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I'm new to this forum. I was trying to boot from Mageia live USB. I downloaded mageia-xfce-6.1 and checked its md5sum, sha1sum and sha512sum as well. I use to run Debian stable9.9 XFCE and kali linux XFCE on my computer. My computer's specification are- 1.7GHZ Intel Atom processor, 250GB hard disk, 1GB RAM. Also, I have tried so many distros on same machine like- *buntu variants, MX linux, ROSA, UPLOS, Mint, Peppermint, Puppy, Tails etc. None of them made trouble while booting their live USB so I guess my hardware is not faulty. I made the bootable USB with 'dd' command with terminal.

sudo dd bs=4M if=/home/globaluser/Downloads/Mageia-6.1-LiveDVD-Xfce-i586-DVD.iso of=/dev/sdb conv=fdatasync

I rebooted my computer and chose booting from the USB. I chose the first option "boot from mageia free drivers sth" and it showed this error

I rebooted my computer again and tried to boot with non-free drivers but this showed same error as above. Changing the resolution to something else didn't work as well.
Then, I tried to boot with other options like ACPI off and local APCI off. But this time it stuck on this screen. It has been 2 hours but it is still stuck

Am I doing something wrong ?
I tried to make bootable USB with Gnome-Multiwriter too but nothing worked

Hi Globaluser and welcome to Mageia.

please try another usb.
otherwise, if able, boot up a Virtual box using the live .iso- not the usb,
set up online media and download "isodumper"
use isodumper to write the usb from the live environment. isodumper by default checks the integrity of the write.

then try again.

I tried other USB today but it shows the same errors as above. My computer's specification are too low to run QEMU or virtual box. I tried to boot ISO from directly hard disk as well but that trick reached on another error. Isodumper is not available in debian's repository. Gnome multi-writer verifies the writing process too.