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"Invalid Magic Number, You need to load the kernel first"

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Limp Gawd
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Hello

Created bootable USB with Linux Mint and it says:

"Invalid Magic Number, You need to load the kernel first"

Tried several things like disabling most BIOS security of the HP Elitebook.

In Boot Options, there is bootx64.efi but it results in the above error.

Any hint?

Thank you!
 
Most likely the image didn't flash to the thumb drive properly or you have some extra settings with whatever you used to make the bootable thumb drive that messed things up.
 
Thanks, any particular set of settings and ISO proven to be compatible with Elitebook?

I am also willing to flash a custom BIOS if available.
 
Is it an x86 elitebook or arm (snapdragon)?
If it's arm, an x86/64 image won't work.
 
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There should be no special settings needed to flash the ISO to the thumbdrive. It's a rather straightforward process for software. No custom BIOS should be needed. The error indicates something is either wrong with the image/ISO or something went wrong with the process of flashing the ISO to the thumb drive.
 
yeah, ill third or fourth the thumbdrive. if its a cheapo, use a better one and recreate it.
 
The mint ISO should have an option to boot from the image rather than install try that to verify the image if it works that way disable TPM in the bios and reattempt the install.
 
Tried Etcher with Mint to no avail.

The problem could to be that the HP Elitebook BIOS worked better with FAT32 as AI pointed due to several peculiarities with Boot Security.

Mint had issues being written in a FAT32 USB and Rufus displayed a related warning (though Rufus supposedly splits large OS files).

Linux Lite instead worked like a charm. There was an error initially when booting from USB but it was bypassed automatically the next second.

It could have also helped that I prior cleaned and formatted the USB via diskpart.

Thank you!
 
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