04-29-2020, 03:02 PM
I attempted to install this RC on my 32bit UEFI Lenovo 100S which has been problematic with previous versions.
Balena Etcher (v1.5.81 portable on Windows 7) failed to produce a bootable USB stick from the ISO :-(. Showed "ubuntu" twice in the F12 boot menu but both items booted the existing 4.8 install. Insult was added to the disappointment by the size of the download...
Rufus (v3.10 portable on Windows 7, default options) produced a USB drive that showed up as something like "USB UEFI Mass Storage" (didn't write down the exact text) in the F12 boot menu, which when selected booted up to the live environment from the USB drive (so the 32bit UEFI worked! Yay!). Started installation and that went all the way through until a failure to grub-update the internal eMMC drive was reported. I had selected to manually manage partitions so as not to disturb the existing partitioning arrangement (the ext4 & swap partitions were set for reformatting however reformatting the UEFI System partition was not offered as an option) so this may have contributed to the failure. After the grub-update failure message a window was displayed indicating that a problem report would be submitted said window was closed, however that window could not be closed. I didn't have any network connected when this happened but after plugging in a USB to ethernet adapter (TP-Link UE-300 which has worked for previous LL installs) the situation didn't improve (not that I really expected it to). I rebooted, getting the expected message to remove the installation medium, and arrived at the minimal GRUB prompt. I won't have time until next weekend to try again (this device at the moment is a test hack not a daily driver, so resolution not urgent).
NB: Rufus detected a version discrepancy with several SysLinux files between what it had available and what was used in the ISO and requested permission to download the matching files - when approved the download proceeded and writing the flash image commenced.
Bonus outcome from this RC: this notebook's keyboard and touchpad both worked with the live environment without any fiddles = a huge advance from 4.x!
Incidentally my ISP's routing to OSDN resulted in a download speed averaging only about 100kB/s and it failed to complete several times
- fortunately Firefox (Win7) was able to resume the download each time and the final ISO passed the hash check. This is worse than other recent OSDN downloads I've had which averaged 200-250kB/s (still not great, but at least those downloads - of similar size - succeeded).
Balena Etcher (v1.5.81 portable on Windows 7) failed to produce a bootable USB stick from the ISO :-(. Showed "ubuntu" twice in the F12 boot menu but both items booted the existing 4.8 install. Insult was added to the disappointment by the size of the download...
Rufus (v3.10 portable on Windows 7, default options) produced a USB drive that showed up as something like "USB UEFI Mass Storage" (didn't write down the exact text) in the F12 boot menu, which when selected booted up to the live environment from the USB drive (so the 32bit UEFI worked! Yay!). Started installation and that went all the way through until a failure to grub-update the internal eMMC drive was reported. I had selected to manually manage partitions so as not to disturb the existing partitioning arrangement (the ext4 & swap partitions were set for reformatting however reformatting the UEFI System partition was not offered as an option) so this may have contributed to the failure. After the grub-update failure message a window was displayed indicating that a problem report would be submitted said window was closed, however that window could not be closed. I didn't have any network connected when this happened but after plugging in a USB to ethernet adapter (TP-Link UE-300 which has worked for previous LL installs) the situation didn't improve (not that I really expected it to). I rebooted, getting the expected message to remove the installation medium, and arrived at the minimal GRUB prompt. I won't have time until next weekend to try again (this device at the moment is a test hack not a daily driver, so resolution not urgent).
NB: Rufus detected a version discrepancy with several SysLinux files between what it had available and what was used in the ISO and requested permission to download the matching files - when approved the download proceeded and writing the flash image commenced.
Bonus outcome from this RC: this notebook's keyboard and touchpad both worked with the live environment without any fiddles = a huge advance from 4.x!
Incidentally my ISP's routing to OSDN resulted in a download speed averaging only about 100kB/s and it failed to complete several times
- fortunately Firefox (Win7) was able to resume the download each time and the final ISO passed the hash check. This is worse than other recent OSDN downloads I've had which averaged 200-250kB/s (still not great, but at least those downloads - of similar size - succeeded).