I am trying to install Ubuntu 22 (actually Ubuntu-studio, I don't think that makes a difference)
on a a brand new Beelink computer from an ISO copied on a usb stick.
The computer came preinstalled with W11 (to my surprise, as it wasn't advertized as such), and I had already a hard time managing to boot
from USB stick.
I now have a bootable USB stick (made with Unetbootin) and I am able to boot from it.
So I get to the Grub (2.06) menu, select "Try or Install UbuntuStudio".
Next, after a couple of seconds, I get this screen (sorry for low quality):
Seems like a failure of initramfs
I now have a Busybox v1.30.1 shell, $ uname -a says it's a
5.19.0 kernel, but I don't know what I can do next.
As the message says
file does not fit into a 512-byte sector
I checked (with ls -l):
the file /cdrom/casper/filesystem.squashfs is... 4,294,967,295 bytes!
(so no wonder it does not fit!)
I read several similar posts on this, but no success
Could this issue be somewhat related to the infamous 4GB limit of FAT32 (my USB stick is indeed formated with FAT32)? But I always though that was mandatory to build bootable sticks.
Additional info:
- computer has a 500GB drive, and a AMD Ryzen 7 5800H
- I did check the iso hash, was fine (with
sha256sum)
- Some posts suggest to set SATA mode from IDE to AHCI.
Unfortunately, in the bios menu, I indeed have a "SATA configuration", but it is empty, no settings to change!
- BIOS: American Megatrends
- APTIO version 2.22.1282
Edit 2023-06-22
I tried same USB drive on another computer: I was able to boot on it, but after selecting the "try or install" choice: exact same issue.
So I believe it is not a hardware issue. I will try another USB drive.
