Ubuntu
usb-creator package

  1. Bug #1905491
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 1905491

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Nav (navipe) wrote :

Ubuntu version: 20.10 Groovy Gorilla.
PC motherboard: Gigabyte 880GM-USB3 (rev3.1).
The problem: Using Ubuntu's startup disk creator, I created an image of Groovy Gorilla's ISO onto a pen drive (formatted with NTFS). I booted from the pen drive and am shown an error: "cannot find grub_platform". Then I'm presented with a blank screen with a blinking cursor at the top left corner of the screen. It remains stuck at that.
Someone else who experienced this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1288476/can-not-install-from-usb-with-error-cannot-find-grub-platform/1335403.

Solution: As pdecat mentioned, converting GPT to MBR helps.

Why this needs fixing: Not everyone uses a modern PC with UEFI support. Just as in this bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shim/+bug/1867092/comments/28), all sub-versions of Ubuntu 20 and above, need to be patched to have some kind of legacy support. Not all users would have sufficient tech knowledge to search and find this solution.