Okay, so I got it to work via bazzite, turned it off for a bit, and now when ive turned it back on, it wont load again??? it is saying that i need to ‘load the kernel first’ and i just dont understand. support has not been very helpful at all. : (
Sorry, not sure I understand. It sounds like the basite usb installer boots. Did u try to install basite at that point and it wont boot after the install? Or did u shut it off and try try the basit installer again, and that wont boot now?
With the unpredictable behavior you describe. Like “it worked first time, but now has an error”.
I would suspect a hardware problem. RAM or the Mainboard.
So, if you can say what RAM you have, we might be able to help you.
If it helps, compatible ram is list is here:
Lastly, with the laptop being unpredictable, it is probably best not to try and upgrade the BIOS until it is more stable. Updating the BIOS on an unstable machine will most likely brick the whole laptop.
i had bought everything from Framework, and had bought the singular 16. if only i would be able to call, man…also, i turned it off just to make sure i could log in and such. i managed to successfully install bazzite, make an account, and encrypt the computer.
So I’m not a bazzite user, but a quick search indicates that this might be related to secure boot (you may have to disable secure boot in the bios). You may have more luck trying a support forum for bazzite at this point. I could be still be hardware, but if you made it through the install, I think not.
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Yep. I’m going to do that tomorrow, it’s far too hot today. Tomorrow I search for a forum and HOPEFULLY get it all set : )
I use dd, but it’s worth applying caution in general. If one uses that to write the USB drive, but accidentally targets the internal Mac SSD, one can effectively wipe the one good working computer.
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If your new approaches have different errors in the boot sequence, post a new pic - it may help readers give assistance. Make it as readable and in-focus as you can - webcams sometimes aren’t the best for image clarity.
@James_Timmerman If you get bazzite working and your happy enough with it, stick with that for a bit. It is a fedora based disrtro so switching to ubuntu later will come with some learning.
That said, I was curious so I downloaded the ubuntu-26.04-desktop-amd64.iso and flashed it to a usb device with the dd utility (with ubuntu 24.04). As others have pointed out, you do need to be careful with dd but it looks like you are. I used a usb 2.0 type A device in an usb A expansion card located on the right front of the laptop - the one closest to me. For intel, I don’t think it matters what slot you put your expansion card in, for an amd cpu it might.
I doubt the iso you downloaded is corrupt as it likely would not have booted at all. I checked the iso I downloaded with
shasum -a 256 ubuntu-26.04-desktop-amd64.iso
487f87faaf547ea30e0aba4d5b53346292571256b25333a978db1692bcee9dd2 ubuntu-26.04-desktop-amd64.iso
which is the expected output.
Of course, for me the usb booted straight into the ubuntu installer (it did take a few minutes to load - no more than 5) on my framework core Ultra series 1 125H. I do have the most recent bios (3.07); however I think it unlikely an older bios is the issue.
I agree with the suggestion above to use caution about updating your bios - at least until you have some confidence your hardware is good.
That said, I suspect you have been unlucky with your usb drives or the ubuntu installer does not like being flashed from mac os by the tools you have tried.
Try to be patient. I switched from mac to linux many years ago (also in grad school). For me, that is a good thing.
I wish you luck.
Finally fixed it! I don’t really know how, but I’m happy with it, so it doesn’t really matter for now. Thanks to everyone who helped!!!
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Super. Once you’ve safe-unplugged the dongle, do a full reboot, and you should find that the start-up time is in the order of 20 seconds or so. If you hit Escape during the sequence, it should make progress every few seconds, and rarely get stuck on any part.
One extra check before blaming the laptop: verify the ISO checksum on the Mac before writing it, then write the USB again with a different tool/port. If the boot log stops while reading files from the installer, a bad write or flaky USB-C expansion card/port is still more likely than the empty NVMe. Also try the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ISO once; if 24.04 boots and 26.04 does not, that gives support a much clearer bug report.
What fixed it for me was setting the date and time in the bios - Suspect that some certificate checks on the Ubuntu install are failing as they aren’t valid yet when the system clock is set to the default out of the box time.
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DUDE THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS.
I just received my Laptop 13 Pro and for the life of me could not figure out why other OS would boot fine, but Ubuntu would not. As soon as I corrected the BIOS date/time, it worked right away.
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