Dabbling with Ubuntu 25.04 Beta iso (2nd April 2025)

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi,

These are just brief notes made from the rather untidy notes I made during
the install...

So I went to https://releases.ubuntu.com/25.04/ and downloaded the iso:
ubuntu-25.04-beta-desktop-amd64.iso

... and verified its contents with sha256sum.

The page I downloaded the iso from did not have any suggestion of a link
for me to provide feedback to Canonical/.launchpad.

I tested it on an old lenovo X201 ThinkPad. I found that in order to
install the system, I had to choose "Grub 2 boot" rather than  "Boot in
normal mode".

Also, the kernel parameters provided by Little Girl proved to be invaluable:
1. Start booting your computer.
2. If the Grub menu doesn't usually show up for you after your BIOS
or UEFI splash screen, then hold the Shift key after the BIOS or UEFI
splash screen is displayed to get the Grub menu to come up.
Otherwise, just boot until you see the Grub menu.
3. Press the e key while the kernel you would like to boot into is
highlighted (use the arrow keys to select a different one than the
one that is highlighted by default, if desired).
4. Find the line that contains this: quiet splash
5. Add a space after splash and then add your boot option, like this:
foo bar baz quiet splash nomodeset nouveau.modeset=0
6. Press F10 to save the change and boot.

My (limited) understanding of the above commands is that they are intended
for Nvidia systems only. However, lshw reveals that there is only one
display device:

        *-display
             description: VGA compatible controller
             product: Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci at 0000:00:02.0
             logical name: /dev/fb0
             version: 02
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list fb
             configuration: depth=32 latency=0 resolution=1280,800
             resources: memory:f2000000-f23fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff
ioport:1800(size=8) memory:c0000-dffff



HTH,


Ian

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