Unable to Boot from USB

[Member acrobaticpeace]

Hello all!
I’m very interested in trying out antiX but unfortunately I’ve been having a really hard time booting from a USB. No matter how I create bootable USBs they open onto the initial installation menu and then no matter what I pick just go to black and stay there.
I’ve tried both “antiX-17.4.1_x64-full.iso” and “antiX-19.4_x64-full.iso,” created on two different USB drives, from both Etcher (on Mac OSX system), Startup Disk Creator and the antiX Live USB creator. I can navigate in the menu to the Failsafe mode but that doesn’t change anything.
I’m wondering if maybe the graphics for my machine just isn’t loading? But I’m surprised I’m able to get the initial menu then.
First little bit of system information gleaned from lscpu below – I’m a pretty big Linux novice so let me know what other information you all might need!

Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
Address sizes: 44 bits physical, 48 bits
virtual
CPU(s): 8
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 8
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
CPU family: 23
Model: 96
Model name: AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Ra
deon Graphics

Thank you!

[Member Xecure]

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Hi.

acrobaticpeace wrote:

Model name: AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics

Your CPU is very new and was not supported when the 4.9 linux kernel was released (this is the default antiX 19.X kernel, to better support older machines). You need to boot with an antiX edition with at least Linux kernel 5.4 version.

If you don’t mind, could you try booting with the antiX bullseye-b1 ISO, selecting “Modern Kernel 5.10” in the >>>> Advanced Options <<<<? It is interesting to know if the upcoming antiX 21 release will boot properly on modern machines.

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Member LikkMii]

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Install liquorix.
https://liquorix.net/#install

• This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by LikkMii.

[Member sybok]

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Hi,

you may try to update your live USB, please see this link in FAQ.
Some people run antiX from live-USB which they update continously.

This post might be useful if installation problems occur.
Also, a good practice is to check (md5sum, sha256sum) the integrity of the downloaded ISO file.

Good luck!

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