Problem when booting into live image

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I’ve been trying to distro hop to Fedora but whenever I boot into the Fedora Workstation 39 live image I get this:

Invalid image
Failed to read header: Unsupported
Failed to load image: Unsupported
start_image() returned Unsupported

I know that I installed it correctly, trust me, I have distro hopped a LOT.

2

Did you confirm the iso image was valid by checksum after downloading it and before burning it to the usb?

Also, are you using uefi or legacy boot?

3

I did the checksum thing on the iso and it turned out good and I’m using uefi.

4

If the iso was valid then there may have been an error in writing that image to the usb device for booting.
How was the image written? Precise please.

I would use imagewriter to write the iso to usb, or I would use dd to write the iso to usb.

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I install the Fedora Image writer, click the first option that’s like automatic installing, then official versions, Fedora Workstation, version 39, 64 bit Intel/AMD, my USB drive and press save and type in my password and it writes. I even tried installing the plain ISO image off of the Fedora website and using a different writer to write it like any other distro.

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I sometimes see problems when writing the USB while downloading from the website with mediawriter, but have never had a problem with downloading the iso then using mediawriter to burn the image to the usb device.

Nor have I had issues using balena etcher or rufus or dd to write the image to the usb device. The only times I have had issues was with writing the usb while downloading from the online server with mediawriter.

Note that fedora usually automatically mounts the usb device when it is connected. It is critical that you always make certain the device is not mounted before beginning to write to it.
If the device has a partition mounted as shown with the mount command then it should be dismounted with (mine usually mounts as /dev/sde1, or similar – use what yours shows) sudo umount /dev/sde? which should unmount all partitions on that device then the image should cleanly write to that device.

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Hello @patroskowinski ,
Can you please retry using Fedora Media writer to create the image? You can also use it to create an image from the Fedora installer you downloaded. But only if you’re convinced the image is actually at fault here. Please see this post F37 Invalid image error while booting