then you have no other choice.
The usb stick, when using the media writer, gets new partitions and is formatted with the correct filesystems, so not much can go wrong with that, except when the chip inside is malfunctioning. I assume Balena Etcher does the same but I have no experiences with it.
As @theprogram suggested you can also use the dd command. For that you need to know where the downloaded ISO file is located (full path and file name) and you need to know the device name of the USB stick.
The ISO is probably located at /home/<your username>/Downloads/name of file.iso.
To see the name of the USB you need to do this:
Open the filemanager and enter the directory /dev. In there scroll down till you see items starting with the letter s. Then place the stick into the USB port and look at which device is added, something like sda, sdb, depending on how many sd* devices you already have in your computer. Whatever you do: Don't mount the stick, in other words don't open it by clicking on it, for example in the file manager.
Open a terminal and type: dd if=/home/<your username>/Downloads/name of file.iso of=/dev/sd* (*=a, b, c whichever was added when you placed the stick into the computer. Before and after the '=' sign there will be no spaces.
There is currently no official Atomic Desktops Live (or Anaconda WebUI) ISO, so you will need to make any desired partitioning as described in the above documents.
Whether there is any real benefit to TPM and/or Secure Boot is another story, but as suggested in the previous post, I personally recommend disabling all of that stuff from your machine’s BIOS settings when using Fedora Silverblue.
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