Anyone tried 22.04 Mate?

[N B Day]

On Sun, 2022-04-24 at 02:02 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 24/04/2022, David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net> wrote:
> > I've done the integrity check on the ISO file, tried writing the image
> > to two different USB media, plugged it into a UEFI motherboard which
> > starts to boot then just shuts down. 21.10 Mate runs off a hard drive
> > with the same motherboard just fine although it does keep saying it has
> > a problem to optionally report, then carries on. I wanted to try the
> > LTS version of Ubuntu Mate then maybe swap back from Mint to Ubuntu.
> > 
> > If I put 22.04 server onto the same media it goes into the boot
> > priority settings OK but I have no wish to go into the installer on
> > this computer. No more spare working hard drives.
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> > 
> 
> When you said that it "starts to boot then just shuts down", describe
> exactly what happened.
> 
> I have found that, in booting, on earlier versions of UbuntuMATE (
> 16.04, to 21.10 (which imploded, so, now, my latest version, is 20.10)
> ), I have to wait about 10-20 minutes. For the first time, it will
> probably be sorting out drivers and such. With what I have observed,
> the boot process starts, then I get a completely black screen.
> 
> If I wander off, and come back 10-30 minutes later, it will likely have
> booted.
> 
> So, if what you have observed, is starting the boot process, then,
> simply getting a completely black screen, I would leave it for up to
> 30 minutes, and find whether it boots.
> 
> If it displays output that shows that it is definitely going through
> the shutdown procedure, that is different.

Boots normally here on this EFI home-built machine from a USB key made with
the SUSE image writer from an iso obtained via torrent. Image writer seems to
do the job with hybrid and non-hybrid isos

I'm going to do a brave act next week and update my wife's Ubuntu MATE
computer in multi-user.target mode with do-release-upgrade which has always
worked for me in the  past.  I made the USB for belt-and-braces since the dog
house is mighty cold in early spring.

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