I’m running into an issue trying to install Fedora (I’ve tried both Fedora 43 and Nobara 42) on my ASUS TUF Gaming F15 (2022). When I try to boot into the USB, I get a grub menu, with options to start Fedora, test the media then start it, or enter a troubleshooting state.
When I try to start or test the media and start, I get the error: …/…grub-core/kern/mm.c:552:out of memory error. If I try troubleshooting, I get a kernel panic with unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0). I found other threads, which focused on disabling CSM, and reducing video memory, however my BIOS utility doesn’t have either of those options. I’ve been able to boot into USBs before, I have EndeavourOS running on the laptop right now, but was hoping to make the hop over to a Fedora-based distro. I have not tried non-Fedora-based distros, that may be my next step to see if there’s something specific to the Fedora ecosystem that’s throwing a fit.
As for specs:
Intel i7-12700H
16GB of RAM
Nvidia GA106M (RTX3060 Mobile)
Does anyone have any tips that may work? Thank you for the help!
… My (strong) suspicion is that this motherboard series having a lot of on-board modules needs a lot of memory for them so it might be fragmenting it a way that the initramfs from the install media can’t be stored in a contiguous memory block. Also I think the Fedora install initramfs is bigger than other distros, hence no issues with Ubuntu for example. … (Nicolas Frayer)
Going with the theory that the reserved memory is fragmented, I’d first try another distro, and secondly the Everything network install (Miscellaneous Downloads | The Fedora Project) to see if that gets you any further. The idea is that it probably has a smaller footprint.
I find it hard to believe that the reserved memory is scattered in such a way that this happens, but that’s another story. Since you have EndeavourOS installed, you could easily check what the physical RAM map looks like with dmesg.
I appreciate that, I’ll give other distributions a shot, seeing if maybe there might be other families of distros that have this same issue. Thank you!
So, with attempting OpenSuse Tumbleweed and Linux Mint, both were able to boot from a USB just fine. I did give the Everything network installer, and that managed to boot as well. I’ll try installing it and seeing if it manages to complete successfully, but so far, it’s looking good, thank you!