bloodfart ,

Ventoy is great! Except that it doesn’t fucking work!

Just write your iso to a normal little usb with sd or whatever the distro recommends.

My ventoy keyring has a few extra usbs on it for this exact problem. I just boot something that will work with ventoy and use dd to make one of the extras into whatever it needs to be.

Para_lyzed ,

Did you check the MD5sum? If you did (and it actually matches), try using a different media creator. You can use something like Rufus or Fedora Media Writer (yes, you can install non-Fedora ISOs with it, the only extra feature it has is that it will automatically download Fedora ISOs you want). If other media creation tools don't work, try a different flash drive, as that's the next most likely issue.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

There are different ways to make an ISO bootable on a pendrive.

With each ISO they tell you with which tool you should do it, usually.

So, if it's not "ventoy", then it is another tool.

lemmyreader ,

Did you do a sha256sum or md5sum checksum after downloading the iso file and after copying it to the Ventoy pendrive ? (Linux uses caching for copying. Taking the pendrive out before your system has done a "safe remove" can cause problems)

MyNameIsRichard ,
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The openSUSE Wiki says not to use ventoy as it can cause boot issues.

Lambda606 OP ,

Im receiving "load kernel first" during installation debian 12 so that's not opensuse only error

Para_lyzed ,

Then it may be a Ventoy thing, or even just a bad flash drive

kuneho , (edited )
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Download the image again and/or try a different pendrive, different hole on computer.

Check MD5 sums of downloaded ISO if they provide you a sum on the webpage

Lambda606 OP ,

nothing worked

kuneho ,
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is your hdd/ssd healthy?

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