So i downloaded opensuse iso on my pendrive with ventoy, but during installation I’m getting errors due to not matching 5SMD code or smh like that, is there a any way to install system to get a fixed iso?
The openSUSE Wiki says not to use ventoy as it can cause boot issues.
Im receiving “load kernel first” during installation debian 12 so that’s not opensuse only error
Then it may be a Ventoy thing, or even just a bad flash drive
Ventoy is hit and miss in my experience. Verify the MD5Sum and flash the iso directly to the drive.
Ventoy is great! Except that it doesn’t fucking work!
Just write your iso to a normal little usb with sd or whatever the distro recommends.
My ventoy keyring has a few extra usbs on it for this exact problem. I just boot something that will work with ventoy and use dd to make one of the extras into whatever it needs to be.
you disconnected the pen drive too early and you didn’t unmount it first. Common issue with ventoy. Just delete the ISO from the ventoy folder, copy it inside again and wait 5 minutes, then unmount the pen drive, and don’t disconnect it before it’s successfully unmounted.
Tried that didn’t worked
Then re-download it and check the MD5 code before you copy it to the pen drive.
What site are you downloading from?
Or maybe your pendrive is faulty.
Did you do a sha256sum or md5sum checksum after downloading the iso file and after copying it to the Ventoy pendrive ? (Linux uses caching for copying. Taking the pendrive out before your system has done a “safe remove” can cause problems)
Did you check the MD5sum? If you did (and it actually matches), try using a different media creator. You can use something like Rufus or Fedora Media Writer (yes, you can install non-Fedora ISOs with it, the only extra feature it has is that it will automatically download Fedora ISOs you want). If other media creation tools don’t work, try a different flash drive, as that’s the next most likely issue.
Download the image again and/or try a different pendrive, different hole on computer.
Check MD5 sums of downloaded ISO if they provide you a sum on the webpage
nothing worked
is your hdd/ssd healthy?
There are different ways to make an ISO bootable on a pendrive.
With each ISO they tell you with which tool you should do it, usually.
So, if it’s not “ventoy”, then it is another tool.
Pretty much no iso will tell you to use Ventoy, Ventoy directly boots isos. It is not writing a usb like most tools do.
Ok, I didn’t know that.
Pretty easy to imagine that most system installers would not work that way.
