ZimaOS installer not booting on Minisforum MS-01

[emaspa]

Flashed zimaos_zimacube-1.3.1-1_installer.img to a usb stick and tried to boot it, but even after 1h wait this is all i get on screen:

Tried a different usb stick, different flasher (Balena and Rufus), usb2 and usb3 ports, no change.

I can successfully boot zimaos_zimacube-1.3.1-1.img.xz from usb, but would rather install the OS on internal storage.

[emaspa]

After waiting around 1h and 15 minutes the installer booted and i was able to start the install. It is proceeding very slowly for the past 50 minutes:

[emaspa]

Still proceeding, 30% progress in 5h, curious to see where this goes now.

[emaspa]

Tenacity rewards, 10 hours later...

[emaspa]

For people encountering this issue and wanting to install ZimaOS on internal storage, here is my workaround:

• flash a ubuntu desktop distro on a usb drive
• copy the current version of ZimaOS on the root of the usb drive, in my case it was https://github.com/IceWhaleTech/ZimaOS/releases/download/1.3.2-beta1/zimaos_zimacube-1.3.2-beta1.img.xz
• boot ubuntu and choose to try it
• from the desktop navigate to the ZimaOS img file on the usb drive, double click on it
• ubuntu will offer to restore the image, choose the internal storage you want to install ZimaOS on
• when done reboot the machine, make sure to remove the ubuntu usb stick
• Zima will resize the partitions to the full size of the disk at boot, if you see issue at first boot just reboot another time, that fixed it for me

[sm711]

Bro.... you saved me. I have been trying to install Zima on my NUC for the last 3 days and it never got past the initial boot part. This install from Ubuntu live did the trick. Thanks a ton.

[juliomac]

@emaspa This didn't work for me. It just copied the installer to the HD and it didn't boot either as its boot segment was legacy.