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I can't boot up Ubuntu from a USB 2.0 drive.

I burned Ubuntu 18.04, but I do not seem able to initialize it: I obtain (initramfs Unable to find a medium containing a live file system. I checked other posts, but I do not seem to be able to run Ubuntu. EDIT: nomodoset does not seem to work.

The errors shown at startup are here

Please help me out with this.

EDIT: Using Ubuntu 18.04, and nomodeset does not work. Using Ubuntu 19.10, with the safe graphics or nomodeset option does not work too.

EDIT 2: Problem solved. As pointed out in the comments, check the image with md5sum, and use a default tool, such as Ubuntu's Disk Creator to create the USB boot drive.

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  • askubuntu.com/a/1217381/925971 enable nomodeset before booting
    – Gryu
    Mar 17, 2020 at 22:22
  • @Gryu I've tried to do so, by adding nomodoset, after quiet splash, but it still doesn't work. I no longer get the Unable to find a medium containing a live file system, but I do get other errors. I've also tried the safe graphics option from the Ubuntu 19.10 image
    – raf
    Mar 18, 2020 at 11:13
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    SAFEST method probably would be: Take the disk out of the system. Buy a new disk. Install Ubuntu on that. Then run a recover program over the mounted partitions.
    – Rinzwind
    Mar 18, 2020 at 12:43
  • You don't say that you've enabled in your BIOS your USB drive as the default boot disk. Have you done that? Mar 18, 2020 at 12:54
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    @sudodus, thank you :) It was the way I was creating the USB boot drive. I used the default ubuntu Disk Creator, and it was fine.
    – raf
    Mar 19, 2020 at 13:12

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