I have a dual booted laptop (HP Z book Studio G3). I have been using Ubuntu 20.04 without big issues for the past years. I now want to upgrade with a fresh install to Ubuntu 24.04.
I created a live USB, but whenever I start my laptop with the live USB inserted the screen stays black. To be clear: I cannot access any menu, BIOS, grub (at least I not know how)
I have tested this live USB on my desktop*, and it works there (I booted into Ubuntu from the live USB). Even stranger: I found the USB that I used to install Ubuntu20.04, and that works just fine on my laptop! I was able to boot into Ubuntu from that USB.
Does anybody know what can cause this and how to solve it? I did update my BIOS to the most recent version (1.61)
Any help will be appreciated! Although it is very late now, so I will respond in ~8 hours
*Desktop is an "Extreme Gamer Classic level 2 Light"
Edit 1: inspecting both USBs with gparted
I have inspected both live USBs with gparted (after umounting as described below). The result for the working live USB is this:
The result for the USB that does not work is this:
Essentially, I do not see any difference besides the name, UUID and size of the USBs. Let me know if I did anything incorrectly!
Edit 2: Ubuntu Mini
Using Ubuntu mini (from the question linked by @karel in the comment) worked for me! Unfortunately my mouse did not work, and when I attempted to fix it by using apt get update && apt get upgrade the system crashed. From my understanding, Ubuntu Mini runs on RAM, so I guess that apt get update overflowed the RAM causing the system to crash.
Solution
During the process described at Edit 2, I noticed that Ubuntu Mini took quite some time to load the boot menu (a few minutes). This was unexpected for me - the file is only 89MB. Therefore, I thought maybe the USB works but is just very slow. I flashed it with the regular Ubuntu 24 iso again. I decided to wait for a longer time this time, and when I came back after 2 hours or so Ubuntu 24 was ready to go. From there, I could easily run the installer and now everything works! :)
Big thanks to the commenters, I would have given up it wasn't for them, special thanks to karel whose comment worked and led to the final fix (although the final fix was just to be patient...)
