Dirich
July 2nd, 2019, 08:23 PM
I was on 17.10 and happened to wish to upgrade. I download 18.04 LTS and...
1. I create a USB installer while on linux, this partitions my pen leaving only 2 MB of the 8GB available as the FAT32 partition...
Why the need to partition in ext, and why 8 GB partition? Seems unneeded to me...
I proceed to install:
2. If I select "install together with 17.10" before touching the partitions the recap says it will modify sdb partition 7
3. If I select the option to replace the current install the recap says it will modify sdb partition 8
My primary partition is sdb2, my home is sdb3, my swap sdb4, then I have 2 windows big partitions. Why does the auto install tries to install on different partitions when it should use the same one for both replace and side-install? Why does it not specify properly which ones are those (is partition #7 sdb7)? Why does it try to install on a partition that is not the one where the current 17.10 is installed? To be fair, I'm not even sure if I had 8 paritions in total (and I can't check... keep reading).
The autoinstall clearly can't be trusted, so I'll do the usual manual install. Reformat primary, assign swap and specify the old /home to still be /home. Install succeeds, remove pen and reboot:
4. Grub2 doesn't load any graphic or information. I manually have to find which (hdX,Y) is the partition to look for grub, then specify all the necessary instructions to boot ubuntu.
BUT...
5. Cyclic login bug (successful login brings you back to login screen)...
I switched to shell mode and tried to fix things but failed. I can't even get grub2 to remember changes to the config. I give up, it must be some issue with 18.04 triggered by who knows what.
Ok, switch to 19.04, I have no linux available anymore so I download and create the USB booter under Windows 10. I had to reuse the original USB as that's the only one available. Reboot, get to the menu and select to Install Ubuntu (or check integrity, for that matters):
6. The installer won't start, all I get is:
[6.081653] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found
[6.081653] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming driver cache: write through
BusyBox v1.27.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.27.2-2ubuntu3) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs) mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on //filesystem.squashfs failed: Invalid argument
Can not mount /dev/loop0 (/cdrom/casper/filesystem.squashfs) on //filesystem.squashfs
I would argue having an easy to use and reliable installer is the first thing necessary. This brings me back to when I had to switch to other distros because 16.04 installer couldn't deal with my ultra wide screen... Except that was at least comprehensible. This time it's like a sensless nightmare.
Anybody got any clue on what to do?
P.S.
I tried again 18.04 from a windows made usb boot. Same result as 19.04. This means #6 has to do with the creation of the boot ubs from windows.
1. I create a USB installer while on linux, this partitions my pen leaving only 2 MB of the 8GB available as the FAT32 partition...
Why the need to partition in ext, and why 8 GB partition? Seems unneeded to me...
I proceed to install:
2. If I select "install together with 17.10" before touching the partitions the recap says it will modify sdb partition 7
3. If I select the option to replace the current install the recap says it will modify sdb partition 8
My primary partition is sdb2, my home is sdb3, my swap sdb4, then I have 2 windows big partitions. Why does the auto install tries to install on different partitions when it should use the same one for both replace and side-install? Why does it not specify properly which ones are those (is partition #7 sdb7)? Why does it try to install on a partition that is not the one where the current 17.10 is installed? To be fair, I'm not even sure if I had 8 paritions in total (and I can't check... keep reading).
The autoinstall clearly can't be trusted, so I'll do the usual manual install. Reformat primary, assign swap and specify the old /home to still be /home. Install succeeds, remove pen and reboot:
4. Grub2 doesn't load any graphic or information. I manually have to find which (hdX,Y) is the partition to look for grub, then specify all the necessary instructions to boot ubuntu.
BUT...
5. Cyclic login bug (successful login brings you back to login screen)...
I switched to shell mode and tried to fix things but failed. I can't even get grub2 to remember changes to the config. I give up, it must be some issue with 18.04 triggered by who knows what.
Ok, switch to 19.04, I have no linux available anymore so I download and create the USB booter under Windows 10. I had to reuse the original USB as that's the only one available. Reboot, get to the menu and select to Install Ubuntu (or check integrity, for that matters):
6. The installer won't start, all I get is:
[6.081653] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found
[6.081653] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming driver cache: write through
BusyBox v1.27.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.27.2-2ubuntu3) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs) mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on //filesystem.squashfs failed: Invalid argument
Can not mount /dev/loop0 (/cdrom/casper/filesystem.squashfs) on //filesystem.squashfs
I would argue having an easy to use and reliable installer is the first thing necessary. This brings me back to when I had to switch to other distros because 16.04 installer couldn't deal with my ultra wide screen... Except that was at least comprehensible. This time it's like a sensless nightmare.
Anybody got any clue on what to do?
P.S.
I tried again 18.04 from a windows made usb boot. Same result as 19.04. This means #6 has to do with the creation of the boot ubs from windows.