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Hi! Today I have a noobie question. I tried to install Pop!OS on my laptop for the very first time and I did everything the instructions on the support website told to do. Disabled the secure boot, flashed ISO file trough Etcher, booted from UEFI USB stick and I got this (pic attached). Tried switching USB ports, USB sticks, redownloading the ISO file and nothning. Can someone please explain to me like I'm 5 what to do next and how to fix this?
Edit: spamming F6 worked, installed successfully!
Glad you fixed it. Have a look and start using ventoy for your ISO and USB needs.
Thanks, will try that for sure!
I haven't personally had this problem but I did search the error. Try the solutions found here...
https://askubuntu.com/questions/47076/how-do-i-fix-cant-open-dev-sr0-no-medium-found-on-usb-boot
I looked at it before and I tried to do something but pressing F6 did nothing. I just tried again right now when I saw that last comment on the thread you posted to just spam F6 and that worked. Thank you!
Make sure the USB was flashed with dd (direct disk) mode, and that you're booting it in UEFI mode. Some tools attempt to make a bootable USB drive by extracting the contents of a CD-based ISO and trying to configure a USB-bootable environment from it, but this breaks the Pop!_OS installation environment as it's already a hybrid ISO meant to be imaged directly to the USB drive as is, bit for bit.
Actually the tool I used the first time I tried gave me a warning that this is hybrid ISO and flashed as is. Still don't know what problem it was but spamming F6 fixed it and I installed pop successfully! Hello Linux world!