Ubuntu 24.04 install issues

[Sant_HH]

Asking for a friend here,

He is trying to install Ubuntu 24.04 onto his laptop but is encountering this error

He has asked me for advice but honestly I have no idea what this error means. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

His laptop is an ASUS ROG Strix GL503V

[Haswellx86]

Not exactly sure because the whole error is not shown.

 

It seems that the installation is still going. What happens next? Does it still install or what?

 

I have a feeling its some drive related issue. Could be a case where the install media might be corrupted. First, your friend should try restarting the installation again if not done already, and if the issue still persists, try re-downloading, or at least, re-flashing the ISO to their storage media.

 

Is your friend installing it on a separate drive? Can you make sure that the drive works fine?

[Sant_HH]

47 minutes ago, Haswellx86 said:

Not exactly sure because the whole error is not shown.

 

It seems that the installation is still going. What happens next? Does it still install or what?

 

I have a feeling its some drive related issue. Could be a case where the install media might be corrupted. First, your friend should try restarting the installation again if not done already, and if the issue still persists, try re-downloading, or at least, re-flashing the ISO to their storage media.

 

Is your friend installing it on a separate drive? Can you make sure that the drive works fine?

So he flashed the install media using dd (probably messed up some options) and now the flash drive is stuck in read-only and he can't write to it. Is there an easy way to fix this preferably with windows (he is not that familiar with Linux)

[Haswellx86]

42 minutes ago, Sant_HH said:

So he flashed the install media using dd

Don't. ISOs are complicated. Compression and file systems aren't straightforward. Tell your friend to use programs like Balena Etcher, or Rufus on Windows.

[BoomerDutch]

1 hour ago, Sant_HH said:

Asking for a friend here,

He is trying to install Ubuntu 24.04 onto his laptop but is encountering this error

He has asked me for advice but honestly I have no idea what this error means. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

His laptop is an ASUS ROG Strix GL503V

Well error means partition of root is suddely missing, if i geussed correctly ubuntu cannot format your disk drive for some reason.

[BoomerDutch]

1 hour ago, Sant_HH said:

So he flashed the install media using dd (probably messed up some options) and now the flash drive is stuck in read-only and he can't write to it. Is there an easy way to fix this preferably with windows (he is not that familiar with Linux)

DD is best used for .img files not iso.

Well rare cases some do work.

[Sant_HH]

3 hours ago, Haswellx86 said:

Not exactly sure because the whole error is not shown.

 

It seems that the installation is still going. What happens next? Does it still install or what?

 

I have a feeling its some drive related issue. Could be a case where the install media might be corrupted. First, your friend should try restarting the installation again if not done already, and if the issue still persists, try re-downloading, or at least, re-flashing the ISO to their storage media.

 

Is your friend installing it on a separate drive? Can you make sure that the drive works fine?

The install media is probably bad as the USB drive seems to have issues

 

Now waiting for a new USB drive to show up in the mail.

1 hour ago, BoomerDutch said:

Well error means partition of root is suddely missing, if i geussed correctly ubuntu cannot format your disk drive for some reason.

I'll have him try to format the drive using some sort of rescue utility

[scrumptious starfruit]

It does sound like a flash drive problem - when they get old, one of the symptoms can be that they become read only. Ubuntu isos are hybrid isos so using dd is fine - further info at this ubuntu community wiki page. That said, if you're a beginner and/or not the kind of person who pays close attention to details, dd is easy to get wrong and have catastrophic results so another tool is perhaps better. Ubuntu has a tutorial for rufus.