Canonical has re-released the Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS desktop images today due to an installation
bug that could render OEM installations unbootable.
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A couple of days ago, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution informed
users on Twitter that the ISO images of the Desktop flavor of its recently released Ubuntu
20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa) are affected by a bug causing OEM installations via the Ubiquity
installer to fail to boot due to missing kernel. As a reminder, Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS comes with
updated kernel and graphics stacks backported from the more recent Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy
Gorilla) operating system series. As such, this Focal Fossa point release is powered
by the Linux 5.8 kernel and Mesa 20.3 graphics stack. According to the Launchpad entry of
this bug, only certain machines were affected and it happened when networking was enabled,
which means that if you did an offline installation everything worked fine. “Shortly after the
release of Ubuntu 20.04.2, on Thursday February 4 2021, a regression was discovered which
means that on certain systems and under certain specific conditions the Ubuntu installer can
fail to install a Linux kernel. This renders the system unable to boot,” said Canonical.
This is another example why Canonical needs to revamp its Ubiquity installer on Ubuntu
Desktop images. Since Canonical is such a big company, it cannot take any chances to
leave a buggy major release in the wild, so today they’ve re-spun the ISO images for
Ubuntu Desktop and any official flavor using the Ubiquity installer, including Xubuntu,
Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, and Ubuntu Kylin. Lubuntu isn’t affected
by this issues as it uses the Calamares universal installer framework for Linux. Kubuntu is
also using the Calamares installer, but it looks like they re-spun the 20.04.2 image
anyway. Without any further ado, you can download the new ISO images, tagged with version 20.04.2.0,
using the direct download links below if you plan on reinstalling or installing Ubuntu
20.04.2 LTS (or any of the other flavors) on a new computer. Existing users aren’t
affected by this issue.
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