I went through the process of getting a bootable microSD card with Ubuntu server on it for an XMPP project I am starting following this guide: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi#Booting_generic_arm64_ISO_images . However, I am not sure if this is due to me being completely new to Ubuntu, but I can not get it to boot. When I first start up my rpi, I get to a page where I have to press a key to stop the autobot after it detects usb devices and ethernet, with a command prompt page. Typing in boot brings me to the GNU GRUB version 2.02 page. In the section titled Booting and Installation, it says to use a boot parameter which I have no idea what to do with that. There are also a few more commands it has me do, one of which being set root=(hd1,msdos2). However, when I type in ls, I only see (memdisk) (hd0) (hd0,msdos1). The commands after that beginning with linux and initrd says that the command can't be found. When I attempt to boot it says that I need to load the kernel first. I apologize if this seems trivial. Any help is appreciated, thank you.
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When reading the instructions for the "Classic Ubuntu deb image" for the Raspberry Pi it states:
The Raspberry Pi 3 does not (yet) work with official Ubuntu images out of the box, but unofficial images are available.
and You are linking to the Booting generic arm64 ISO images.
Does that mean you downloaded the ubuntu-18.04.1-server-arm64.iso and followed all the instructions regarding:
- Create a partition with pi firmware/bootloader files
- Updating the Pi GPU firmware and bootloader files
- Compile U-boot
- Copy the device tree blob
- Copy the ISO contents to the FAT partition
- Booting and installation
I read thru those instruction and even if I have some expereince with Linux/Ubuntu did it not look easy.
When it comes to the boot parameter just look at Grub add boot parameter
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