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Recent ubuntu desktop isos require extra boot args #121
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I'm super confused with all this 😅 I'm asking because I can boot both 22.04.3 and 23.10.1 desktop-amd64 just fine once shrunk to below 4GB. Am I missing something? |
There are three kinds of ubuntu images able to boot from loop:
22.04.3 is out of question because it was 23.04 the turning point [1] |
Okay, I've found my discussion on the matter in the maillist: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2023-June/019562.html Looking into initrd of 23.10 now I see they've added
That's why 23.10 desktop, as you see it now, can boot without |
Well, since 23.04 isn't an LTS release and 23.10 is out... is this a problem that needs to be addressed? I see a few different solutions:
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I'm just "reporting a bug" here! It is up to you |
Since 21.10 ubuntu live-server iso uses multi-layered squashes (compare contents of
/casper/
before and after 21.10). It doesnt affect anything because the images can boot without any kernel args. Ubuntu desktop uses the same multi-layered scheme since 23.04 but without explicitlayerfs-path=minimal.standard.live.squashfs
kernel arg it does not boot as supposed.Ubuntu flavours are likely to move towards the new installer as well, but not there yet (aside for Budgie) as of release 23.10.
Btw with 23.04 they've introduced
desktop-legacy
images which are based on the old installer.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: