First of all, I’m not really a Windows user. I used to have a USB Linux installer handy somewhere but for some reason, I can’t find it anywhere. dd
command would have been nice but the laptop I borrowed only runs Windows. I tried to create a bootable USB using different software such as Rufus (tried all different options), and others, I forgot their names. I also tried different latest ISOs from the Manjaro website and also different USB flash drives but the results are all the same.
For some reason my installer ends up with a 2.21GB Unallocated partition, a 4MB FAT labeled MISO_EFI, and the rest is another unallocated partition. The MISO_EFI partition contains only 1 folder called “efi” and another folder in it called “boot” which contains a single file called “bootx64.efi.” There’s nothing else in the flash drive. When I try to boot the flash drive I only get a black screen. No blinking cursor, nothing.
This is the Log I get from Rufus:
Format operation started
Requesting disk access...
Will use 'D:' as volume mountpoint
Deleting partitions (This may take a while)...
Deleting ALL partition(s) from disk '\\?\PhysicalDrive1':
● Partition 1 (offset: 2377273344, size: 4 MB)
Opened \\.\PhysicalDrive1 for exclusive write access
Writing Image...
Remounted \\?\Volume{03269ab1-e697-11ea-9064-806e6f6e6963}\ as D:
Found USB 2.0 device 'Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 USB Device' (0930:6544)
Using autorun.inf label for drive F: 'Linux Mint 20 Xfce 64-bit'
Found USB 2.0 device 'SanDisk Cruzer Force USB Device' (0781:557D)
2 devices found
Disk type: Removable, Disk size: 32 GB, Sector size: 512 bytes
Cylinders: 3818, Tracks per cylinder: 255, Sectors per track: 63
Partition type: MBR, NB Partitions: 1
Disk ID: 0x00000000
Drive has an unknown Master Boot Record
Partition 2:
Type: EFI FAT (0xef)
Size: 4 MB (4194304 bytes)
Start Sector: 5152352, Boot: No
Found USB 2.0 device 'Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 USB Device' (0930:6544)
Using autorun.inf label for drive F: 'Linux Mint 20 Xfce 64-bit'
Found USB 2.0 device 'SanDisk Cruzer Force USB Device' (0781:557D)
2 devices found
Disk type: Removable, Disk size: 32 GB, Sector size: 512 bytes
Cylinders: 3818, Tracks per cylinder: 255, Sectors per track: 63
Partition type: MBR, NB Partitions: 1
Disk ID: 0x00000000
Drive has an unknown Master Boot Record
Partition 2:
Type: EFI FAT (0xef)
Size: 4 MB (4194304 bytes)
Start Sector: 5152352, Boot: No
I tried a couple of other distros (Debian-based) and the installer works. But I need a Manjaro installer. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.