Live USB rocky v10

[CoderRL]

1. I have rocky 9.5 gnome installed on my HP old notebook a while ago…

2. Wanted to update to v10 but the same device isn’t able to boot the live USB anymore.

3. Have tried various iso burners, ventory is the only one that actually displays the list v10, however; the new OS fails to boot - blank screen with a flashing cursor.

4. I am able to load the 9.5 but it is corrupted after trying to install KDE on top of gnome, thus i wanted to install v10 to start from scratch.

I have tried :

- Different tools DD via terminal, UNeBootin, balenaEtcher…

- Disabling secure boot

- Changing boot order

-Tried various flash sticks -8gb, 64gb, 4gb etc

-I format fat32

-Even burnt other rhel branch linux such as alma & rocky ws & server, kde, gnome etc…

-Legacy mode on BIOS

Any ideas please?

[Xino]

Hi

“1. I have rocky 9.5 gnome installed on my HP old notebook a while ago…”

Check CPU

For RL 10, you need CPU support minimum x86-64-v3

[jbkt23]

In a terminal run this command:

 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --help | grep x86-64-v

On my laptop I get this result:

$  /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --help | grep x86-64-v
  x86-64-v4
  x86-64-v3 (supported, searched)
  x86-64-v2 (supported, searched)

V3 is supported but v4 is not.

[CoderRL]

Thanks, this device is:

HP notebook, Laptop 15-da0xxx, 2x intel celeron N4000 1.10Ghz, RAM: 8GB, HDD: 1TB.

(Last week i installed rocky v10 on a better endpoint & it worked fine.)

Just tested on fedora 42 seems to load fine.

I thought the testing phase moves from fedora → centos stream → rhel?

Thanks

[CoderRL]

Thanks, i get this…:

x84-64-v4

x84-64-v3

x84-64-v2 (supported, searched)

[iwalker]

What you have to remember is that Fedora doesn’t have the hardware limits that RHEL does. RHEL10 or Rocky 10 is limited to x86_64-v3. Therefore if you only have x86_64-v2 as supported, that means you are only able to use Rocky 9.x as this supports x86_64-v2. Rocky 8 doesn’t have the limit but with an older kernel it may not work on new hardware.

Fedora will work, because it’s not fixed to x86_64-v3 or even x86_64-v2.

/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --help | grep x86-64
Usage: /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 [OPTION]... EXECUTABLE-FILE [ARGS-FOR-PROGRAM...]
This program interpreter self-identifies as: /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
  x86-64-v4 (supported, searched)
  x86-64-v3 (supported, searched)
  x86-64-v2 (supported, searched)

your machine would have to show supported against x86_64-v3 like above for Rocky 10 to work on it.

[CoderRL]

Thank you iwalker, for this info - if another device hasn’t got linux & i want to install, any of the centOS derivatives like rocky v10, how can one know if the device is v2,v3 or v4 please? (probably via live USB). Also where on the release notes can i find this details please?

[iwalker]

@CoderRL

if another device hasn’t got linux & i want to install, any of the centOS derivatives like rocky v10, how can one know if the device is v2,v3 or v4 please?

Probably using google to find out your CPU info, and for say comparing against this: x86-64 - Wikipedia and other resources.

But probably the easiest way is some Linux LiveCD or by installing something like Fedora to check before going to something more hardware restrictive like RHEL or Rocky.

@CoderRL

Also where on the release notes can i find this details please?

Was real easy to find, just go to the rockylinux.org website and the news section: Rocky Linux 10.0 Available Now - Rocky Linux I’m sure it’s also easy enough to find using tools like google.

[CoderRL]

Thanks , all of us computer science & open source communities ppl, must stay away from big tech, especially alphabet inc.

Appreciate the reply.