Stuck on spinning circle like this post. Attached photo below of the log behind that endless screen. Brain like a sieve and haven’t used linux in a minute, so please be kind but don’t assume I know any lingo or shorthand.
Try a USB-Stick instead of a microSD card. Booting from SD might work sometimes but it seems to try to treat it like a Superfloppy (at least that’s how I understand fd in this context) so neither MBR nor GPT and AFAIK SD cards don’t like partition schemes. I have many old laptops and I’ve tried SD to IDE adapters and it’s a big pain.
Thanks gentux – I’ve been trying to find a USB stick to do just that – finding a big enough one is the issue, haha. I use SD for everything else! Saw in this forum post that turning off secure boot got around the problem for some SD users.
Will update with progress in either case.
Update:
Turning off secure boot changed the errors I get, but still hung at “Get:5 file…”
Rolling back to 24.04.3 LTS (noble numbat) using Rufus on 8GB USB-A over Expansion slot 1 got me to the standard purple Ubuntu first setup screen.
Summary for others:
This is a DIY Framework 13 with Ryzen AI 340.
Delivered less than a week ago, all parts from framework except memory (Crucial 16GB 262-Pin DDR5 SO-DIMM DDR5 5600 – CT16G56C46S5)
Ubuntu 26.04 failed to boot from either USB or microSD.
Rolling back to Ubuntu 24.04.3 was the fix.
Wish I knew more about why the 13 is advertised for Ubuntu 26 when it does not boot. Oh well.
(Some errors flashed by I’m still trying to extract from the boot log. I saw one critical display failure. Will post up here if I can get that output to .txt.)
Any difference in the output with the correct image? Does that USB boot another machine? Did you try any boot parameters? Is there a dmesg like Alt+F12 with more info on Ubuntu?
I had trouble getting through setup all at once, with input (kb and click) freezing if I didn’t work fast enough. Reminds me of GRUB timeout issues on my last ubuntu (22) a few years ago…
Have not tried booting another machine, I’m tired of this today! Can follow up tomorrow, though.
I don’t know enough to fiddle with boot parameters – a little gunshy about that after nearly wrecking my last pc on dual boot. ACPI issues with the motherboard from covid-era supply chain issues borked me over, and I’m just scared to touch GRUB now, haha.
Can you tell me what you mean about dmesg and alt+F12?
In many distributions pressing Alt+F12 switches the screen to the console that shows the dmesg output. I’m not sure if Ubuntu does that, too. It might help in finding what is going wrong with 26.04. Seems odd that it wouldn’t boot.
You don’t have to do anything for me. We can just help you get your machine running. It’s all up to you what you are willing to do to get it to work with 26.04 or use it the way it works for you. Just let us know if we can help you.
So did it not boot at all with 26.04 or did you just see messages that sounded like an error but weren’t really? Because this happens all the time, usually nothing to worry about, the kernel tries something, finds out it’s not right, write an error message out and continue with its life, nothing to worry about as long as it then boots and works normally.
I got stuck on the exact same problem today. Ubuntu 26.04 won’t boot from the installation ISO. I tried different USB drives, different USB ports. I also tried the Ubuntu Daily Build ISO (because the official ISO is pretty old - from April). I end up with exactly the same thing as seen here in the screenshots.
Ubuntu 24.04 works without any problems, and so does Debian 13. Something must be wrong with the Ubuntu 26.04 installer.
Have you tried changing the VRAM allocation in BIOS? Reading this it seems possible that it has to do with GPU init? At least OP here seems to have the right Firmware version already.
Thanks, problem solved! You first need to update the BIOS using fwupdmgr on any working Linux (e.g., ubuntu 24.04). Then the Ubuntu 26.04 installation will work.
