Hi there, I am unable to boot the XFCE live USB install disk. After a brief moment on the screen with three small square dots, I get a message “Unable to contact settings server / Could not connect: No such file or directory”. I just downloaded the iso image and wrote to the USB with the following…

Try using Ventoy - you can use the USB drive as normal storage as well as to boot from. And you can easily verify the checksum of the ISO that ended up on the device. It looks like the ISO was corrupted, either the download or on the way onto the USB drive. Easier is to just use cp. sudo cp Manj…

Thank you. The cp method did the same thing, so I did the ventoy method. I installed Ventoy to the drive with the correct options, but I don’t understand how I drag the ISO onto the USB. I don’t see the USB flash drive in the file manager or anything.

[image] mlibu: The cp method did the same thing Well - did you check and verify the checksum of the downloaded input file at least? Was it o.k.? When Ventoy is installed to the drive, you may want to disconnect and then re-insert the device for whatever file manager you use to pick up the …

[image] mlibu: Maybe I need the internet for this install? No, you don´t. [image] mlibu: The motherboard is ASUS E35M1-M. Cannot remember the CPU at the moment. If you use ventoy, you can create an USB-Stick with multiple ISO´s. Thus you can test with ubuntu ISO or others. (and then …

Unfortunately Ventoy did the same thing. I’m going to try a different flash drive, but if the flash drive was having some sort of invisible write error I can’t see Ventoy working on it. Also I will confirm the checksum. UPDATE: The checksum matches.

[image] mlibu: Also I will confirm the checksum. The one most important thing - to make sure you boot a viable image.

Where was it good? On the file that ended up on the Ventoy device? Or just on the ISO file that was downloaded? … and then was written by whatever method to the USB device …

The file on my local drive was good. Just finished writing to a new flash drive now. Will check it on the flash drive.

Unable to boot XFCE live USB

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soundofthunder 13 January 2026 17:17 3

Checksum files are provided for all official Manjaro editions. It’s best to always check the ISO for consistency by comparing the checksum (sha256).