Ubuntu Bootable USB stick: The “elusive” 😂 “Try or Install Ubuntu” option...
My Ubuntu 22.10 no longer booted. I tried to do a reinstallation using the original bootable USB stick, but there was no “Try or Install Ubuntu” option. The BIOS USB 3.0 option setting seems to affect this behaviour.
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| Ubuntu Bootable USB stick: The “elusive” 😂 “Try or Install Ubuntu” option… |
Back in December, 2022, my first Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) installation went smoothly.
The machine I installed it to is my old laptop, an HP Pavilion 15 Notebook PC,
its Born On Date is 04/October/2014, the original OS was
Windows 8.1. All USB ports are USB 2.0. The Ubuntu bootable USB stick I use is also
USB 2.0, I purposely selected USB 2.0 for bootable USB stick.
I scrapped Windows 8.1, installing only Ubuntu 22.10.
In the laptop BIOS, I changed the boot order, moved
USB Diskette on Key/USB Hard Disk as the first option:
Inserted the bootable USB stick and rebooted the machine. From thence on, just followed the instructions in the official document Install Ubuntu desktop.
Third week of May, 2023; while experimenting with some configurations,
I installed SELinux – which damaged my Ubuntu 22.10.
(SELinux is no longer for Ubuntu 22.10, do not install it).
After this, when booted up, it just displayed the GRUB menu,
I can’t work it out. So I decided that it is simpler just to reinstall.
I change BIOS boot option as before, using the same bootable USB stick…
There was no Try or Install Ubuntu option! The available
options are:
Neither of those four (4) available options helps.
After a few hours of searching, I came across a post discussing a similar
issue, whereby the author has a single sentence which mentions that if
there is a USB 3.0 option in the BIOS, it should be set to Auto.
Focusing on getting my problem addressed, I forgot to write down the URL of
the post, I could not find it for reference in this post, I do apologise
for that.
In my laptop BIOS, there is an USB3.0 Configuration in Pre-OS
and it was set to Enabled: this is the default setting,
it was like this the first time I installed Ubuntu 20.10:
I do not know why it worked at the first time! I set it to Auto:
This time, it does have the Try or Install Ubuntu option:
I am in the dark as to why it is like this… But that’s how it is.
Afterward, I went to the BIOS again, set the first boot option to
OS boot Manager.
That’s about it for this post. Thank you for reading. I do hope someone will find this post useful. Stay safe as always.