I want to install Ubuntu 24.02 (Noble) on a Raspberry Pi 5 which has an M.2 HAT with a 1TB SSD. HOWEVER, I don't want it to use the whole Terabyte, I just want it on one of at least 3 partitions already on the SSD.
Here's what I tried to do:
1. I partitioned the SSD using Gnu parted with: a 100MB FAT boot-partition, a 100GB NTFS partition for later experimentation with Windows on Pi, a 100GB ext4 partition where I want to put Noble Numbat, and then some other experimental partitions for stuff like FreeBSD, etc. I used mkfs to format the boot, Windows and ext4 partitions.
2. From https://ubuntu.com/download/raspberry-pi I downloaded:
ubuntu-24.04-preinstalled-server-arm64+raspi.img.xz
(and later with ubuntu-24.04-preinstalled-desktop-arm64+raspi.img.xz)
3. I used Balena Etcher to the image to a 32GB USB.
4. I booted my RPi5 from an SD with Raspberry Pi OS and used rpi-eeprom-update to set the boot order to try the USB first. (BOOT_ORDER=0xf614).
5. I shutdown, then inserted the USB with the install image, removed the SD card, then rebooted the Pi5 from the USB.
6. Noble Numbat booted to a login prompt, but did not offer to install to the SSD. I could login as ubuntu.
6a When I tried the same with the preinstalled-desktop image, it asked for language, keyboard, time-zone, and I think WiFi, but did not offer to install to SSD. It appeared to just finalise an install on the USB. After re-boot, with the USB still inserted, the desktop starts but even after half an hour does not go beyond a spinning icon on a blank Noble Numbat desktop image.
QUESTIONS:
Q1. Should I be using a different install image? From whence should I fetch it?
Q2. Is there some way to use either of the USB install images I already tried (above), to then push an install onto the USB, i.e. to somehow invoke Ubiquity? Are there instructions to do this somewhere?
Q3. Did I mess up in my initial SSD setup? Perhaps failed in install Grub?
Here's what I tried to do:
1. I partitioned the SSD using Gnu parted with: a 100MB FAT boot-partition, a 100GB NTFS partition for later experimentation with Windows on Pi, a 100GB ext4 partition where I want to put Noble Numbat, and then some other experimental partitions for stuff like FreeBSD, etc. I used mkfs to format the boot, Windows and ext4 partitions.
2. From https://ubuntu.com/download/raspberry-pi I downloaded:
ubuntu-24.04-preinstalled-server-arm64+raspi.img.xz
(and later with ubuntu-24.04-preinstalled-desktop-arm64+raspi.img.xz)
3. I used Balena Etcher to the image to a 32GB USB.
4. I booted my RPi5 from an SD with Raspberry Pi OS and used rpi-eeprom-update to set the boot order to try the USB first. (BOOT_ORDER=0xf614).
5. I shutdown, then inserted the USB with the install image, removed the SD card, then rebooted the Pi5 from the USB.
6. Noble Numbat booted to a login prompt, but did not offer to install to the SSD. I could login as ubuntu.
6a When I tried the same with the preinstalled-desktop image, it asked for language, keyboard, time-zone, and I think WiFi, but did not offer to install to SSD. It appeared to just finalise an install on the USB. After re-boot, with the USB still inserted, the desktop starts but even after half an hour does not go beyond a spinning icon on a blank Noble Numbat desktop image.
QUESTIONS:
Q1. Should I be using a different install image? From whence should I fetch it?
Q2. Is there some way to use either of the USB install images I already tried (above), to then push an install onto the USB, i.e. to somehow invoke Ubiquity? Are there instructions to do this somewhere?
Q3. Did I mess up in my initial SSD setup? Perhaps failed in install Grub?
Statistics: Posted by mdofperth — Wed May 08, 2024 4:56 am — Replies 0 — Views 10