Ubuntu 18 live disk "Try" results in errors

**alfonso5** · August 21st, 2019

I have a new computer and wanted to install Ubuntu. I put it on a flash drive:
1/ flash drive works OK on my old computer - nothing wrong there.
2/ New computer - it gets to "Try Ubuntu" "Install"
3/ If I select "Try" I get error messages continuously scrolling down the screen too quickly to read.
4/ I tried a couple of other Ubuntu derived operating systems which I had to hand - same result.
5 Tried Manjaro that worked both on "try without installing" and it installed - apparently nothing wrong with the computer.

Obviously it would help if I knew what the error message(s) say(s) but I don't know a way of stopping it scrolling.

Help would be appreciated

**TheFu** · August 21st, 2019

Does any other TTY work?
Change to different TTYs using <cntl><alt>-F1, <cntl><alt>-F2, <cntl><alt>-F3, .... get back to the default using <cntl><alt>-F7

**alfonso5** · August 21st, 2019

Don't understand the answer. What is TTY?
at what point in the sequence would I use the key combinations you mention?

**oldfred** · August 21st, 2019

Teleprinter, also called a teletypewriter (TTY) back in history when Unix was created, long before Linux emulated most of Unix. Now just the terminal mode.

What brand/model system?
What video card chip?

Old computer probably was BIOS, but new computer is UEFI and you need to be sure to boot in UEFI mode.
Shows installer with screen shots. Both BIOS purple accessibility screen & UEFI black grub menu screen
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI

**crip720** · August 21st, 2019

Ubuntu seems to not like your computer as is. If you can give make/model and cpu/gpu, hopefully someone here might know the fix.

**alfonso5** · August 21st, 2019

The computer is custom built by a company called CCL who sell computers without windows installed for £100 less than the same thing with Windows 10. At the moment I have Manjaro loaded and got this information from the teminal cammand: I don't know if that tells you anything.

Code:

$ inxi -Fxxxza
System:
  Host: john-ccl Kernel: 4.19.66-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
  v: 9.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19-x86_64 
  root=UUID=67930aa8-3bf0-4dee-9d80-09de0ba2d45d rw quiet 
  Desktop: Gnome 3.32.2 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 3.32.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B360M H v: x.x serial: <filter> 
  UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: F12 date: 03/14/2019 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium Gold G5400 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10) 
  microcode: B4 L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 29576 
  Speed: 3700 MHz min/max: 800/3700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3700 2: 3700 
  3: 3700 4: 3700 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel vendor: Gigabyte driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
  chip ID: 8086:3e90 
  Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.5 driver: intel unloaded: modesetting 
  alternate: fbdev,vesa compositor: gnome-shell 
  resolution: <xdpyinfo missing> 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel UHD Graphics 610 (Coffeelake 2x6 GT1) 
  v: 4.5 Mesa 19.1.4 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Gigabyte 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a348 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.66-1-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8168 v: 8.047.02-NAPI port: 4000 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 
  IF: enp1s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8192EE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter 
  driver: rtl8192ee v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:818b 
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.35 TiB used: 27.57 GiB (2.0%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Gigabyte model: GP-GSTFS31480GNTD size: 447.13 GiB 
  block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  serial: <filter> rev: 61.3 scheme: MBR 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM010-2EP102 size: 931.51 GiB 
  block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: CC43 scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 447.13 GiB size: 439.11 GiB (98.21%) 
  used: 27.57 GiB (6.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: 27.8 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 198 Uptime: 1h 14m Memory: 3.72 GiB used: 1.21 GiB (32.6%) 
  Init: systemd v: 242 Compilers: gcc: N/A Shell: bash v: 5.0.7 
  running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.35

**oldfred** · August 21st, 2019

It shows you have f12 UEFI, and an update to f15 is available. I would update that first.
https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherbo...upport-dl-bios

You may need some settings in UEFI. Note that UEFI update, may restore defaults.
Turn off UEFI secure boot, may be called "Windows" or "Other" where "Other" is for Windows 7 as it does not support UEFI Secure Boot.
Drives need to be AHCI, not Intel SRT nor RAID.
You should have UEFI fast start up off, at least until system fully configured.
You may have to turn on allow USB boot, but if able to boot Manjaro then that may already be allowed.
Some Gigabyte boards need grub boot parameters, but most of those are AMD chip based, not Intel.

**alfonso5** · August 22nd, 2019

I have photographed the screen with the errors and while I can't read the start of the line it says
.................. PCIe Bus Error : severity = Corrected, type physical layer, id=00e7(Receiver ID)
With the occasional line
.................. ^^device [8086:a33f],,error status/mask=00000001/00002000
I found this on line
https://askubuntu.com/questions/7718...rity-corrected
which seems to be a similar problem but I don't see how I can make the changes to Grub suggested when booting from a "live disk" (flash memory) when I can't get past "Try Ubuntu".
Suggestions would be welcome.