I have this motherboard, 4 GB pendrive, and i'm trying to boot USB Pendrive. I tried boot USB-HDD, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP and USB CD-ROM There are few other weird options as well. Now i'd like to ask, how shall i boot ubuntu on this motherboard?
View 2 RepliesSo here is my situation..i was using win 7 and ubuntu 10.10 in my dell studio 1555. and i wanted to try out debian so i installed debian in my pendrive. so the grub was modified. when the computer starts it shows debian,ubuntu and win7 no problem.. but if i remove the pendrive, nothing comes up. it shows grub rescue>..
so now i cant start up unless i plug in the pendrive. what to do now to solve this problem?? i want to restore my grub to the previos state.
Can you install Ubuntu onto a USB PenDrive and then boot it on a PS2?.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedWhile installing Ubuntu from USB (made with usb-creator), I began getting errors such as 'ubi-timezone has failed with exit code 1', with a retry / continue / cancel option, finally getting 'Installer has failed with exit code 1'
Now when I try to run Ubuntu directly from the USB key, it won't start properly, giving errors about zero drive space.
I'm now unable to continue the installation or even use Ubuntu from the USB!
How I can fix this? At least, how can I remove whatever has filled up the USB so I can run from it?
I have a USB PenDrive (FAT32 file system) that has 2 boot options. Boot option 1 = runs a program that updates my BIOS. Boot option 2 = runs a program that executes a basic hardware test on the PC. I don't need to access any HDD or load any operative system. the pen drive is using a DOS bootstrap (like the one you obtain when you format a device using /s option under DOS).
Can I use an advanced graphical bootloader to accomplish the same thing? It would be nice to have a background bootsplash logo of the company, while the user selects one of the two boot options, using the cursor keys. Just like GRUB...
I just installed ubuntu on my netbook, using a USB flash drive. I'd now like to return it to its normal use as storage so I don't have to carry my external hard drive around all the time. How do I reformat it now that the installation is done? should I keep it as a pendrive in case of problems and just get another flash drive
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have installed Ubuntu 10.10. Works good, but I would like to switch LTS-release-cycle. I can't burn CD, so I'm trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 without cd or pendrive. I tried to install Ubuntu 10.04, using Ubuntu alternate cd and grub loader: [url] but it doesn't work (bugs in kernel modules) Is it possible to downgrade Ubuntu 10.10 to 10.04 without burning cd? Can i create new partition and house the installation disk?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just performed a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 on my flash drive, allocating a 6.5 GB persistence file. Of course, the first thing I did after booting from it was to run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade. After a lengthy install process, I was eventually notified that several packages failed to upgrade. I rebooted and tried again, still to no avail. Now, whenever I install a new package or attempt to upgrade with apt-get, I receive the following or a simmilar output:
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Setting up fuse-utils (2.8.1-1.1ubuntu2.2) ...
creating fuse group...
udev active, skipping device node creation.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
[code].....
What I have solved:
8 GB Pendrive
FAT32 (vfat) bootable
CentOS 1-7.iso's are in directory /CentOS
kickstart is called with:
installation is PERFECT!
but
I CAN'T GET THIS TO WORK and I can' find and detailed document's on this
I'm having issue with trying to put the 11.3 DVD iso to a USB pendrive...I've verified the ISO md5sum matches, formatted the pendrive to FAT32, unmounted and finally done:
# isohybrid openSUSE-11.3-DVD-x86_64.iso
# dd if=/path/to/iso/openSUSE-11.3-DVD-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M;sync
Everything appears to work fine, but once I try to boot I geterror saying no installation CD/DVD is not found and is asking for software installation repository, so I select the media as hard drive since if I select cd/dvd drive, the messag "no repository found"...then I select the USB drive (sdc1 4.2GB, iso9660, openSUSE-DVD) then it asks for "enter the source directory"...I'm not certain what to enter there, so I just point to the root directory "/" and installation continues...followed by "no new driver updates found"....so GUI starts up again...it loads kernel modules, to confirm "usb-storage"...then a message "the partitioning on disk /dev/sdc is not readable by the portioning tool parted,...." I click OK...finally I get stuck on
i decided to install ubuntu in my PC,i downloaded the .ISO image and i installed it in my USB. After trying it and all that i observed that i really liked it and i decided to formally install it to my computer in the hard drive. When i reached the partition thing,i selected to dual boot with Vista and select between each them in every startup,when i clicked FORWARD it gave me an error which i did not read(because,again im a noob) so i clicked cancel.
Today i wanted to go through the process again and now really install it,so again i went to the time zone part and i clicked forward but then,instead of taking me straight to the partition phase,it appeard a window saying "The installer has detected that the following disks have mounted partitions: /dev/sda ...." I clicked yes,to unmount this partitions so it took me to the partition thing,once there i selected the option to install Ubuntu with Vista and select between them i neach startup,then i clicked forward and went to the username/computer name process,once i finished i continued to the next part,the installation,but i selected to import all of my WIndows VIsta default user data,after that i clicked forward and went to the installation process,i went down stairs to eat soemthing while it finishes,i came back and it was finished,it asked me to reboot so i clicked in Restart Now.
When it tried to boot,appeared an error saying: Error: no such devide found: #################### Grub load(or something like that) grub rescue: and it was a command line,since there i havent been able to boot into vista or Ubuntu,im really scared because is the first thing related to OS installing ive done,so i booted my USB and ran the trial and right now im trying to find out what to do from that trial version.
I just went to the INSTALL UBUNTU 10.04 LTS application under the System>Administration Menu and found out that in the partition phase the Install and allow to select between both systems in eahc startup option,i dont know what to do,i foudn out that my HD has still all its data(MUsic/Videos/Folders/Programs/ect.)its just that i cannot boot from it. Also in GParted it appears as /dev/sda1/ and a warning icon besides it,also when i go into information, thers this warning there [URL]
i have a standalone system in my home. i don't have cd/dvd drive and no any facility to install it form network. i want to install redhat 5.3 using pen drive on my pc.
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View 9 Replies View RelatedI updated from 10.04 to 10.10. Ubuntu works fine, but Vista does not boot anymore. If i select it from the GRUB menu the Pc just go silent and does nothing till I press Ctrl+Alt+Canc.
Here is my fdisk -l
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Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
code....
Actually when I started format under ' FAT32 All Systems '.. it started and after some time it showed an error and close.. it pendrive unmouted automatically .. I tried with another USB port .. It didn't show up on desktop but there in my computer.. but its not opening there.. When I right clicked on it.. it not showing any options that a pendive icon usually shows like format..
View 1 Replies View RelatedToday I am facing strange issue with my USB. I can't format my pendrive. Doing all possible commands it showing that the pendrive is write protected it cannot be fomatted
I have tried fdisk,cfdisk,gparted,dd, rm * etc pendrive is transcend 8 gib but it showing 530gib of size
I'm using xubuntu 10.10 on usb, and i compile a new kernel but just i cannot access it. If I used harddisk instead of usb, simply, i can select my new kernel version in grub screen. However, there is no grub when booting from usb. So i cannot any selection.how can i reach the new kernel, when using xubuntu on usb?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI used to have Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my old IBM Thinkpad R40e. I upgraded to 9.04 LTS and seem to have updated to the 10.04 LTS kernel - didn't know about that until now.
Recently I created an Ubuntu 10.10 Persistence Pendrive. I tried to readjust the booting sequence in order to boot from my USB stick Ubuntu 10.10. It somehow failed. - actually I know what to do in a BIOS
My computer still only boots via the harddisk - it does not boot via the Ubuntu-Pendrive nor does it boot if I insert an Ubuntu 10.10 CD. Further I cannot access my BIOS.
Is there any possibility to reset my BIOS manually - I know that some Dell computers have such an option? Any other way to update to Ubuntu 10.10.
Just moved/reinstalled my HTPC setup (XBMC Live + extras) to a 8GB USB pendrive to simplify future reinstalls and upgrades. Everything works fine so far and I've not had any issues setting up everything for my needs. The system is very responsive in use in XBMC (and other) but slow down quite a bit occasionally when doing to much at the same time.
Since a USB pendrive have its limitations, a concern I have is regarding the swap partition that is currently on the pendrive. Should I move the swap to a swap partition on my HDD to ease the stress on the pendrive; and could I expect any gain in performance? I have 2GB of RAM.
I have a machine which i have to test with a live version of ubuntu 9.10. I used a usb pendrive for some time but it failed after rebooting a few times. Now i try to install a live version on a external HD of 160 GB. I installed the ubuntu 9.10 with unetbootin on the external HD. When I boot from the HD I get the error: NTLDR is Missing. Is it possible to install of load the ubuntu 9.10 version on a external HD. I found some stuff about
- using another USB stick with the live version and install from that USB to the external HD.
- using the live cd to install. But I don't have a CD drive on the machine.
i have a similar problem , i installed ubuntu 10.04 onto a pendrive, it all works fine , but the catch is i have to keep my pen drive inserted to get the grub menu. is there a work around to get grub to work off my hdd( my guess is it is in my pen drive along with the ubuntu files)
View 3 Replies View RelatedI downloaded the minimal boot image and installation CDs for F12 i386. On booting either I get the following messages:
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This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU:
cmov
Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU
Looks to me like the installation media for i386 doesn't have an i386 kernel! I'm trying to install to an i586 CPU.
I put Jolicloud on a pendrive to install it to my laptop, tried it out, didn't like it, and installed ubuntu with a CD instead. Now I want to use my pendrive for storage, so I popped it in, loaded up Gparted and formatted the drive.
Now, when I pop the pendrive into my laptop, Ubuntu thinks that Jolicloud is still on it, when Gparted says there are no partitions on the pendrive.
Screenshot:
How can I properly format the pendrive?
I know this can be done with install-grub command in recent ubuntu release. How can i install it from puppy linux or distro which does not use grub 2. Will my pendrive boot if i copy /boot/grub from ubuntu 10.04 live cd to /boot/grub of my pendrive?
View 5 Replies View RelatedRecently I switched to Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook edition in my Acer Aspire One D260, But now it's a major problem that how to locate and use my pendrive in it ?? I am sure that my Sandisk 8GB pendrive is showing there in the system storage options but I am getting it hard to use the same and currently unable to copy or paste data through the pendrive.
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhen I am using some pendrives, I am unable to write (copy) anything into them and end up with some warnings like "read only mode". I tried to change its permissions using chmod also, but it is of no use.
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View 9 Replies View Relatedcat /etc/fstab
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My problem:
When plugging in a pen drive it will be automounted, but only root (who owns it) has write access to it. Other users only have write access. (Neither my user, nor an unmodified test user)
My aim:
I want to be able to write on my pendrive without any additional manual work after plugging it in (iirc that is default on a standard ubuntu install).
Possible causes:
I once had a time where I wanted everthing to be minimal. Might be, that I removed something in connection with my problem. I reinstalled everything that came to my mind and could be connected to that problem w/o success. I merely removed stuff than editing stuff (never touched /etc/fstab or /etc/udev/rules.d/*). S
So I think I am missing some kind of service, that manages my (user?) permissions or so.
I use:
Ubuntu 10.04 (initially a kubuntu but I remove nearly everything Qt/KDE stuff) fluxbox (but most gnome services are active).
I tried/checked:
check my automount setting[1] - did not change the behaviour
media_automount - is checked
media_automount_open - is checked
usbmount - is installedntfs-config - did not help (even after reboot)
manual mount[2] - worked, but i don't want to do that everytime I plug in a pendrive
gksudo users-admin (made sure that amongs others the following entries are checked)
Access external storage devices automatically
Administer the system
Mount user-space filesystems (FUSE)
I didn't try:
chmod - seems to be only used for ext* fs
edit /etc/fstab - seems not to be supposed for such variable things like pendrives
- changing file systems for same pendrive
- different number of pen drives
- every pendrive needs its own fstab entry
udev rules - I was told to write some, but I am reluctant because- I never did that before (so I also didn't mess them up)
Additional info:
Code:
benedict@box:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).....
I've recently been trying to install Kubuntu Live onto a pendrive but I'm having some problems. Situation is as so:- Installed Kubuntu 10.10 desktop to 4Gb pendrive via Universal installer 1.8.1.2, with 2Gb allocated persistence.
- Reboot PC, boot from USB into Kubuntu, no problems.
- Configure WiFi connection.
- Reboot.
- Error: NTLDR is missing
I've tried this several times, always with the same result. As soon as I reboot, boot loader appears to be missing. I've read here:[URL].. that there are problems with syslinux and Ubuntu's version and wondered if this was the problem, but plenty of people appear to be running with this setup.
Does anyone have any ideas what may be the problem (and apologies if this has already been asked, I'm struggling to find anything pertinent.) For info, the pendrive I'm using has a small partition that acts as a floppy drive, could this have any influence?