Endeavour OS volume doesn't show up after 30 seconds, falls back to interactive prompt

General system EndeavourOS installation
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The problem I’m facing is probably coming from Windows, so I don’t know if this is the best place to post this. Please let me know if it’s not and I can delete my post.

I don’t have access to a USB or a CD at the moment, but I wanted to install this EndeavourOS anyway, so I couldn’t completely follow the installation instructions this site provides. I followed the directions (for UEFI laptops) this Ubuntu user gave here (while replacing Ubuntu with EndeavourOS, and without using etcher or UNetbootin), installing refind, making a partition to replace the live USB, up until the point where you’re supposed to extract the ISO to the partition emulating the live USB.

When I try to boot from the partition, it can’t find the device. I believe this is because it’s not named EndeavourOS_202108. Specifically, it’s looking for device dev/disk/by-label/EndeavourOS_202108 so it can mount it at run/archiso/bootmnt. After searching for it for 30 seconds and failing, it says that it’s “Falling back to interactive prompt.”

My problem is that when I try to rename the the partition in Windows to EndeavourOS_202108, an eleven character limit only lets me name it EndeavourOS. Is there a way to get around this? That way I can rename the drive so EndeavourOS knows where to look.

Edit: It turns out this is a problem with the FAT32 format, which only allows for 11 character names, apparently. Is it possible to use a different format for the live usb?

Also, edited the body and title to have more information.

Final edit: Downloading a newer version than current release worked. My real problem was when trying to disable RAID on my SSD so I could install EndeavourOS on a partition of it. But, even though I followed instructions so I wouldn’t ruin my Windows 10 installation (I’m trying to dual boot), I still ruined it and required a system repair. I think I’m going to wait a bit before I try this again, if I do try again. Thanks for the help!

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Most devices have USB? What is the reason you don’t have access to usb?

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I have USB ports on my device. What I meant is that don’t have access to any flash drives. I think I’d face the same problem on a FAT32 USB, anyway, because that format is limited to 11 characters for its name, based on what I’ve read on forums. Basically, I guess my problem is that the computer says that “‘dev/disk/by-label/EndeavourOS_202108’ did not show up after 30 seconds.” And I assume it’s because the drive has to be named EndeavourOS_202108.

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I’m not sure exactly why you are trying to do this as usb drives are a dime a dozen. They aren’t expensive and most people with a computer would have them? Couldn’t you borrow one? But, anyway the image does take a while to load. I’m just not up on the procedure you are trying to use and i would have to attempt it myself to understand what the issue is that you are having and why as I’m not familiar with this way.

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Would it help to show what my computer shows me? Here’s a picture of what I run into when I try to load the live installation.
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this issue is known, the ISO has a labelname that does not respects FAT32 label name restrictions.
This will be changed for next release.

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I’m glad it will be fixed, so thanks for letting me know that.
In the meantime, is there any way to get around this issue so I can install EndeavourOS anyway? I can reformat the drive if needed.

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i send you the info…

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