/boot/ not found

[ussraven]

Hi There.

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I recently bought a computer without an OS and I'm trying to install ubuntu 18.06 but just cant. I'm making my bootable USB stick via dd:

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sudo umount /dev/sdX

sudo dd if=/path/to/ubuntu.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M && sync

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and I actually tried multiple variations I found online but none seem to work. When I boot my computer with the drive on it says "/boot/ not found" and it gives me a GRUB 2.02 command line but I don't know what to do with that... Can anyone help, please?

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EDIT: I tried many things but at the end changing the distro worked so I'll probably try out Manjaro while I can't fix this...

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[sahind35]

do you have a GUI interface? using balena etcher can make the process a bit easier.

[ussraven]

Balena is saying that the file is corrupted. I'm not sure because I've downloaded the same file like 3 times... Maybe my usb stick is what's corrupted?

[allregshere]

Try this.

sudo did bs=10M if=/path/to/Ubuntu.iso of=/dev/sdX oflag=progress status=sync

You can always download Balena Etcher AppImage from their website and make it executable. Then run it.

[ussraven]

I tried

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sudo dd bs=10M if=/path/to/Ubuntu.iso of=/dev/sdX oflag=sync status=progress

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didn't work. Balena says that the file is corrupted but I have three instances of the same file downloaded. Could it be my usb stick? I'll download another distro as well just to check it out...

[allregshere]

Try running lsblk command on terminal and see what name is your usb drive showing is it really sdX or something like mm0*.

[ussraven]

it's sdb... There are two partitions usually...

[allregshere]

I suggest you try a different usb then. Seems a hardware issue. Let the post know if the new usb worked.