Flashed a snapshot image to a USB drive but can't boot it!

[gbhollr]

So I switched over to kernel 6.12.17 and flashed a new ISO again...
I still keep getting the same error. Do I keep downgrading one version at a time until I get it right or...?

[DukeComposed]

I still keep getting the same error. Do I keep downgrading one version at a time until I get it right or...?

As The Dude would say, "Obviously you're not a computer scientist."

I have owned 11 bikes. This is how they were stolen

Bike 8 was stolen from a station cycle rack, where I had parked it directly beneath a camera. This time, I thought, we have them. Triumphantly I went to the police. "Look!" I said. "You will be able to see them." They refused to look at the footage unless I could narrow it down to a window shorter than a few hours.

Afterwards I found a chatroom thread among Cambridge computer scientists, one of whom had also been told that unless he could pin down the moment of theft no one would look at the footage. He said he had tried to explain sorting algorithms to police — he was a computer scientist, after all.

You don't watch the whole thing, he said. You use a binary search. You fast forward to halfway, see if the bike is there and, if it is, zoom to three quarters of the way through. But if it wasn't there at the halfway mark, you rewind to a quarter of the way through. It's very quick. In fact, he had pointed out, if the CCTV footage stretched back to the dawn of humanity it would probably have only taken an hour to find the moment of theft. This argument didn't go down well.

[putih]

ah that error #1
r or q

came up with some iso antix /mx respin with ventoy

the solutions is use MX Live USB Maker

[gbhollr]

@DukeComposed Alright. I think I get it. But how do I narrow down to what version I need. Like you said, I'm not a computer scientist but boy do I wanna learn the ins and outs of troubleshooting a Linux system.

And @putih , I am using MX Live USB Maker.

[CharlesV]

So I switched over to kernel 6.12.17 and flashed a new ISO again...
I still keep getting the same error. Do I keep downgrading one version at a time until I get it right or...?

Did you restart and verify that you were ON that new 6.12.17 kernel... before you created the iso ?

And have you tried :
1) A new pocket drive ? (a different brand / model )
2) Excluding all of your data to see if you can boot the iso without data on it.

[siamhie]

So I switched over to kernel 6.12.17 and flashed a new ISO again...
I still keep getting the same error. Do I keep downgrading one version at a time until I get it right or...?

When you opened MX Snapshot, What kernel was listed at the very bottom under "Live kernel"?

[DukeComposed]

@DukeComposed Alright. I think I get it. But how do I narrow down to what version I need. Like you said, I'm not a computer scientist but boy do I wanna learn the ins and outs of troubleshooting a Linux system.

Binary searching is useful for more than just computer repair. If you know an old kernel works but a new one doesn't (personally I'd just stick with the old kernel but that's just me), you pick a halfway point between them and try that kernel.

If that kernel doesn't work, you pick a new halfway point, one between your old halfway point and the first kernel. With each test, you're skipping half of the kernels in the range between your samples. Eventually you'll narrow your scope down to a specific boundary condition: these two kernels will be next to each other in sequence, one will work, one will not.

This is, of course, assuming all kernels are alike except for this one exact difference you're looking for. We can also safely assume this isn't true in the real world but at the very least you can conduct your search intelligently.