Installation direct from usb for 20.04 problems

[Eric Cherriman]

Dell Inspiron 1501 amd64 4gb memory Ubuntu 20.04.1

I had tried Ub 20.04 before so just went straight to the install from the usb boot.

I lost my wired connection and the wifi does not work until b43 install is done. However, when I connected my mobile via USB, the wired connection appeared.

Completed the install and included the download external drivers etc.

When I rebooted, I got the "Oh no. Something has gone wrong" with the log in or out (can't remember which). Tabbed to it because the mouse wasn't working and entered and after a while it returned to the Oh no screen. Couldn't find a way to resolve this so did a hard reboot.

I think but I'm not certain that this caused a lock problem with the SSD because when I tried to use Windows, it reported a disk problem, started to do dskchk but reported it couldn't continue because it couldn't write boot sector.

Eventually fixed that problem.

Next time, I "Tried" Ubuntu before installing. I don't remember exactly what I did but I changed mouse behaviour and appearance of the desktop. Installed again and it worked fine (did not lose the wired ethernet connection).

I don't expect anything to be done about this but decided to report the bug in case it sheds light on any other problems. Sorry I didn't do a complete log of what I did but I was trying anything to make my system work !

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-41.46~20.04.1-generic 5.8.18
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-41-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.4
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Jan 31 11:31:00 2021
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed initrd=/casper/initrd quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-01-30 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Symptom: installation
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)