I would like to be able to change my BIOS setting to enable me to access a live cd or dvd to try some Linux Distros. At the moment ,when I access the BIOs ,it willl not stay as adjusted ,it ignores the settings ,it goes to default.
View 8 RepliesI have an issue where the CPU isnt running at full capacity. I there some way to enable all the CPU, is it a power setting in the BIOS?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI want to go back to Windows. However I can't uninstall Ubuntu since I can't boot up from CD nor USB no matter how I change the BIOS setting. I chose CD or USB but it will go straight to Ubuntu. How can I get rid of it without taking out the hard drive and have it formatted from another computer.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIm trying to test out Ubuntu while running Windows currently, once i got the ISO image installed into my USB device by following the steps on the Ubunto site, i rebooted my PC and tried to get into BIOS to change the setting to boot through the USB device.
but i was unable to open BIOS.
this is all i saw in the bottom right side of my screen as far as commands to open some thing before my PC would boot through my Cdrive and load Windows.
L> BIOS Setup/Q-flash
I currently have a Windows XP OS which i want to dual-boot with Ubuntu Linux 10.10 . I put the disk in the drive and chose the option to install Linux through Windows. But it hangs in the middle. I am also unable to change my BIOS settings due to which i can"t change my boot preference. My first Boot is the HDD. I want to change it to CD-ROM. Any suggestion? I also have another PC where i can boot through the CD...I tried installing there by booting from the CD but i get this error message after seeing the purple Linux screen with the loading dots. "(Process:286):Glib warning**:getpwuid:failed due to unknown user id (0)
P.S.- I am not able to see any options while the boot is going on
I have an Eee PC 701 4G, and some time ago I disabled its wireless NIC in the BIOS to save energy. Now I've come to need it working again, but I can't re-enable it, because it always goes back to being disabled after I boot the eeebuntu installed on the machine. If I just enable it in the BIOS, reboot and go into the BIOS setup again, it's still enabled, but if I let the OS load it'll get disabled. I'm really at a loss here, how do I find out what's wrong? Could it be Ubuntu that does this?
View 3 Replies View Relateddo you mount a dvd when the BIOS does even have a setting for DVD's?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have created a live fedora11 usb using live usb creator, but when I restart the computer the bios does not recognize the live usb and system stop (not shut down) when I choose boot from usb drive option.
BIOS: inside H20
I have a recent ACER laptop that I used to use with Ubuntu only, but Ubuntu has crashed and won't boot anymore. I tried booting it via the live CD to try and recover my files before re-installing everything, but the CD won't run automatically.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI recently put together a new machine with Ubuntu 9.10 I couldn't boot it even live (or any live distro for that). It wound up being either a ACPI or APM setting in the BIOS that got it to boot, I say either because I spent probably 10 hours in there turning things on and off until it worked. It was about 4am so my memory of it ain't that great. TO get up to date, I was adding a HDD and having some issues with it being detected right. So back in the BIOS I was and accidentally loaded the defaults! Now I can't figure out what I did last time I've been at it for hours with no luck.
If I jump into grub b4 it boots and add the acpi=off the system boots up but with the side effects of no pwr mgmt. I need it to be able to sleep and shut itself off. I've always had good luck with Ubuntu in other machines so I'm not that great in there, and honestly don't know the difference between apm/acpi. The MOBO is an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe, AMI Bios. I'm gunna keep at it in the mean time, if by any chance I figure it out I'll post what it was (after I write it down).
How can I Bios configuration and check USB setting?
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhile building my new server I grinded ta hold shortly after inserting the FDR10 DVD.
Hardware:
Chenbro es34069
Albatron KI690-AM2
AMD Athlon X2 64 4850E
IDE 2.5" HD (master)
IDE Slimline DVD (slave)
4x SATA II swap (still empty)
It stops at the message "net: Registered protocol family 2" but in one of my desperate attempts I changed almost every setting in my BIOS (updated to 1.07) and all of a sudden it passed on. Stupid enough I figured it would be a small effort to find the setting and figure out the problem, so I changed them one at a time after loading the defaults....
I have a Dell Windows7 PC configured with BIOS RAID1. I want to install SLES10 and configure it with Software RAID1. My question is: Do I need to reconfigure the BIOS RAID setting and if so What should it be.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have CentOS 5 running on my machine "Appro 1122hi". Now i need to replace centOS with RHEL 4.
Steps Followed is, i changed the bios setting to start booting form CD.
when i try to boot form CD i get "PXE-E61 media test failure, check cable" error
Hardware details. AMD opteron processor 248, 64 bit machine and 16 GB ram.
I changed something in the BIOS which causes a kernel panic, if my card is installed (Ultra ATA/133 PCI-to-ATA Host Controller). I had it working fine til a month ago, when I installed some Linux on a HD on that card. That booted fine too, and I did some disk switching. Still all was well, but yesterday I tried to boot XP (2nd IDE master)(GRUB is Ubuntu/2nd IDE slave), and XP wouldn't load. I clicked here, and clicked there, and now XP and Ubuntu boot, ONLY if the RAIDbus card is Out. Put the card in, and I get a kernel panic/lockup. This HAS to be a BIOS function - nothing is different on the disks, including GRUB menu.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIf an old bios and mainboard is being used, such that it cannot handle the large size of HD, then is it useful to say use a live CD and from its initial menu (pressed a key), choose 'Boot From First Hard Disk'? Would this be similar in getting around a bios and disk size limitation I wonder - like - does the use of a live CD in this way avoid using the bios to point to the active partition??
The reason for asking is that a friend has a couple of quality old rack mounted server machines and wants to use Ubuntu having now fitted 80 GB empty drives. Live CD seems ok, and 11.04 install goes ok but on boot up grub comes back with an error.
I recall that early machines cannot see larger(?) HDs for booting purposes even though installs go ok in very large HDs. I wondered if a live CD to boot up temporarily - trouble shooting - would be worth trying for this reason, or am I way off?
I have a ubuntu server , can advise if I want to change the network setting ( eg. IP address , gateway address etc ) , which one is the configuration file ? for example , if I want to change eth0 setting , what file I should update ?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI made a live Ubuntu 10.10 USB Using Lucid's startup disk creator , but upon booting it stops at boot:>
View 3 Replies View Relatedtwo weeks i was trying find out to change the bios settings in linux from command line...can we edit the bios settings after os loaded without reboot
View 7 Replies View RelatedI was given an old Compaq Presario computer; it had a 3.2GB hard drive with windoze 98 (put your crucifixes down, please) and a somewhat broken CD drive. I replaced the CD with a spare DVD ROM and the hard drive was replaced with a spare 250GB. I also removed the old ISA Fax/modem and installed a PCI network card. On top of this I also burned a copy of Xubuntu 8.04 on my main PC, for loading onto the old timer.
But then I came to use the old machine, the BIOS recognised the new DVD ROM, but no menu appeared, just the word "COMPAQ", any attempt to access the BIOS met with no response, (would not respond to "Del" or "Esc" or any of the "F" keys) the PC then attempts to boot from the hard drive (it had an old version of, what I think may be Ubuntu, as it comes up with a GRUB error 1!
I did notice the DVD ROM drive's light flash during the boot sequence. how to access the BIOS?It would be a shame for me to throw this old PC out! (I could always salvage the parts, I have 2 other motherboards and cases ready to make up some more computers, making 5 computers in my network)
i have managed to install ubuntu onto the USB and everything is working fine but the problem i am having is that i can't seem to access the bios on the netbook so i can't boot from the USB.i managed to get acess to the root files using this guide:url...all i need to do is figure out how to get access to the Bios so i can change the settings so it boots from USB.
View 6 Replies View Relatedaccessing the BIOS on a Powerbook G3 Lombard (1999).
View 9 Replies View RelatedSo I installed Ubuntu 8.04 with Wubi a while ago on my Toshiba Satellite A500/02j and recently uninstalled it (with Wubi). For whatever reason, Windows will not get rid of its bootloader and I cannot access my BIOS settings. I've tried spamming every function key that I have when it boots up but nothing happens (if I press ESCAPE when I'm at the boot menu it restarts). Any idea on how to get rid of it and get me my bios back?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want my PC to boot from the CD Drive instead of the hard drive.Can I change the boor order in UBUNTU?[I did a search on BIOS and got 0 hits]
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs there such a command (mb with sysctl)?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have an old computer, it came with Windows 98, later I updated it with Windows XP. XP ran slowly because of it's outdated hardware. Around this time I already had a new computer. I decided to install Ubuntu on it to muck around with. However, Ubuntu also runs slowly and I have a dual-booting computer. However, when I try to get into the BIOS of the computer and run the 98 disk, I can hit every button and BIOS will not load. Question: How do I reinstall Windows if I can't access the BIOS?
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhen i boot my spare machine i am not able to access the bios or use the arrow keys in the Grub2 menu with a usb keyboard.However,once Debian boots i am able to use the usb keyboard and mouse normally.The strange thing is if i attach a Ps/2 keyboard i can access the bios and Grub2 without problems.With the Ps/2 keyboard attached i entered the bios and checked the settings regarding usb and the following options are enabled:
Usb contoller [enabled]
Usb 2.0 support [enabled
Usb Legacy support [auto]
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I have an openSUSE 11.1 (64 bit ) machine file sharing with samba in a mixed os enviroment [ linux , winxp , mac ]and the share appears in network nghborhood on pcs ok , and the sharing is ok .But-- ther is 1 matter that i would like to change.in network neighborhood the machine name appears asSamba 3.2.7-11.7.1-2373-SUSE-CODE11 (NameMyMachine)the NameMyMachine is just fine but the 1st part --Samba 3.2.7-11.7.1-2373-SUSE-
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have installed Ubuntu 9.10 and love it but I have one question. I tried to access the bios so that I can activate the Num-Lock during bootup but it's asking for a password. I tried my user password but that didn't work. How do I get that password? It's the only OS on the computer.
View 4 Replies View RelatedHow do I access my BIOS duirng startup of my Koala 9.10 program? I simply need to make some changes to it and am unable to access it through the normal buttons that worked when the computer had a WIndows (yuck) OS.
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