Ubuntu Server 22.04 USB Will Not Boot

[Paul Groves]

Just realised I replied to Aaron directly and not the list. oops.

I did try as waiting for it and I left it for an hour while I had lunch and it was still on the underscore screen when I got back so that didn't work for me.

In the end I had to install from the 20.04 USB and run: sudo do-release-upgrade -d but this wasted so much of my day yesterday.

How can they release an LTS version where the install USB won't even boot properly? These sorts of bugs should be fixed before release in my opinion. Not impressed.


On 19/07/2022 15:19, Keith wrote:
> On 7/18/22 2:02 PM, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
>> I believe this is a known... well it's a bug, but it's not OUR bug.
>>
>> Canonical recently changed the way that Ubuntu ISOs boot. Thanks to
>> buggy firmware, while the ISO is expected to *boot* everywhere, it
>> will sometimes take ages (ok, more like 10 minutes or so) to boot.
>> Getting stuck on "Booting a command list" is the classic evidence of
>> this bug. There's copious amounts of info about the whole mess here:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/1922342
>>
>> In short, try again, and wait a good while for it to boot up. Once the
>> system is fully installed, it won't take this long to boot in the
>> future.
>>
> 
> [snip]
> 
> According to this bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/1977644, there is a working solution (though not officially marked as a fix, yet) targeted for the 22.04.1 milestone. 22.04.1 is scheduled to be released on Aug 4.
> 
> In the bug report above, there are comments from the developers working on the bug that have instructions on how to create a bootable USB ISO without the long delay. OP may want to read over them and try the steps provided as they are fairly simple to follow. Otherwise, OP just needs to wait 10min+ to complete booting.
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