Ubuntu / Apple :: Bootable Installs: USB, SD, ExpressCard?
Jan 31, 2010
I have searched for a few days now and it seems this forum is the most active when it comes to linux questions so here goes. I have a MacbookPro5,1 and have been looking into various ways of running a linux distro in non-legacy mode, aka through EFI. I was thinking Fedora 12 (gasp) because it supports EFI booting on MBR formatted drives BUT not on a GUID drive (correct me if im wrong). The biggest reason I want to use EFI is because I want to use the 9400m instead of the 9600 card which apparently can be accomplished by entering the correct PCI ID into the xorg.conf file. - I'd like to avoid using the internal drive (running 10.6.2) but am open to it if no other options exist I need to be able to boot via EFI (and able to select it by holding Option at boot)
Variables:
- USB and SDHC cards my AFT PROExpress-7 card reader are bootable via EFI. I understand that these types of flash memory (SD especially) were not designed to run operating systems and the amount of read/writes could kill the drive off quickly if configured wrong. I am unsure of whether or not the ExpressCard/34 slot can boot off an ExpressCard SSD. I have been looking at the MyDigitalSSD 32GB card because it is much faster than the older versions of ExpressCard ssd's and is relatively cheap. Can anyone comment on this or other ExpressCard SSD's?
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- I know about rEFIt but I don't think it helps me in this case (booting XP yes, but if i want to boot linux EFI i don't think so) As mentioned above, I am unsure of what are the requirements for booting a linux distro via EFI when it comes to type of partitioning scheme and what bootloader to install (grub2 or elilo) for a Macbook Pro I'm open to any/all suggestions and will try to document everything I do to update the sparse Wiki's when it comes to this topic.
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 on my netbook, but I can't figure out how to create a bootable USB stick form my current computer, running Mac OS X.
I am using osx on my macbook wanting to create a bootable ubuntu usb pendrive so that i can install ubuntu on my hp laptop. Is anyone aware of any similar tools for osx such as Unetbootin?, or how i can go about creating a bootable live usb.
I'm trying to make a bootable SD card on my macbook pro with built in sd reader so that I can load ubuntu netbook on my eee pc.
I followed the instruction on the Ubuntu Netbook download page, and it appears to work, but the SD card isn't bootable. I've tried to boot from it on both the eee pc and the macbook.
If you know how to do this, or know of some alternative way I can load ubuntu netbook on my eee pc that would be great.
I have a Dawicontrol DC-300 eCard with a Siliconimage chip. When i hotplug the card into my laptop it does not get recognized by the system. There is not even an entry in the output of dmesg. When i do a reboot the card gets recognized correctly and the module "sata_sil24" has been loaded. My system is Fedora 14 64 bit.What can i do to make hotplugging of the eCard work?
I want to know if it is possible to boot Debian from an external disk connected to an esata port which is plugged in as an expresscard.
A laptop I run Linux Mint on has an expresscard adapter which I plan purchase an esata card for. This would provide 2 esata ports.
I will have another harddrive with Debian installed. I will then use an external enclosure to connect the Debian drive to the esata port. I would then add a custom grub entry to point to the drive connected via esata over the expresscard adapter.
The expresscard requires drivers : [URL] ....
Does the environment of the initial grub screen have the necessary drivers to boot from the drive attached over the esata? Is there a way to load them?
Another solution mentions using kexec (first comment under question) : [URL] ....
This seems to require the drivers having been loaded too.
Does anyone know how well (or if) the Creative X-FI xtreme audio Expresscard is supported by ALSA?Unfortunately it isn't even on the list of cards at all on their site. I know that there are two versions of the card, the earlier version was silver and fit a 54mm expresscard slot, and the later version was black and was 34mm. As far as I know they both use the old CA010x chipset (the same as the old Creative Audigy 2 Cardbus card), but I have no idea if that driver in the kernel will even pick it up.This onboard sound on my laptop is just driving me nuts anymore and I need something else.My old Audigy 2 Cardbus card I had for my old laptop was great, but it's just that, a cardbus card.
Actually, the title I was looking for was Belkin Gigabit Ethernet ExpressCard not seen on Dell Precision M6500 with CentOS 5.5 _when system boots with no link on this card_. When I boot this system with a cable connected to the Ethernet port, the card shows up (dmesg, lspci 0e:00.0 and ifconfig). When I boot it with nothing connected, it's like it doesn't exist. I know I could make it work with a loopback plugged in at all times, but am looking for a more graceful solution. Here are messages logs from when it's recognized
Update: Should have been a little clearer - this card has the Marvell Yukon chipset. I'm trying to identify the part number without ripping out the casing.
creating a bootable floppy from a bootable floppy image on a NON Linux machine I am trying to install dsl (damnsmallLinux) on one of my old Compaq 2000 Deskpro machine having 256RAM and 2 GB hardisk. (which I hope to increase to 8 or 10 GB ...can I use a larger disk capacity??) I have downloaded the floppy bootable image from the website using a machine a fedora OS machine that does not have a floppy drive. I have even converted the image file to an iso file. I can copy this image file or iso file to the Compaq machine but how do I use it as a bootable floppy? OR how do I create a bootable floppy disk from this image?
I have a cdrom (bootable) that I want to copy over to a usb stick, and have THAT boot the system (Adding other files to it before hand) I know it's easy, but how? I've already made a iso of the cdrom.
How can i copy my G4L bootable CD into a partition, so thar i can boot from it, and not use the CD anymore?The idea is based in the fact that i am so lazy ... that opening/closing the CD is getting on my nerves
If I dd copy a bootable usb drive to an iso will the iso be bootable?
I haven't tried it yet, but i'm going to. Heres the situation and tell me if I'm crazy.
I have several bootable CDs I use at work to do different things, so I went ahead and made a multi-boot usb stick with the isos on them and everything is golden. When i need something else, I am able to slap the ISO on the usb stick, edit the menu.lst and I'm good to go.
The problem is, for some of our equipment I have a bootable USB stick that I have to use. I tried copying the files on the bootable USB to my multi-boot usb and setup grub to boot it (which admittedly I'm no expert at), but have had no luck.
So now I'm thinking, I'll use dd to copy the bootable USB stick to an iso (using bs=2048) and then do my normal setup with an ISO and maybe it will work.
I have slackware on a bootable flash drive, and the pc onto which I want to install slack won't boot from a flash drive. So how do I burn a bootable set of CDs from my flash drive?
I own a legit Windows XP Home CD, with time its getting more scratches so I want to make an ISO backup. I tried Brasero but the ISO it creates doesn't seem to be bootable. I don't mind using GUI programs, but I'd prefer to know the command line programs to learn more .
Neither Ubuntu's Unity or KDE respond to the function keys on a regular Apple USB keyboard. I can plug in a non-Apple keyboard and they work just fine. What needs to be changed or configure so that F1 and company on the Apple keyboard work as on other keyboards?
This morning I bought an Apple wireless keyboard and I got it connected through Blueman. It works like a charm, but I have on problem;
When I log out I can log back in by typing in my password. However, when I restart the computer it seems that bluetooth is not loaded yet and I cannot enter my password. So I have to log in using my wired keyboard, and then disconnect & re-connect to my wireless keyboard using blueman before I am able to use the wireless keyboard.
Is there any way that I can already auto-load bluetooth and connect to my keyboard before I log in?
I'm trying to use an Apple wireless keyboard with Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) but the fn key is not working at all. If I start up xev and hit the fn key it generates no event. What do I need to do for it to work. It seems as if it should work when viewing pages like
i connected my apple ipod in ubuntu 10.04..its showing msg that" do no disconnect" but there is no trace of ipod in the system,not even any icon in desktop too
i installed ubuntu 9.10(karmic) from a dic i downloaded and burned and it worked beautifully (except sis 671/771 but thats fixed) and i decided to go back on windows to do some college work and when i finally got windows onto grub 2 it came up Bootmgr not found CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart Now i tried to fix this with 7 recovery disc(windows not detected and cmd wont "mount" any other drives apart from x) and tried o make a live windows usb all failed
I'm pretty new with boot loaders, and I'm having some troubles. I had Ubuntu 11.04 installed and working pretty well, but I went to give Fedora 15 a try. I thought dual boot would be ideal.
So I used some free space in my HD, installed Fedora 15 Live USB, / in one partion, and /home in another, and a swap.
I always use /boot in another 100 MB partition at the start of the disk, so during the F15 bootloader, I directed it to the /boot partition.
After reboot, I can get into F15, but when I select 'other' I get an error message (sorry, its hard to remember "boot img not found, press cntrl alt del " )
In a panic, I used an old boot cd, ubuntu 10.10, created yet another really tiny partition of 2.3 gigs from free space, and installed its bootloader in my /boot partition again.
I can boot back into Ubuntu 11.04 (or 10.10, which I will see nuke anyways.) But no fedora choice anymore at all?
Is there a boot cd/tool that I can use to read all 3 of my OS, and allow me to boot into the one I want?
Or should I reinstall a Fresh F15 (since i've not done anything) and make different changes during install ?
Any reason why F15 and Ubuntu can't see each other during their installs?
This is a really odd problem. It installs under 133/266MHz and runs fine. When it's at 133/266 it reconizes it as AMD ATHLON XP in the BIOS and the Linux Installation. I want to be able to install it using 166/333MHz which is the stock setting of the processor! When I set it to that in the BIOS it reconizes as a AMD SEMPRON 2800+ but will not install Ubuntu 9.10.
This is the error I get if I try to run it from the CD, Install it, or boot from the current installation which I installed it with 133/266MHz. If anyone can please help me figure this out it would be great, im trying to use it as a server and would not like to bottleneck it as it shouldn't be. I get these errors
I burnt a 10.04 LTS disc when it was released and just tried installing on an old Pentium 2 400 MHz with 320 MB and two 10 GB drives. After rebooting, it comes up in text mode with a tty2 login. Did this install the server version only? Is there a command to launch the GUI shell? There were no options during the install to choose GUI or server version and I assumed this was the 32-bit GUI version and the install disc ran we GUI during installation.
Friend asked me an interesting question today. We were talking about having a 'fallback' option in Ubuntu / other Linux distros so that if you wanted to default to stock ubuntu with none of your personal additions (excluding updates)and we came up with the idea that if dpkg / apt would install anything NEW to /opt, then you could go back to a vanilla install by just doing and then you have a essentially a clean install.
Out of curiosity more than anything else, we started looking around, googling possible ways to phrase that question and nothing came up. So does anyone know of a way to set that up?I know you can add /opt/ to your PATH variable so that you can put an executable there and BASH will find it. But I didn't know if you could do it for install things there by default.If nothing else at least it would give Ubuntu a more centralized place to install applications / view all parts of a applications because roaming through /etc/, /usr/, /bin/ and everything else that comes with the "AWESOME" Filesystem Hierarchy we still have is a pain.
I'm trying to install the Unix version of Rapidshare manager on an Ubuntu VPS I have .. The installation script is this: [URL]... I have two Ubuntu VPS machines .. On the first one, after chmod'ing the program installs fine, however on this other VPS, after chmod'ing and running the script I get this error:
Code: Starting Installer . Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1.0". Could not deteremine disk space: Cannot run program "df": java.io.IOException: error=12, Cannot allocate memory The the installer's GUI comes up, I go through the program, and although it says that its installed, its really not Also, 'df' command runs fine on this Ubuntu VPS, and shows tons of available disk space, so I don't know what's the problem
When i install Ubuntu, it's starting programs, and all of it's defaults is great, but I do a lot of configuring to get it the way I wants there a way to save all the configurations, settings, and all the updates.
I've only ever installed two programs that came in .tar.gz's with their own install.sh scripts. Each one recommended to be saved in /opt.What is opt? Should all .tar.gz programs with their script installer be handled in the opt directory?
I'm planning to have two installs on the same pc, so I can break / test one and still have a usable system. I've got my partitions setup so I have a separate /home for both installs to share, but how do I share the updates? I'm going to use clonezilla to copy the working (/) partition, but how can I use the updates for both installs. I'm just trying to save downloading twice if possible. Is there a way to copy or use the updates applied in one partition to the other? Does apt save the updates somewhere?
When I try to install or uninstall anything it always starts working then jumps to 90% and gives me the following errorThis may very well by my fault I'm very new to linux and ubuntu both. I've tried searching all over the Internet with no success.
Code: apport-gtk depends on apport (>= 0.41); however: Package apport is not configured yet.
I see some drastic changes on the fonts' of several websites I visit regular. Everything is ok when I try to remove the package msttcorefonts. The question is, why does this package install by itself? I remember that I've uninstalled it several times!
