Installing Ubuntu 20.04 Aspire 3

Spike210957

I am trying in install Ubuntu 20.04 on an Aspire 3.  It has turned into a war of attrition.  Initially I installed from the USB and found that the USB would not see the hard drive.  I then twigged that closing the lid and re-opening would allow the drive to be seen and installed Ubuntu using the other option and re partitioning the drive in the process.

However, whenever I restart I'm getting a "Initramfs unpacking failed and that the UUID  is not found (proc/cmdline has the correct UUID)

I have tried sudo update -initramfs -c -k $(uname -r).  I also tried a boot disk repairer results here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/wRT3NTkHZZ/

I am running out of ideas.  Thoughts anyone?

This is the Result of Fdisk

Disk /dev/loop0: 1.98 GiB, 2103640064 bytes, 4108672 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop1: 29.9 MiB, 31334400 bytes, 61200 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop2: 54.98 MiB, 57626624 bytes, 112552 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop3: 255.58 MiB, 267980800 bytes, 523400 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop4: 62.9 MiB, 65105920 bytes, 127160 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop5: 49.8 MiB, 52203520 bytes, 101960 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/sda: 7.22 GiB, 7747928064 bytes, 15132672 sectors
Disk model: STORE N GO     
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x03ceda9f

Device     Boot Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *     2048 15132671 15130624  7.2G  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)


Disk /dev/sdb: 931.53 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD10SPZX-21Z
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 3D022D1D-116D-44A6-9608-340678728F5C

Device       Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sdb1     2048      98303      96256   47M EFI System
/dev/sdb2  1050624 1953523280 1952472657  931G EFI System

JackE

Are you starting out with an empty ext4 GPT partitioned HDD? Or is Windows installed and you're trying to dual boot? BIOS must be in UEFI mode and AHCI sata mode.  Jack E/NJ

Spike210957

JackE said:

Are you starting out with an empty ext4 GPT partitioned HDD? Or is Windows installed and you're trying to dual boot? BIOS must be in UEFI mode and AHCI sata mode.  Jack E/NJ

The bios is in UEFI mode and AHCI sata mode.  The laptop came with Windows 10 installed but I have re-partitioned the drive so that it has SWAP, filesystem, EFI & HOME

When I boot I go to busybox but there are no error messages.

Spike210957

I have also disabled fast & secure boot

JackE

Are you trying to install alongside Win10? The only prep needed for the install is to shrink the Windows C : \ partition leaving the empty space unallocated. Then let the Ubuntu installation stick do it's job to set the unallocated space up the way you want. If you still have issues I suggest  that you install Mint Cinnamon 20.1 instead cuz it's setup is a lot more polished than many of the other distros. Mint is all I use now on all my machines.   Jack E/NJ

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