USB memory stick for Ubuntu install

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2021-08-06 at 21:00 -0700, Bob wrote:
> On rebooting the system still hangs at the same
> place it did before.  The boot stops with a message at the top of the screen
> that says '/dev/sda9: clean, 236704/4890624 files, 4396335/19531264 blocks'.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to continue troubling shooting this?

This might be the last message you can see, but it's unlikely an error
message ;). You need to take a look at the log files.

"Tip: While the journal is stored in a binary format, the content of
stored messages is not modified. This means it is viewable with strings,
for example for recovery in an environment which does not have systemd
installed, e.g.:

$ strings /mnt/arch/var/log/journal/af4967d77fba44c6b093d0e9862f6ddd/system.journal | grep -i message"
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Journal

You could also try to use an Ubuntu flavour live DVD, install the
package "systemd-container" and then run

$ sudo systemd-nspawn -bqD /mount/point/to/the/install

and after that probably use the regularly "journalctl" command, instead
of a "string" piped to a "grep" command workaround.