Everytime I boot the usb stick and select start Fedora Live I get the error "Ignoring BGRT: invalid satus 0 (expected 1)
Idm_parse_tocblock (): cannot find TOCBLOCK, database may be corrupt." Please help as I cannot find any help online.
have you tried installing/livebooting through CD or DVD personlay I have never had problems with CD and DVD but I have a lot of problems with usb. Also it could just be a bad image you might want to try re downloading but I would try DVD/CD.
As @shadowvengence22 recommended, verify that the image is valid and maybe give the system a stern talking to? (my computer doesn't respond well to physical disciplinary actions, so I'd recommend not trying anything past verbal)
About the Idm_parse_tocblock (): cannot find TOCBLOCK, database may be corrupt errors:
Do you have Windows installed on any of the drives? If so, do you have an "extended disk" setup on your windows system? That can cause issues with some Linux distributions.
Ignoring BGRT: invalid satus 0
This can be sometimes fixed by adding nomodeset to the kernel command line. (the string of text at the bottom of the screen when you've got the options to "start fedora live" and whatever else.
Hope this helps!
Thank you everyone for the help, I will try everything suggested and report back!
Use rufus to write fedora image to usb. works much better than other options.
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IIRC Fedora is kinda sensitive to what kind of software you use to write the ISO into the USB. You need to use something called Universal Image writer something, I'm not with my machine to check now, can't help much.
Personally use universal usb installer, never had issues.
@Steven_Lain @RazorLR1 Simply use dd to write the image. I don't know if dd is available on Fedora but on my Ubuntu machine I use this command all the time to write images and it never failed. Just make sure the USB device has only a single partition on it. Multiple partitions on the device can mess up the process - so basically format the device before using dd.
Then simply execute:
sudo dd of=/dev/sdX if=path/to/my/image.iso bs=4096
NOTE: Replace sdX with the real device file of your USB device - don't use e.g. sdb1 but sdb. The path to the image file can be relative. If you have your image in your Downloads folder, simply cd to it and then use if=mycoolimage.iso in dd. Also note, that it can take a while (several minutes) for dd to write the image - depending on USB connection, performance of the computer and size of the image file.
I'm using Win32Disk Imager as the tool to write into USB and it works for me.
On windows? That thing is really good. I used it to write my first images back when I was starting to use Linux and primarily had Windows. Just saying: On Linux, there is no need to install anything. The ready-to-use USB drive is just one CLI command away.
Thank you all for the help! I ended up writing it to a disk and it worked just fine over the usb. Now that it's installed everything is great.
Awesome.
I found if i'm writing an ISO to USB on Windows I always use rufus, others have given me issues int he past.
Fyi, if you have nvidia i recommend negativo17 for the binary drivers if you need them.