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I'm doing something wrong but I don't know what ... please help.

Booting from DVD. Installer tells me to use GPT and create an 8MB unformatted partition for Grub. Label Grub, Flags: bios-group.

Next I want my home folder, I give it 25GB, ext4, Mount point /home, Label Me, Flags nothing.

166 GB, ext 4, Label Root, Mount Point /, Flags nothing

37925 MB linuxswap, Flags swap

Everything seems to install OK but when I try to start from the HD the Boot Menu keeps coming back.

Something's wrong but what?? Thanks in advance should someone choose to chime in ...

ClausRogge
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  • Oops sorry ... it's Ubuntu Studio 22.04 and uses calamares. I didn't check my ISO and I wanted to use a USB Stick but for some reason, my machine (Lenovo ThinkPad W520) wouldn't recognize it for installation – ClausRogge Dec 17 '22 at 06:39
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    Is your machine using BIOS/legacy/CSM to boot, or uEFI/Secure-uEFI. If using uEFI you need the ESP (EFI System Partition) which the warning tells you (and it's not for GRUB, but /boot/efi/). No ESP is required if using BIOS/legacy/CSM but you may still get a warning that it may not boot (it can be ignored in this case though). I'll provide a link to an answer you might want to look at - https://askubuntu.com/questions/1273421/lubuntu-installer-giving-error-after-partition-creation-your-system-may-or-may/1276789#1276789 but I'd probably be more careful with wording if written today. – guiverc Dec 17 '22 at 06:48
  • Additional detail: As stated (in now deleted comment), Ubuntu 20.10 and later are not expected to be installed from optical media (ie. DVD or CD), and problems can be expected. That media is slower & timeouts can occur regularly that get misinterpreted by the installer as other issues... These issues however will show during the installation as problems, which is not what you describe - so you may not have experienced this (many QA test installs were successful with optical media; but when re-tried a number of times, failures were experienced too using the same identical hardware) – guiverc Dec 17 '22 at 06:53
  • I have to say I don't know ... I get into the BIOS and "enable F12 for boot" and that's when I select either HD or DVD. I tried to "use whole Disk for Linux" without partitioning and thought my troubles came from that – ClausRogge Dec 17 '22 at 07:08
  • I don't know your device (and haven't looked if BIOS or uEFI - but your firmware settings can control how your actual box boots so you'd need to look yourself probably), but suggest you follow the link I provided with ESP (I've since edit & removed some references that annoyed me). Ubuntu Studio 22.04 used a different calamares to Ubuntu Studio 22.04.1, but you said 22.04. Lubuntu & Ubuntu Studio share the calamares (our 22.04.1 checklist can be seen here where it mentions only Lubuntu but following bug link will show US) – guiverc Dec 17 '22 at 07:19
  • Does this answer your question? Lubuntu Installer Giving Error after Partition creation "YOUR SYSTEM MAY OR MAY NOT BOOT " – guiverc Dec 17 '22 at 07:19
  • Thank you for your answers! I'll read those and see if I'm as smart as I thought I was when I decided to do install this way ... – ClausRogge Dec 17 '22 at 07:23
  • If your machine is setup to use BIOS/legacy/CSM boot, you don't need an ESP. If however your machine boots using uEFI or Secure-uEFI you'll find the install works, but it fails to boot post-install (how this shows varies on box; some say NO OS FOUND, others NO BOOTABLE MEDIA FOUND or other like messages, some ask you to PRESS A KEY TO TRY BOOTING AGAIN etc.. ie. your firmware dictates how it shows - but this maybe I suspect what you're experiencing) – guiverc Dec 17 '22 at 07:25
  • Seems I have a hardware problem ... thanks for your help but a different machine responds to this USB Stick. My bad, I always think I'm the one at fault but this time (for once!) I was innocent! – ClausRogge Dec 18 '22 at 12:21
  • I'll provide some FYI links given your last comment; I'm involved with QA thus write ISOs a lot to thumb-drives & experience loads of issues as a result... Checks are always worth it, first ISO validation - https://askubuntu.com/questions/993407/is-verifying-isos-downloaded-from-the-official-website-worthwhile/993409#993409 (read the accepted answer), then please read the Media Checks answer I added to it (for purposes such as this... ie. I switch to a text terminal & can quickly detect if problems have occurred or if they show clean - hardware is where I look next) – guiverc Dec 18 '22 at 21:40

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