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Clevo Laptop doesnt boot any Linux USB sticks? partitions not found, fstab errors and all? (feddit.de)
submitted 1 year ago by Pantherina@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I am trying out a Clevo MZ41, pretty interesting machine. It is coreboot supported (Dasharo, in the future also Heads) which is exciting.

But I cant boot any live Linux? I tried Fedora Media writer and KDEs iso image writer. I tried Fedora KDE and KDE Neon (you see a trend haha) and also Ventoy.

These sticks normally always boot up, but here I get Dracut timeout, partition /root not found etc.

In the insydeH2O Bios I already disabled Secureboot entirely (not even needed, that Bios is awesome I can even deploy my own keys and all). Nothing changed.

Warning: /dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-KDE-Live-38-1-6 does not exist
Warning: /dev/root does not exist

... emergency mode ...

Anyone know whats going on here?

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My gut here is saying you have a mismatched combo of how Coreboot is treating these, and how they are written. From what I'm reading, Coreboot should support Legacy, UEFI, or SeaBIOS, so go set that in the BIOS setup, then make absolutely sure your disks are being written as such (NOT mbr). Ventoy should be the tool to use here for testing different distros out, so good on finding that.

[–] tun@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Ventoy USB can be created to work both in Legacy and UEFI. It is also very easy to add more distributions later.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have not yet Coreboot installed. Its the stock BIOS, I need to test that laptop before possibly bricking it ;D