XPS 13 9315 fail install silverblue-main

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The XPS came with supported ubuntu 20.04; not what I was looking for. Updated it to 22.04 but Dell/Intel didn't have builtin camera support. (!!) So I thought I'd try ublue-os, start with main, then update to the developer experience build. (I'd tested same on different machine running it under Windows w/ Virtualbox, to good effect) Made sure I had bootable dell recovery usb.

While attempting install, get "The following error occurred while installing the payload. This is a fatal error and installation will be aborted.

The comand 'ostree container image deploy --sysroot=/mnt/sysimage --image=ghcr.io/ublue-os/silverblue-main:38 --no-signature-verification' exited with the code 1.

Now I'm stuck. Cannot even install from the dell recovery usb I think because it wants UEFI secure boot and since this install wiped the old file system, doesn't have the keys etc.

I assume that if I can figure out how to clear the history from the TPM for UEFI I might be able to move forward and still see if I can get universal-blue loaded.

Anyone have hints or experience with this?

Most of the docs at Dell and online google and youtube seem to assume I'd start with a Windows install. Nope.

Some say that I might be able to get into BIOS and tell it to clear TPM. Greyed out.

I may have to take part of a day off from my real job, and see if I can get any documentation/support from Dell since even the dell recovery usb is not working. Right now I have a very expensive noncomputing brick.

[ChristopherRabotin]

Disclaimer: I know nothing about ublue, and only about to install it soon, but I have 15 years of experience with Linux.

Do you have an idea of what the exact error was when the ostree command failed? Have you also tried reinstalling Fedora as you did before running the rps-ostree command?

If all you need is a valid secure boot partition, you can install any other modern distro, like a standard Fedora or OpenSuse, and install that. However, my hunch is that the Dell recovery actually needs the recovery partition not just a secure boot partition.