Ubuntu / Apple :: Cannot Boot From Disk Or Disc?
Jan 27, 2010
I've installed Kubuntu (9.10 I think) on my Mac Mini 3.1 . So I have an OS X partition and an Kubuntu partition.I got the standard no bootable device message.I cannot boot into OS X (I dont want to get into OSX anyway) or Kubuntu.I booted a rEFIt disc and synced the GPT and partition table.Then I booted onto a Kubuntu live cd to re-install grub into the Kubuntu partition. I re-installed it and tried rebooting. I got the grub menu, but must have missed a setting because it was the grub prompty. So I reboot to try to find the values to put into the prompt (kernel location, initrd location). But when I try to boot into the Kubuntu live cd it freezes just after ISOLINUX appears (only the top line for ISOLINUX shows up).
I tried going back into rEFIt, but it tells me the GPT and MBR are synced and it won't do anything.If I load rEFIt and select linux, it loads to saying no bootable device -- insert boot disk....If I load rEFIt and select the partition tool it tells me they are already synced, if I select Linux after doing that it will freeze with the tux icon in the middle of the screen.It is obvious I need to do the next step which is install Grub, but I can't boot off any live cds! I have tried Kubuntu, System rescue cd, gparted live cd, os x install cd, an osx corialis boot cd I made, an older Kubuntu CD. They all freeze just after ISO Linux starts up or the OS X ones give me a do not enter sign.
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Mar 25, 2010
I want to install Ubuntu on a PPC iMac.It is running 10.2.8.I'm looking for a ppc version of Ubuntu that will fit on a CD-R, the iMac has no DVD reader.Where can I find this?Also, I'm not sure how to get the iMac to boot from disc. It doesn't seem to respond to holding 'c'. Also, when I hold 'option' during boot up it shows me a screen with a picture of a lock, it wants me to fill in a password, but my user's password won't work.
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Jan 7, 2011
I did a full install of Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro (7,1) and I am trying to boot into the OS X disc but the screen always pulls up the Apple logo and loading circle and then greys out and tells me to turn the machine off.
I cannot get into disc utility or anything. It almost seems like the computer doesn't know how to handle the disc. I did not use Refit and the only change I made to the boot loader was blessing the ubuntu partition.
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Jan 7, 2010
I bought a t770.uk HP desktop PC, which came without a Hard drive as the pervious owner had removed it for security reasons. A week later I got a hold of a brand new - out of an anti-static sealed bag - compatible Western Digital Caviar SE 80GB SATA150 7200 HDD, and installed it as directed by my t770.uk manual. Up until now, things looked to be on a roll. As I don't have any windows OS, I figured Ubunutu would be the way to go (and it certainly is from what I've heard and read about it. I can't wait!).
So I sent off for a CD and it popped through my mail a few weeks back. The problem that I am having is after booting past a very brief view of the HP POST screen, the screen goes black with the error "Disc boot failure-insert system disk and press enter". I've tried placing the Ubuntu disc in (assuming it is asking for that? An OS disc) and restarting, and changing the boot order around, but no matter what I do the error persists and I can't install Ubuntu. I really want to get this PC running with Ubuntu.
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Apr 24, 2010
I have OS9 and a PC with Win7. what is the best tool to burn the CD in Windows or OS9? I used Transmac on the PC but the G4 Cube won't boot from the disk though it reads it in OS9.
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Jan 1, 2011
I have just installed 11.3 x64. The installation went fine and worked for the first few hours. I ran the online update tool, and now it cannot find grub unless the installation disc is inserted and I select the "boot from hard disc" option.
I have read about the problem of the root partition being back, but not sure that's it.
sda1 - swap
sda2 - /
sda3 - /home
There used to be a repair tool in the installation disks. I could not find that in this media. Is that still available?
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Oct 13, 2010
I resarted it and put in the disc and held the option/alt key. It came up with the options Macintosh HD then a few seconds later it had a CD images and said "Windows" i laughed then went to it It started with a black screen the said ISO linux then a name and went to a flashing under score thing then the white flashing underscore disapeared... Then it was just a black screen. I waited for mabye 2 or 3 minutes then held my power button and shut down and tried agian same thing happend but this time after the underscore my computer just shutdown. Im trying to RUN (not install....yet) on my macbook from a CD-r CD...in disc utility it said it burn successfully.
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Dec 26, 2010
I started by running ubuntu 10.10 live CD and I did an install on my iMac. I went the route of just deleting all the data off of the iMac (I have a time capsule backup) and ran the install. Well when i booted the computer back up then Ubuntu did not come up as expected.After a few trial and errors I decided to just reinstall the Mac OS. I put the wrong disc in (it was an upgrade disk and not the disk that came with the iMac) so I wanted to eject it. That was a no go. Keep in mind i was using LOGITECH KEYBOARD and not the wireless keyboard that came with it. So when my computer boots up now all I get is the grey screen. After a while it tried to boot up Ubuntu. The screen has a flashing cursor, and then it disappears and the screen stays black.
I can get the computer to the point where if I hold the option key (alt on my logitech keyboard) then the option to boot to windows or the CD comes up. I can't boot to either.I've tried the command (windows key on the logitech keyboard) ctrl+o+f start up keys to try and get the command prompt up and that didn't work eitherI've tried a few other things and they didn't work. I'm not even sure my wireless keyboard works on bootup. I've tried to hold down the option key for the dual boot selection screen and it doesn't pop up, but it pops up when I use the logitech keyboard.Oh someone PLEASE help me. I have an Intel core iMac which was bough with the last year I believe. I would like to get the disc out or at least get Ubuntu up and I can eject the disk from the Ubuntu OS.
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Jul 9, 2011
I tried using C and I get No bootable device insert boot disk and press any key. I tried fn+option (alt) and got the boot menu..The disk loaded and came up as windows. I click it and then enter key and it loads to a black screen again saying No bootable divice. I tried another disk and same deal.
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Dec 2, 2010
I have been given an Apple Ibook that wont boot
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Sep 7, 2010
I'm running windows vista right now on my laptop and I can't boot into ubuntu, I tried downloading that one program from the disc to assist in helping it run from boot, but it still goes right to vista. I don't know what to do.
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Jan 21, 2011
For several days I stuck on a problem despite my various searches on the net. I just installed a machine in RC1 Squeeze.
My Partitioning
Disc 1
/ boot RAID 1
/ swap RAID 1 and encrypted
/ RAID 1 and encrypted
[Code]....
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Aug 5, 2010
I have been having a problem with my 11.1 recently, in that it gets stuck at a point in the boot process that tells me "INIT cannot execute /bin/sh" then it says "INIT: id 1 is respawning too fast please wait 5 minutes" and tells me there are no more preocesses in this runlevel and repeats this no matter how long I wait. Since I couldnt find any information on fixing that, I decided to just upgrade to 11.3 with a boot disc. Now my computer wont recognize the disc to boot from it and still gets stuck at the same screen.
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Feb 21, 2011
I have a PPC G4 with two internal hard drives. I just (well, a few hours ago) installed ubuntu 8.04 LTS (I think) on one of them. I find it wonderful. I never thought I would like another OS besides MAC OS.
Anyway, I still have a MAC OS 10.3.9 in the other (and bigger) hard drive: I would like to restart with Mac OS from that drive (something like choosing the startup disk in Mac OS System Prefrences) and I don't know how!
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Mar 10, 2010
this blew my mind today, because i've been using ubuntu for 2 and half years. Brasero 2.28.2 in Karmic does not have an option enable multisessions when burning disc or import a disc which has a multisession.
Seriously, wtf is going on? This is supposed to be Ubuntu's default CD authoring software.
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Dec 19, 2010
I'm trying to install files and everytime I manage to install from the first disc I succeed. When I get the the second disc I just keep clicking the "OK" button instead of "Cancel" and it keeps neglecting it.
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Jan 6, 2010
am using the community build of Ubuntu 9.10, I have an old as dirt Power Macintosh G3 Blue And White, and I can't get it to install. I tried the live CD first of course, and now the alternate. Both tell me that no disk drives detected, even though Mac OS 9, X, and Fedora all detect both my 40gb seagate, my 120gb seagate, and my 120gb maxtor.I am trying to get this running with some sort of linux for a school project.What is happening is it asks me what driver to use, and if I select the bottom option that it is none of the above, it asks me to load a driver from a USB flash drive, which I don't know what driver to use. They are all standard IDE devices hooked into the built in bus. I obviously can't move past this point.
Specs:PowerPC G3 450mhz1gb of RAM120gb hard driveDVD-ROM driveZIP 250 drive (currently not hooked up)PCI ATI Rage 128 16mb video card (stock)Apple Fast ethernet 10/100 PCI card (machine has built in ethernet, but I am turning this machine into a hardware firewall, so a second NIC is required).Oh, I have used this machine perfectly with ubuntu before. When I first got it, I started out running Ubuntu 5.10 way back in 2005. I was thinking of downloading and burning 6.06, and upgrading from there.
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Jun 18, 2010
The cd starts up fine screen shows ubuntu logo and five dots then after it goes blank and screen goes to sleep. Also after install within windows i startup into ubuntu it then asks me which to boot into; windows 7, ubuntu, or ubuntu (debug mode or sumthing like the).
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Sep 23, 2010
I'm trying to boot a Windows 7 disc from my friends Acer desktop. I was planning on overwritting his copy of Windows Vista with 7 and then installing Ubuntu beside it, but it won't boot from the disc. It will however, boot from the Ubuntu LiveCD. It's not the disc, because I can boot from it on my computer just fine.
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Sep 26, 2010
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD
Image version: ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i386
Date: 1 oct 1600h
[code]....
Output of lspci and lspci -n: unsure Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [ ] Config network: [ ] Detect CD: [E] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Create file systems: [ ] Mount partitions: [ ] Install
[code]....
Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands.
(initramfs) can not mount /dev/loop0 (/cdrom/casper/filesystem-squaslfs) on //filesystem.squaslifs"
I have retried many times, using different disc, different boot method from the CD menu but consistantly get to this screen.
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Jul 5, 2011
I have downloaded the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS iso from the Ubuntu website and created a Live USB disc with it.
I test this USB disc by booting from it on my desktop machine. It works fine. It even reinstalls Ubuntu on a test partition successfully.
I then attempt to use this Live USB disc to boot up my netbook. I receive the initial boot menu, and I can choose to either 'try with no changes' or 'install'. Either way, Ubuntu fails to boot, and hangs on the purple pre-desktop Ubuntu splash-screen for over half an hour with no change.
So I try re-creating the Live USB disc with both the Universal USB Installer and Unetbootin. The Live USB disc still fails to boot my netbook with exactly the same result. If I press the ESC key on the netbook whilst the screen has hung at this stage, I see the message code...
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Nov 17, 2010
I have this 1 TB HDD , which had a single NTFS partition. I was planning to repartition it using my Mac OSX Disk Utility( my blunder). Once I did the reparitioning disk utility ran for like 8 hrs for reparition of 120 Gigs. After seeing no status after 8 hrs , I just plugged it out.After that am not able to use my HDD seems this wretched utilit has screwed thepartition table. Needless to say this 1 TB contains my 10 years of life time.Till now I have done :Used R3cover to recover partition table: No luckUsed Stellar for Mac : NO luck( this tool ran for 36 hrs before shouting No Data Found!!)Am runnig Test Disk: Interesting tool ran for 30 hrs and asked me to do a deep search now its been running for 2 days with status showing 50% usageThe status shows some 20 Linux parition, 1 Swap parition and 1 unknown partition.As Far as I know I never created any Liux partition.
Linux 329525360 746620911 417095552
Linux 329525384 746620935 417095552
Linux 329525408 746620959 417095552
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Apr 28, 2011
I am trying to burn mac osx 10.5 install disk from from a 6.7gb dmg disk image. I thought I would be using 2 DVD-R 4.7GB discsfor this burn, I was hoping when the first was full it would ask for another to finish the burn. Instead it get the message that the DVD will not hold the choosen DMG. file.
Can I do anything besides buy a dual layer DVD that would hold the whole file?
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Aug 2, 2010
I've tried to boot my Ubuntu 10.04 from my disc drive, and installing it in Windows like an app, but every time I do my screen looks like it went bad. The top two inches are the way it should be but the rest is white, and I can't see anything. Is there some setting on my comp I need to adjust or did I just get a bad disc? The disc doesn't have a scratch on it and I've cleaned twice now.
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Mar 11, 2011
After happily running a persistent install from a USB stick for a week I decided to delete my Windows install and replace with Ubuntu.
I did the install from the USB stick, selecting the option to use the whole drive.
When the install finished I was prompted to restart. I removed the USB stick and did so. The machine rebooted... and nothing. Just a flashing cursor top left of a black screen.
I've booted the USB stick version and looked at the hard drive. Stuff has been installed sure enough, but it will not boot.
Machine is Acer Aspire 5920 laptop. Running Ubuntu from USB stick has been smooth as silk with no issues.
I'm not technically minded, so I'm afraid that any assistance (for which I would be eternally grateful) may need to be n00b-style dumbed-down.
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May 22, 2011
while installing ubuntu 10.10 from disc on a free partition i'm only getting 2 options instead of 3 'use entire disk' & 'advanced install' but no installing along side other operating system i really want to install along windows 7 as a dual boot, but how do i do this is the option is not there i'v had a look at advanced but looks a bit daunting.
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Jan 4, 2009
I'm trying to boot into the Live CD on my Ubuntu installation disc. I changed the BIOS to boot from my disc drive, and I can hear it read the disc, but then my computer just boots into the Ubuntu installed on my hard drive. How can I boot the Live CD?
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Mar 11, 2011
After happily running a persistent install from a USB stick for a week I decided to delete my Windows install and replace with Ubuntu.I did the install from the USB stick, selecting the option to use the whole drive.When the install finished I was prompted to restart. I removed the USB stick and did so. The machine rebooted... and nothing. Just a flashing cursor top left of a black screen.I've booted the USB stick version and looked at the hard drive. Stuff has been installed sure enough, but it will not boot.Machine is Acer Aspire 5920 laptop. Running Ubuntu from USB stick has been smooth as silk with no issues.I'm not technically minded, so I'm afraid that any assistance (for which I would be eternally grateful) may need to be n00b-style dumbed-down.
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Jul 20, 2010
I am installing Ubuntu 10.04 on my new Mac Mini. It has 2 500GB hard-drives, and I have created a partition for Ubuntu. During installation, however, Ubuntu is not able to detect my disk drive, neither my network interface. So I am not able to 'Partition Disks' which is part of Ubuntu installation. Did any of you encounter this problem? Any solutions or workarounds? Should I setup my disks in anyway before installation or use boot args?
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Aug 9, 2010
I've been given an old blue and white Macintosh G3 350MHz 700MB RAM and 6GB HDD. When I try to install Ubuntu Server 9.10 PowerPC the installer tells me it cannot see a HDD and that I have to select a Driver for the Disk. I have absolutely no idea which driver to pick from the very long list.
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