I have an older Dell Vostro 1000 that I have been running Ubuntu 18.04 on for a while. I kept getting 20.04 is available and ignored them until last week. I thought OK I'll give it a shot.

Went through the upgrade and on reboot got the ubuntu circle for a while and then nothing. Powered down, rebooted, nothing. OK I'll try to install 20.04 from scratch. I did take the precaution of mounting the drive on a slackware system and pulling my files before installing. Same result so I reinstalled 18.04 and got it back up and when it offered the 20.04 upgrade again, I did it again with same failure. This time I tried switching screens and got a text login and was able to log in but without the windows availability. Back to 18.04 and it's up and running but I thought I'd ask if anybody has any ideas. I seemed to remember trying this a number of years ago and being told the display was inadequate but since the updater was now pushing it I'd try. I am attaching the system info from the install on the Dell in case that helps anything.

Thanks for any insight

Cliff

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The display wouldn't be the issue, but the GPU might be. You haven't told us which that is though. inxi -GSaz --vs would if it was a recent inxi version. The inxi provided in 18.04 os a broken antique. If you wished you could get the latest directly from upstream here. If you do, you should purge the installed version. can provide some of the GPU info. It would have helped if you had collected some logs from the 20.04 installation try, such as /var/log/Xorg.0.log in particular.

Since Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian, you might give installation of a recent Debian a try. 12.5 is current, but 11.x is still supported. 20.04 support will only continue for about 12 more months.

2007! Hopefully ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 still supported.

Why not 22.04 (or lighter distro like MX)?