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I downloaded the ubuntu 20.04.1 ISO & used rufus (3.12) to burn it to a usb drive. Everything was going great, until I finally booted from the drive, but then, it froze right after the "checking disk" was done. It didn't even get to it's install gui. It just froze until I shut my pc off. I didn't tweak the bios at all before attempting to install. Any way I can fix this? I don't want to be stuck with Windows!

My machine is the Acer Aspire 3 (I haven't heard great things about linux compatibility with this laptop). CPU: AMD ryzen 5 35000U, GPU: Radeon Vega mobile

salt shaker
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  • Two possible workarounds are to skip the optional disk checking or to use the text only Ubuntu 20.04 installer: Bootable USB of Ubuntu Minimal CD – karel Oct 27 '20 at 15:47
  • How do I disable disk checking? – salt shaker Oct 27 '20 at 16:02
  • When you see a message in white text on a black screen that the Ubuntu installer has started disk checking there is a Press Ctrl+C to cancel all filesystem checks in progress message at the bottom of the screen that tells you how to stop the disk checking and continue on to the next step of the installation process. – karel Oct 27 '20 at 16:09
  • Are there any potential side-effects with that approach? – salt shaker Oct 27 '20 at 16:25
  • There are no potential side effects with that approach. Please consider the case of a user who made a partitioning error in the Ubuntu installation and had to immediately reinstall. Clearly in such a case the user wouldn't need to repeat the same disk check that was done only 30 minutes before, so the user would press Ctrl+C to quit it. – karel Oct 27 '20 at 16:27
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    I am having the exact same issue. I don't see an option for Install Ubuntu, instead there is just two options Ubuntu and Ubuntu safe mode. Both the optiona goes to a checkdisk screen and stalls after checkdisk status reach 100%. I also tried skipping the checkdisk. But then it freezes again. Please help. – Nisar P Jun 23 '21 at 17:18

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