Hello! I’m trying to install EndeavourOS on my PC, i’ve been using Linux for about a year now.
I made a LiveUSB using USBWriter on a Windows laptop with an 8GB USB, whenver i try to boot i get to the splash screen and when trying to boot into the live environment all i get is
Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok
ZSTD-compressed data is corrupt
-- System haltedcan you use ventoy
USBWriter said it installed succesfully, but i can try ventoy
I used the GitHub Mirror so maybe i’ll try a different one aswell.
Try checking the checksum of the downloaded ISO regardless where you download it from or what tool you use to make a bootable USB.
how would i go about doing that?
From the website
You can download the sh512sum file here.
Read more at:
https://endeavouros.com/latest-release/
You should be able to find an equivalent command in windows.
If you are using PowerShell:
certutil -hashfile "EndeavourOS_Apollo_22_1.iso" SHA512
Then you can type
cat EndeavourOS_Apollo_22_1.iso.sha512sum
and compare the two outputs
they seem the same to me
SHA512 hash of EndeavourOS_Apollo_22_1.iso:
9e78c0294622c2677b41eff667bb9f26572818a533904063ca0657dc342c901f98749e40b55d59d7a19dce9a4d7ae6cc9c54d751845e179cc157aa43fa372d24
CertUtil: -hashfile command completed successfully.
PS C:\Users\USER\Downloads> cat EndeavourOS_Apollo_22_1.iso.sha512sum
9e78c0294622c2677b41eff667bb9f26572818a533904063ca0657dc342c901f98749e40b55d59d7a19dce9a4d7ae6cc9c54d751845e179cc157aa43fa372d24 EndeavourOS_Apollo_22_1.isoThen there is an issue with the program you are using to burn the iso to your USB. As suggested by @Stephane please try to use Ventoy. Ventoy works for me most of the time.
Still doesn’t work
I get this instead
If you have possibility use another USB flashdrive and perhaps another tool like rufus in dd mode.
all i get is a blinking cursor now (using rufus)
tried rebooting and now i get this
From the first post it seems that there is an issue with zstd?
Even the most recent screenshot shows
error while loading shared libraries: libzstd.so.1
@NDXDirectorsCut try Balena Etcher and see how it goes
god damn It was the most stupid issue
No attempt to boot had any consistency and the ISO checksum (on Ventoy) was the same even after the errors.
Turns out the issue (i think??? still not sure it seems really stupid) was my RAM, i had it in slot 1 and 2 instead of 1 and 3 (It’s dual-channel)
I’ve booted into the Live environment fine and everything seems to work rn
Thanks everyone for all the help anyway! The answers came quick and were helpful even if they didnt solve it right away,
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