Failure installing Ubuntu 24.04 on an USB stick

[Volker Wysk]

Hi! 

Here's an addendum.

I've tried to install Ubuntu 24.04 with its installer. It didn't work
previously with the crappy USB stick I had. Now I've tried with a better
(much faster) one.

The installation still fails, but in a different way. I get through the
questions and it begins installing. Then a window pops up, with the title
"System Program Problem Detected". Then comes a window titled "Something
went wrong" and the text "We're sorry, but we're unsure what the error is.
..."

That 24.04 installer seems to be seriously broken. At least when you try to
install to an USB stick.

Volker


Am Freitag, dem 16.08.2024 um 12:37 +0200 schrieb Volker Wysk:
> Hi!
> 
> I've written the Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop installer image to an USB stick and 
> booted from it. Then I went through the installer to install a fresh
> Ubuntu
> on another USB stick.
> 
> I've chosen to do "Festplatte löschen und Ubuntu installieren" (translated
> back to English: "delete hard disk and install Ubuntu") installation
> method.
> It went smoothly. 
> 
> But then I couldn't boot the new system. I get an empty screen with just a
> blinking cursor.
> 
> Inspecting the (second) USB stick, I see that it doesn't have an EFI
> System
> Partition. There's just one very small first (1 MB) partition, with a file
> system unrecognized by Gparted. In the second partition, which encompasses
> most of the place, there's a "/boot" directory, but it includes only four
> small files, with names beginning with "memtest86".
> 
> I've successfully installed Ubuntu 22.04 on USB sticks, previously.
> 
> The machine on which I did it, is an oldish laptop, which doesn't have
> UEFI
> (but the old BIOS boot method). But I can't boot the new system on this
> laptop either.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Regards,
> Volker
>