Cant ubgrade to ubuntu 18 or above Fio error

Open the BIOS during computer startup (press and hold either F2 or F10 or F12. Go to the Security section Disable Secure Boot and Fast or Quick Boot. Go to the Boot Order and make USB the first in the Boot Order. Insert the OS on a flash drive in the USB. Select Save and Exit in the BIOS. Computer will restart. You will see the OS on the flash drive start.

Is the system a dual boot or is Ubuntu the only OS on the system?

The system is dual boot ( Ubuntu 16.04 and windows 7 However I recently
found out that windows do not seem to be working.

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Thank you Bernard
I did disable the fast boot however could not disable Secure boot.
There is a non accessible menu under the bios security tab that accepts no modifications .
https://photos.app.goo.gl/nRsEcRoynE2g9AoN7
How can that be solved?

Did you try highlighting (Security Chip) TPM Enabled and press Enter change status to Disable. Save (Trusted Platform Module) Secure Boot should be the same way. Highlight the entry - press enter - up and down keys to change to disable enter again to select entry, navigate to different selection Esc key. Save and Exit after you are done.
Did you change the Boot Order to 1st-USB 2nd-HDD 3rd-Network ? If you did it should run the USB you have your choice of Linux to install on it. Are you saving the out of date windows 7? Or starting over with a new install.

I tried to change the TMP sttings but the security tab doesnät get highlighted. It makes a beep instead showing that this item cant be activated.
Boot order is ok ,

Please can someone help on that one?

Help with what?
Disabling secure boot or upgrading to a higher release?
What is the status of your system, can you boot Ubuntu and Windows? Which Ubuntu release do you currently have?

Details please.....

Thank you Manfred

I am working on Ubuntu 16 32 bit and the system is on single boot. The
laptop suports 64bit .

Disabling the secure boot looks like is getting on the way for upgrading.
But the bios don't seem to accept to disable secure boot.
The end purpose is to upgrade to Ubuntu 20 or something like that. Have
any ideas?

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Secure boot is trash

I suggest you simply disable secure boot, wipe the install off and do a clean install of Focal (Ubuntu 20.04). Foxal is LTS and supported until April 2025. You can restore your user data from your backups

You cannot upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 32 bit to Ubuntu 20.04 64 bit.
This requires a new installation.

@actionparsnip
I cant disable the secure boot, from the bios menu that seems to be the problem I am seeking to do a new installation but every time i try to boot from usb sticks (and I have try to boot to different Linux versions and I have also tried different Bootable linux USB creator programs like native ubuntu bootable usb creator and the MKUSB.)
And I always get the same message. This :

Could not get fio for li->DevIceHandle: Invalid
Failed to get device path
Failed to find fs Invalid parameter
Failed to load image\EFI\BOOT\grubX64.efi:Invalid
start_image() returned Invalid Parameter
Press any key to continue...

what shal I do??

Did you MD5 test the ISO you downloaded?

No but I have tried about six different images ubuntu 18 18 20 linux mint 20 , Kubuntu and Lubuntu all downladed fro the official sites. Do you think that the chances to be all of them corrupted, are sound?

If you don't use torrents or MD5 test the ISO then you don't know if it is complete and consistent?

If you have a problem disabling secure boot in the BIOS settings, maybe it helps to "reset Bios to default".
(Remark: Note down any special settings that you can re-ypply them afterwards)

hmmm ok I will do so then right now

@ actionparsnip
the iso images that I have used are checksummed by the modzila download manager

Oh, does it automatically download the MD5sum for you?

Manfred Hampl
I did restore Bios to default. Did not help, TMP security chip os still active and inaccessible to change .
Any other ideas?

So how does the mozilla downloaded know what a valid checksum is, please?

@ actionparsnip
It does it automatically and if chechsum is not correct asks you about next step as it says here

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Feature_Brainstorming:Downloads#MD5_Checksum

What is the output of

mokutil --sb-state

And, for clarification, when does that strange "Could not get fio for li->DevIceHandle: Invalid" message appear?

@ Manfred Hampl

output of mokutil --sb-state:
EFI variables are not supported on this system

and "Could not get fio for li->DevIceHandle: Invalid"
shows after the computer tries to boot from the usb stick
and reaches a dead end

The MD5sum isn't embedded in the URL so Firefox doesn't have anything to compare against to show a good download. You should MD5 test the ISO you download so you know it is complete and consistent. Torrents add a lot of data checks to the download so MD5 testing isn't required due to how the protocol downloads the data

How do you create the USB stick?

 I have tried different Bootable linux USB creator programs like native
ubuntu bootable usb creator and the MKUSB.

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@ actionparsnip
That I do not know but here what is says at the modzila blog

 'Firefox would automatically check the MD5 and report it on the downloads pane. If a file failed MD5 check, a prompt could ask the user if they wanted to re-download the file."

However I did checksum manual from command line and its all good there

Some more infos with things that I ve tried recently

1) I tried to boot with a light 32 bit linux distro (slax).
 I have chksumed SLAX from command line . Nonetheless the PC remained unresponsive. Did not even show the missing fio message.

2) Also I tried to boot with windows 7 home 64 bit and that seem to work.

Both bootable USB's were created with mkusb

What do you think?

A completely different approach:

Boot the Ubuntu system on your hard disk (I assume that is still possible), install boot-repair and run the boot-info script.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Info

Just because Firefox shows an MD5sum doesn't mean it's OK. You need to compare the sum to the one online. If it matches then it's good. Just making an MD5sum from a file doesn't mean it's OK and any file (good or bad) can be MD5summed and a code generated.

Please use these values to check the file

https://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04/SHA256SUMS

Looks like SHA256 is used now

@ Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) I did so here are the results
http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/8cfw756975/
what shall I do next?

@ actionparsnip
I am doing that already and ISO images are ok

Great. You've removed one possible cause of issues

I am no expert on that matter, but the output of the boot-info script seems to indicate that something is strange or wrong with respect to the setup of EFI.

Maybe you should try changing UEFI setting in your BIOS (or are the disabled TPM settings the only ones?)

I sincerely thank you guys.
The problem was solved and now I can boot ubuntu 2020 .Although I am not sure how .Non the less I deeply appreciated your help.
:)