HI:
I spent quite a lot of time trouble shooting the burning of Linux Mint Cinnamon (LMC) ISO on USBs and
trying to boot them. I used both LMC Standard and Edge 20.1 edition.
I did all the integrity and authentication checking for each ISO also.
Here is my machine I want to setup dual boot along with WIn 10:
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ASUS ROG GA502IV Zephyrus R7 RTX 2060 16GB/512GB Gaming Laptop;
15.6" 144Hz FHD Display, AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS, 16GB DDR4,
512GB PCIe NVMe SSD,
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q,
Win 10 Home, GA502IV-WS74
Two USBs were used, a new Verbatim 3.0 USB 64GB, and an older USB 2.0 8GB.
The USB 2.0 8GB has been very reliable over many years!
I burned the ISOs onto the two USBs using an older Hewlett-Packard (HP) DV7 laptop,
and the new ASUS ROG GA502IV Zephyrus laptop.
Formatted both USBs as msdos with FAT32 using USB Stick Formatter.
a) Experiments on LMC (Linux Mint Cinnamon) Standard 20.1:
a.1) Burn LMC Standard using HP DV7 with no error using USB Image Writer.
a.2) Burn LMC Standard using Asus laptop with no error using USB Image Writer.
I did a.1) and a.2) to make sure the Asus was not the problem.
The HP DV7 laptop has been very reliable.
This means I burned the USBs twice for each USB for LMC Standard 20.1,
and try to boot ISO USBs on the new ASUS laptop.
a.3) Observations for both USB were the same when booting off the above two USBc
under these 4 scenarios:
a.3.1) Boot LMC Standard that was burned using HP DV7 laptop on Verbatim 3.0 USB 64GB,
a.3.2) Boot LMC Standard that was burned using HP DV7 laptop on on older USB 2.0 8GB
a.3.3) Boot LMC Standard that was burned using ASUS laptop on Verbatim 3.0 USB 64GB,
a.3.4) Boot LMC Standard that was burned using ASUS laptop on on older USB 2.0 8GB
a.3.4) Console output during USB LMC ISO boot
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[b]Initramfs unpacking failed: Decoding failed[/b]
…
...
[b]… nouveau …. SCHED_ERROR [/b]
...
...
… [b][u]( a lot of nouveau related errors here )[/u][/b]
…
[b]… nouveau …. SCHED_ERROR [/b]
...
(Then MANY other error messages….
Eventually the console error outputs stopped.
And console went into [b]freeze[/b] mode!)
Conclusion:
The ASUS laptop does not play with LMC 20.1 standard.
May be some hardware is "too new" for my case.
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B) Experiments on LMC Edge 20.1:
b.1) Burn LMC Edge using HP DV7 with no error using USB Image Writer.
b.2) Burn LMC Edge using Asus laptop with no error using USB Image Writer.
Again:
I did b.1) and b.2) to make sure the Asus laptop was not the problem.
The HP DV7 laptop has been very reliable.
This means I burned the USBs twice for each USB for
LMC Edge 20.1, and try to boot them on the new ASUS laptop.
b.3) Observations for both USB were the same when booting off the above two USBc
under these 4 scenarios:
b.3.1) Boot LMC Edge that was burned using HP DV7 laptop on Verbatim 3.0 USB 64GB,
b.3.2) Boot LMC Edge that was burned using HP DV7 laptop on on older USB 2.0 8GB
b.3.3) Boot LMC Edge that was burned using ASUS laptop on Verbatim 3.0 USB 64GB,
b.3.4) Boot LMC Edge that was burned using ASUS laptop on on older USB 2.0 8GB
b.3.4) Console output during USB LMC boot
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[b]Initramfs unpacking failed: Decoding failed[/b]
…..
[b](The graphical LM logo shows up.
I think I waited for a long time, [u][i]may be several minutes[/i][/u], before it
completed loading up LMC Edge from USB)[/b]
.
I am surprise that it booted up when initramfs failed to unpack for LMC Edge 20.1 on USB boot!
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Comments:
It seems initramfs cannot be unpacked for both LMC Standard and Edge 20.1
I never have this initramfs problem before.
May be Clem and other LM developers can look into this.
I hope this report helps.