ROCK installation on Asus NUC 14 PRO Intel Core 5 Ultra 125H, hangs on “Welcome to GRUB!”

[Aleksandr_Koshelev]

Hello everyone!
I have a NUC with a completely blank Samsung 256GB M2 and a WD 2TB SATA drive.
I wanted to install Roon ROSK.
I configured all the BIOS settings according to the instructions.
I mounted a bootable USB flash drive using BalenaEtcher, also following the instructions.
When I try to boot from it, the message “welcome to grub” appears, and then it freezes without responding to the keyboard.
I tried a different flash drive and formatting the flash drive—nothing helps.
Could you please tell me what the problem might be?

[BlackJack]

See also:

NUC14 ROCK support

I was overly optimistic and assumed ROCK will support the new NUC I just purchased during the Black Friday / Black November campaign : ASUS NUC 14 Pro+ NUC14RVSU5000R2. Now I know I made a mistake and learnt the hard way that NUCs are supported until version 13 and there is no trick or workaround to get ROCK installed on 14 yet. Patience is my only hope which will heal my soul So my only question is when can I / we expect NUC 14s to get ROCK support ?

[Enguerran_Gillet]

See ROCK will not run on Asus NUC 15 Pro - #6 by Jesse_Fitzgerald

Does this work for you?

[Aleksandr_Koshelev]

Thanks for the reply!
I thought so. Too bad.
((
Could installing Windows and Roon Server be a solution?
Will this degrade the sound quality?

[Aleksandr_Koshelev]

YES!!! It worked!!!
Thank you so much!!!