<div dir="ltr">not yet<div>got to download </div><div> </div><div>how is it?</div></div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 4:04 AM N B Day <<a href="mailto:nbday@fastmail.fm">nbday@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Sun, 2022-04-24 at 02:02 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 24/04/2022, David Fletcher <<a href="mailto:dave@thefletchers.net" target="_blank">dave@thefletchers.net</a>> 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. -- N. B. Day 39.4042 North, 119.7377 West, Elev 1387 meters, 14.4 C Sat, 2022-04-23 at 15:30 PDT (UTC -0700) Ingersoll up 0:13, 2 users, load average: 0.56, 0.37, 0.26 AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core Processor Memory: 31 GiB Free: 26 GiB, Linux 5.17.3-1-default openSUSE Tumbleweed 20220421, GNOME Shell 42.0 Obsolete: Ingersoll in service for 1,103 days -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>