My FW16 (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series) can't boot from my usb drive

Framework Laptop 16 Linux
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I just received the FW laptop and tried to boot fedora 42 from the usb drive after turning off secure booting and enabling booting from usb options. Unfortunately, whenever I selected my bootable usb drive (whenever it’s finally detected by the computer), it would say, “Fedora boot failed”. I don’t know what to do. Please help.

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I formatted a usb into exfat and then into a fedora boot using disk utility on my Mac. Whether it’s at start up or in boot manager, it gives me a boot failure message.

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Sounds like it started to boot Fedora and then failed. I’d be double checking the ISO image you burnt to USB. And also the health of the USB drive itself.

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It’s perfectly functionable when I use it with my other computer though. Should I still buy another usb drive?

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My thoughts…

Always helps to have a couple of spares just in case.

Assume you are following Fedora 42 install guide: Fedora 42 Installation on the Framework Laptop 16 - Framework Guides

I have found reformatting the USB before doing the ISO copy has helped when I’ve had similar issues.

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Any ideas on how I should reformat my usb drives?

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Gparted and reformat entire USB drive to “exfat” and make sure to follow install instructions to the tee.

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Unfortunately, there’s no Mac version of Gparted. But I did format the entire USB drive to exfat before making it into a bootable drive. Still didn’t work even after using different usb drives though.

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Share errors with us. Preferably clear screenshots.

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I’ve inputted the images in the original post.

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Assuming you are following the FW Fedora 42 install Guide I’m out of ideas. Sorry.

Yours being a new FW16 I would log a ticket with FW Support. Fedora being one of the supported distros they should help you.

Please let us know what resolves this once you work it out.

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There is one more possibility I can think of…. do you have your expansion modules plugged into the right ports ?

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I’m using usb-a expansion cards on slots 2 and 5. Is that a problem I need to fix or a dead-end?

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That seems OK to me.

I suggest you contact FW Support with this issue.

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Thanks for trying to help me. I can only wait for FW Support’s reply to my issue for now.

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Try plugging the usb drive to port 1 or port 4. I have found them to be the most compatible. Also what is the make/model of the usb drive. Is it in an enclosure?

Some are more compatible that others.

Also, try “boot from file” in the bios to select the correct file on the usb drive to run.

Also which tool did you use to write the iso to the usb drive?

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It’s a SanDisk 64GB Thumbstick. I used balenaEtcher just like the guide said. I tried both suggested ports, but I still get the error message. Also, I tried selecting every single file on the thumbdrive, but error message is the same: \some\path\file boot failed.

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I’m so dumb. I accidentally downloaded the wrong fedora workstation 42 file; it was for ARM® aarch64 systems, not the AMD system. I was so excited about my new laptop that I neglected to verify that I was installing the correct version of Fedora in the first place. If you’re reading this, please don’t make the same dumb mistake that I made. I thank everyone who tried to help me.

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Most solutions have simple answers. During troubleshooting we drift towards complexity for some reason. We help each other and we live and we learn. Glad to hear you got this resolved. And thanks for letting us know.