Install (manual partitioning) in Xubuntu Desktop amd64 in Jammy Daily (archived)

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Boot up the image
If you see the GRUB boot menu you should see the following:
  • 'Try or Install Xubuntu'
  • 'Xubuntu (safe graphics)'
  • 'OEM install (for manufacturers)'
  • 'Test memory' (only on BIOS systems)
  • The system boots properly and loads the installer displaying the Welcome dialog with language selection and 'Try Xubuntu' and 'Install Xubuntu' buttons
    Click on the release notes hyperlink to confirm that a browser launches and you are taken to the release notes discourse page.
    Click on the Install Xubuntu button
    The 'Keyboard layout' screen appears
    The proposed keyboard corresponds with your keyboard
    Select your keyboard layout and click on Continue
    The 'Updates and other software' screen is displayed
    On the screen 'Updates and other software', note the availability of the following components
    Available options should represent the state of your system accurately
    • (If network is available) 'Download updates while installing Xubuntu'
    • (If on a 'laptop') 'Is plugged to a power source'
    • 'Install third-party software...' option available
    Click on the Continue button
    The 'Installation type' screen is displayed
    Select Something Else
    A screen showing the current hard disks and partition layouts is displayed
    Select the drive you wish to partition and use the Add '+', Change 'Change...', and Delete '-' buttons to create your desired scheme
    The screen updates showing your desired partitions and mount points
    Once you have your required partitioning scheme laid out, click on the Install Now button
    The 'Where are you?' screen is displayed
    If your system is connected to the network, note the preselected timezone corresponds with your timezone and the city indicated in the text box
    The timezone and city displayed match your timezone and a major city from your area
    Select your timezone, and click on the Continue button
    The 'Who are you?' screen appears
    Input your initial user details and password admin can not be used - it is a dedicated Linux User
    'Require my password to log in' is shown and selected or if 'Log in automatically' and 'require my password to log in' are shown then 'Require my password to login' is selected. If just 'Require my password to log in' is shown, having it off is the equivalent of having 'Log in automatically' on.
    Name, username and password are accepted.
    Continue button becomes available
    Press Continue
    The 'Welcome to Xubuntu' slide is displayed
    The slideshow is entirely in your language
    Wait for the installer to finish
    An 'Installation Complete' dialog appears
    Click the 'Restart Now' button
    GUI is shut down, a prompt to remove media and press Enter appears
    Remove the disc and press enter
    The machine is rebooted
    Allow the machine to reboot
    The system boots properly and loads into Xubuntu showing username selected

    If all actions produce the expected results described,
    please submit a 'passed' result.
    If any action fails, or produces an unexpected result,
    please submit a 'failed' result and file a bug. Please be sure to include
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    ReporterLast updateBugsComment
    Failedmlueck2022-02-28 07:30
    Xubuntu shutdown prompt is missing (#1944519)
    (master bug of duplicate: 1962466)
    In: casper (Ubuntu)
    Status: Triaged
    Importance: Medium
    Assignee:
    1 reports, 43 comments, 5 subscribers, 5 duplicates
    1962466
    gparted suggests mtools which is useful in a live environment (#1962467)
    In: gparted (Ubuntu)
    Status: New
    Importance: Undecided
    Assignee:
    1 reports, 6 comments, 1 subscribers, 0 duplicates
    1962467
    Jammy Live installer not producing booting gpt partition table / EFI
    partition hard drive installations (#1962470)

    In: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
    Status: New
    Importance: Undecided
    Assignee:
    1 reports, 10 comments, 1 subscribers, 0 duplicates
    1962470

    Greetings Xubuntu developers,

    Summary of defects:
    1) End of the Xubuntu LiveDVD system load, does not display text "Press any key to continue..." once the DVD is ejected. Instead, has a completely black screen. 1962466
    2) Gparted off the LiveDVD wants package mtools added in order to display EFI partition correctly. I hot added that, resolved the error message. 1962467
    3) Unable to get yesterday's daily DVD of Xubuntu to produce a system that boots from the internal drive. This one is critical. 1962470

    Details...

    I had not pulled a daily ISO since 2021-12-20. I applied about a month or so worth of updates all at once via Synaptic. I ended up loosing Nvidia display, it stalled, so I ended up having to force packages to finish applying once I could get video back via: sudo dpkg --configure -a

    Also I needed to switch to a non Debian / Ubuntu based distro on the test machine to prove out if an unrelated defect was coming from Debian / Ubuntu origins only. I needed to stick with something Xfce desktop based, so I selected Manjaro manjaro-xfce-21.2.2-220123-linux515.iso I had to install that several times in order to get it to boot from the hard disk. I finally had to have it do its own partitioning... not manually re-using the partitions Xubuntu had created.

    Coming back to yesterday's daily Xubuntu 22.04 ISO, I still cannot get the system to boot from the hard drive.

    I have the motherboard set to EFI boot mode.

    I have wiped the partitions again, this time with the Xubuntu daily DVD. As a first partition I create a 500 MB EFI partition. The rest of the drive I want as a XFS formatted / (root) partition.

    The load finishes, the installer ejects the DVD, it still does NOT display the text to press any key to restart the system (defect reported earlier by me), and then the system goes through the BIOS, lands at a black screen with blinking cursor, forever.

    I booted back off the Xubuntu installer DVD. I inspected the partitions with Gparted. That raised an error that it wanted the mtools p[package added to be able to interrogate the EFI partition properly. I exited GParted, added that via apt-get, restarted GParted, no more error. (Note to add that to the package configuration of the LiveCD mode.)

    The Xubuntu installer marked the EFI first partition only with flag msftdata. I added the flag boot, which also automatically added the esp flag, and removed the msftdata flag. I exited the LiveCD mode. The system still refuses to boot from the hard disk... after BIOS POST, just a blinking cursor in the top left corner on a black screen.

    Any suggestions, please?

    I am thankful,
    Michael Lueck

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