Steam OS Installation [Solved]

Operating Systems & Open Source
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[Before I start yes the hardware is or at least is supposed to be compatible]

I have looked at various videos online including Wendel's but none of them seem to have a fix for my problem.

I am trying to install steam OS onto a PC using a USB drive (I have tried the installer and the ISO file) It recognized that the USB drive is plugged in each time and i have set it as the main boot drive however every time it states that no boot-able device is detected.

I have had no luck all day. Can anyone lend a hand.

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How did you put the ISO on the USB?

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Just a disk imager

EDIT: [WIN32]

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Use Rufus

https://rufus.akeo.ie/

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I agree with @Eden
Trying with Rufus will probably work OK.

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OK OK making some progress mabe (I am interested to know what rufus did differently) but now i am juts looking as a screen saying "Verifying DMI Pool Data" and it is not proceeding.

BIOS isn't even seeing the USB drive now

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I have tried all of these: http://www.duxcw.com/faq/computer/dmi.html recommendations but still no luck

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Just out of interest, any reason for wanting SteamOS in particular? Steam as an application on any other distro is the same experience.

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Exactly, SteamOS is essentially a custom version of Debian supported by Valve and you'd get basically the same experience with Debian/Ubuntu with the added benefit that Debian and Ubuntu have much better support as they have a larger user base and are more mature systems as a whole.

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I was just going to set up an "in home streaming PC" and with a tiny form factor build i could use if for travel.

I have just tried an ubuntu install to and it also can't find it.

I have a windows pc which i took a drive out of and using that it will boot into windows repair mode so that eliminates a lot of things that could be wrong. (Obviously i am putting that back now and still need to find a solution)

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Verifying DMI Pool Data is usually I think because the PC is trying to boot off a drive with no bootable files but it is detecting the drive. I would say either the Boot USB you made has an issue with it or its trying to boot off the HDD your trying to install SteamOS to which currently has no OS on it.

I found some USB drives just do not like being used as a Boot Device properly so it may be worth trying a different USB or trying to boot from the USB you've made on a known working PC?

Also to go along with what @Zibob and @MichaelLindman have said SteamOS is just a custom version of Debian with some preinstalled packages for Steam (Which will be out of date anyway) and is set to Boot In Big Picture mode by default. Both of which you could install and setup on any other flavour of Linux which probably also has a more sanity checked and documented Install Process.

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Both the USB and the hard drive work in a different PC. There is clearly something wrong i am doing BIOS wise.

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@Vendetta Could you post Motherboard Model and maybe a screenshot of the Bios? May help us see where the issue is then in that case.

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the reason you couldnt find steam in ubuntu is because you have to enable the reestriced repo

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GOOD NEWS ***** BAD NEWS

Installing using a disk a burnt worked perfictly

On the downside the moment it finished installing (Sucsessfully) I got this...

IMAG0027.jpg2150x1216 850 KB

BUGGER

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Found this with a quick google: http://www.theouterhaven.net/2015/06/valve-releases-brewmaster-a-new-update-for-steamos/

Are you using an AMD GPU? It sounds like their is some issues according to the above if your using Steam OS with a AMD GPU?

Could also be a GNOME Issue I suppose, but an incompatibility with AMD GPUs would not surprise me from Valve....

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It is an issue with Gnome/xorg. How many monitors do you have plugged in? What GPU are you using?

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1 monetor with a RADEON 9550
(quite an old machine I am trying to put to use)

The steam of documentation stated AMD RADEON 8500 or above

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You might try and renaming your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. I know that Gnome/GDM will not like some setting in xorg.

Do you have onboard video enabled or any kind of capture card in the system?

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Ok problem solved.

There were no compatible drivers in order to run half of the hardware in the system for basically any Linux distribution. The most recent compatible drivers were for vista.

I Installed W7 and hacked together some old drivers and it is now up and streaming.

Thanks for all the help

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