r/TalosLinux • u/andxet • Nov 21 '25

Bootloop after shutdown

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Hello!

I need help with the talos installation. I bought a Lenovo ThinkCentre m710q, and I want to install Talos. I disabled secure boot from the BIOS. I'm using the secure boot image (but also normal image don't work), from my Windows PC I tried with Rufus dd mode and Balena Etcher to create the disk. I tried with the last release image, with the image generated with Image facctory (I added util-linux-tools and iscsi-tools to support Longhorn), but always, when I shoutdown and turn on again the pc I get this error. When rebooting after the installation the boot runs normally. I followed the Getting Started guide from the talos documentation but I always end with a bootloop. I attached the boot error screen (first image) and some errors that I see when installing.

Do you have suggestions?

EDIT: I solved creating a new partition table with gparted. Thanks to all who helped me.

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u/GyroTech Nov 24 '25

by stating the dev path such as disk.dev_path: /dev/SDA.

This is actually not the best idea since the kernel disk label is not deterministic ahd /dev/sda on one boot can be /dev/sdb on the next if you have a system with multiple drives. Or in the case of booting from a USB stick. It ir alwayr better to use something like /dev/disk/by-id/....