Hi! Today I have a noobie question. I tried to install Pop!OS on my laptop for the very first time and I did everything the instructions on the support website told to do. Disabled the secure boot, flashed ISO file trough Etcher, booted from UEFI USB stick and I got this (pic attached). Tried switching USB ports, USB sticks, redownloading the ISO file and nothning. Can someone please explain to me like I’m 5 what to do next and how to fix this?

Edit: spamming F6 worked, installed successfully!

  • Michael Murphy (S76)@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Make sure the USB was flashed with dd (direct disk) mode, and that you’re booting it in UEFI mode. Some tools attempt to make a bootable USB drive by extracting the contents of a CD-based ISO and trying to configure a USB-bootable environment from it, but this breaks the Pop!_OS installation environment as it’s already a hybrid ISO meant to be imaged directly to the USB drive as is, bit for bit.

    • Wolfie 🐺🌙@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Actually the tool I used the first time I tried gave me a warning that this is hybrid ISO and flashed as is. Still don’t know what problem it was but spamming F6 fixed it and I installed pop successfully! Hello Linux world!