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I'm a new to Linux, and I'm trying to boot the graphical installation of Artix Linux with the XFCE desktop environment off of the ISO artix-xfce-openrc-20210726-x86_64.iso onto my Lenovo Thinkpad T480s.

When I boot from the HDD USB that contains the ISO, I'm directed to a blank terminal except for a short welcome message for GRUB and the words

error: unknown filesystem

By the way, I formatted the USB with Rufus using FAT32. The Thinkpad that I recently purchased had no operating system(s) installed, and the hard drives in the terminal are listed as "hd0" and "hd1". Running the "insmod normal" command that I've seen could be a possible help doesn't work due to the unrecognized filesystem.

What is the best approach to go about fixing this? Thanks.

FargolK
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  • It sounds like something went wrong when creating the usb boot media. How did you get the iso on the usb stick? If this is an installer iso/image, you should write it raw into the media. You could use etcher to do this. (No need to format as it'll be entirely overwritten anyways). https://www.balena.io/etcher/ – rudib Aug 11 '21 at 23:42
  • @rudib I fixed the problem by using Etcher. I dunno why that worked instead of Rufus, but we're running alright now. Thanks for your help. – PRGMogu1 Aug 12 '21 at 00:29
  • I never really used Rufus, so I can't say for sure, but AFAIK: Rufus does too much in your case. You're downloading a disk image that includes raw data (as in partition, bootloader, etc). AFAIK, Rufus will partition the disk, install a bootloader and put the iso somewhere. So what might have happened is that Rufus put the iso inside a partition while it was meant to be written directly. – rudib Aug 12 '21 at 02:01
  • "etcher" / "Etcher" = [balenaEtcher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etcher_(software)) – Peter Mortensen Jul 22 '22 at 20:35

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