Laptop 13 Ryzen 7040 Series - Initial boot with Fedora impossible

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Hi,

I just received a Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series - 7640U - 2.8K Display) and I wanted to boot on Fedora (tried 40 and 41).
As I’m new to Linux, i followed the guide carefully and prepared a usb stick using Fedora Media Writer.
The computer detected the usb key (its name was listed in the BIOS) but it never managed to boot on Fedora with it. I opened up the computer, replaced the SSD and the RAM. Also did the reset suggested in a few posts using the ‘Disconnect battery’ option in the BIOS. That did not help.

Moreover, this seems to be specifically linked to Fedora (or Fedora Media Writer), as the same usb key was detected with a Windows 11 prepared with Rufus and with a Ubuntu 24.04 LTS prepared with BalenaGraveur.
Finally, i booted on Ubuntu by default, but if anyone had the same problem, I would like to understand why the computer could not boot on Fedora and if there are solutions (other than those tried before which did not work).

Thank you :slight_smile: !

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You might need to disable secure boot during the install of Fedora.
Also, try to boot from a file. Press F2 to get into the bios, then select boot from file.

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Shouldn’t be necessary, Fedora works with secure boot. I installed Fedora 40 no problem the usual USB drive method.

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Thanks! I haven’t try with the file. I will let you know how it goes.

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Yes, it is not the source of the problem: I forgot to mention that I tried this option too, and it did not work either (sorry).

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Does it go to Grub when you boot it where you can select the “install fedora” option?

Not sure if you tried with other “iso burner options” than fedora media writer?

Sometimes it has also helped to turn the iGPU mode to “gaming”

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Try a different usb stick if you have one available, just to rule it out. Or like the post above mentions, try a different iso burner like Balena or Rufus.