I'm looking to run linux from a usb key without booting from it. Just plug it in and it starts from windows. I seem to recall something like this but can't find it. I found portable apps and portable ubuntu(site seems down) but nothing like I described
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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've just finished booting my system via Live CD, and installing 10.04-1 to existing partitions on a hardware RAID. The install went fine but when I rebooted I didn't get past the BIOS output screens.I used four existing partitions for the install: /home (MyRAID3, which was kept as-is), / (MyRAID2, which was reformatted) , /boot (MyRAID1, also reformatted) and swap.
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
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I 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 try to install Fedora 11 from DVD BUT after installation system is not booting. Windows XP is a 1st OS is already installed in my system.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have downloaded the 10.04 desktop image of ubuntu & installed/unpacked it with Universal USB installer as it sujest on the official site onto my Sandisk 4gb usb flash drive. And now when i restart it doesnt boot...i've tried already setting bios to USB-FDD & USB-HDD as my primary boot device but still it just loads into windows....and btw in windows it reads the drive that means that the usb port is working correctly...so what is my problem? Or maybe I should install it on the usb using some other way.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an old dell laptop that I want to put ubuntu on but it doesn't have a cd drive, I can't boot from a network, and the bios doesn't support a usbdrive. It does have a floppy drive and I wanted to know if there is a bootfloppy that allows me to boot from a usb?
View 2 Replies View RelatedYet another "dual XP+Ubuntu" boot problem for everyone.
My neighbor wanted to try out Linux as he did not want to pay for Windows 7, so I offered to install Ubuntu as a dual boot. Ubuntu 9.10 boots and works fine, but now Windows XP will not boot. It just sits in a blank screen with flashing cursor after selecting Windows in Grub.
So, it is a Dell, originally with two partitions, one large one with Windows XP and a small one with HP's recovery partition. Here are my steps.
1. Using a Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit CD, I booted into a Live Ubuntu session.
2. Using GParted, I resized the Windows partition.
3. Installed / on the free space, did updates.
4. Delivered to neighbors house, showed them Ubuntu, and when I tried to restart into XP from Grub, I get a blank screen with flashing cursor.
I looked at the SuperGrubDisk and it seems to only work with Grub1, so I did not want to try as at least one OS boots and I did not want to risk messing up Ubuntu as well.
I've used Ubuntu for a couple of years now, and it is by far my favorite operating system. Although, I am now reluctantly switching to Windows 7, due to lack of support for the Apple Airport Extreme.
My CD drives are incapable of recognizing the DVD that I burned of Windows 7.
My only other option now seems to be to boot directly from the Windows 7 iso that I have.
I am using Ubuntu 9.10.
I'm a noob when it comes to this kind of stuff, so bear with me. Ok so my computer has 4 hard drives, a 640gb, 500gb, and two 320gbs. I have the larger two on a raid 0 array, which is also where I have windows installed. I installed Ubuntu on one of my spare 320gb drives, so that I wouldn't have to worry about partitioning. But now every time I boot my raid array in order to boot windows, grub will load and my computer will boot Ubuntu instead.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have one hard drive and one operating system on that one drive. No dual boot, no raid, no windows, no usb boot. Just 9.10 installed on one 40 gb drive. After trying the various techniques from this forum, I'm now stuck at Grub loading, error, grub rescue prompt. No menu list to choose from or edit (e).Here is the output of 'sudo fdisk -l'
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ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40000000000 bytes
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I am trying to install Ubuntu 9.10 on a laptop. The laptop does not have working cd-rom or an operating system installed. I was hoping to install via USB cd-rom. The bios is an old one and will not allow booting from USB. Does anyone know of a way for me to install?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am running dual boot on ubuntu 9.1 with windows xp SP3 32 Bit. I would like to add another partition and install windows 7 64 Bit ( I know my hardware will handle it I checked). I don't know much about ubuntu and I was wondering will the bootloader automatically detect a new partition with win 7 x64 on it? Or if what I said made complete nonsense,How do I run Windows xp 32 bit, Ubuntu Fiesty 64bit( 32 bit mabey ) and Win 7 32 bit all on one pc?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have installed 10.04 Netbook remix, installation went find and rebooted..Now all i get is a black screen after bios finished loading. I guess it is something with the bootloader
View 9 Replies View Relatedi have mistakenly deleted a partition to create space after uninstalling Ubuntu. now my computer says
GRUB loading.
error: no such partition
grub rescue>
i am a newbie and have no idea how to get to win 7
My installation went fine but minutes after login ubuntu just freezes up. I'll show my PC Configuration here.
OS NameMicrosoft Windows XP Professional
Version5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS ManufacturerMicrosoft Corporation
System NameLADYOFVELANKANN
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on lot of searching I was told that there is an issue with Intel 82945G Chipset and advised me to take a graphic card.What can be done to avoid this. Even I tried to install Intel video driver ut it says it is installed by default. P.s: On BIOS setting I even changed my Video Memory from 128 to MAxDVMT but of no use.
I had Ubuntu 10.04 installed on my machine and I updated to 10.10. When the pc rebooted the following appears:Ubuntu Maverick (Developer Branch) "computer name here" tty1And it asks me for my username and password, after that is justs stays there, I've tried the startx command but with no luck
View 8 Replies View RelatedI created a bootable flash drive using Ubuntu's instructions on their netbook website. However, when I try to boot from USB after setting the BIOS accordingly, it still boots to windows. When I choose Boot Options Menu, which should just let me pick USB, only "Netbook Harddrive" is listed.
It seems that the USB actually isn't bootable or something. (Running Windows 7 Starter now)
I have installed ubuntu a week back and since then i am Loving it. I have a couple of quries.
1) Since the launch of ubuntu 10.10 is very near i suppose it is almost safe to upgrade to ubuntu 10.10. I had done the following to upgrade. update-manager -d and upgraded to 10.10. The system has failed to boot after that what should i do to safely upgrade the software. Is it required to uninstall all the drivers prior to the upgrading of the os?
2) How can we take backup of the data we have in ubuntu? for example pictures and music folders etc?
Now i have safe and superbly running 10.04 version. is it recommanded to upgrade to 10.10 now?
I have Win 7 in my hard drive (sda) and I installed Ubuntu 10.04 in other hard disk (a usb disk), but when I try to boot my pc from the usb disk (sdb), the grub shell is displayed. No menu is displayed. When I boot Windows 7 from sda, it runs correctly. The problem it's when i wanna boot Ubuntu. I ran bootscript on the live CD and this is what I've obtained:
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Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb and looks on the same drive in partition #1 for /boot/grub.
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I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 in Dell Inspiron 1525 which was having Windows 7.Now when i select Windows entry in GRUB menu for booting the OS is not getting loaded instead it goes to the GRUB menu again. The same happened in my Home PC with Windows XP.Please tell what i have to do for fixing the error.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a micro-atx box with a CF reader that pretends it's an IDE HDD. You can boot off this thing and this is intended to be a "diskless" system. The vendor claims only 17 watts when at rest.My plan is that this will be a printer & backup server but the backup drive will be a USB drive that will only be turned on when needed so I want the box run without a HDD if possible.
My concern is the limited write cycle life of FLASH drives. I bought the best quality I could but I still want to preserve it as long as possible.I formatted it as ext2, for example, to stop the journeling writes of ext3 or ext4.Has anyone created a check list of configuration settings that will give the flash the longest life possible.
I'm trying to install ubuntu 10.10 on my mini-pc homeserver. Installation goes fine, but when I reboot it says "no boot device found". I checked the bios, it's set to boot from hdd, so that should be fine. When I press F10 during post, I can enter the boot menu, where only my hdd is listed. When I press enter it boots just fine. I tried using 1 partition only, tried multiple partitions, but it makes no difference. I didn't change anything to the bootloader configurations during install, just used standard settings, which is install bootloader to sda/hda
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to get a triple-boot setup working with rEFIt and OSX 10.6.5/Win7/Ubuntu 10.10. I'm finally to a point where rEFIt shows a OS X, Windows, and Linux option but the Linux item boots up windows. I just finished booting the live CD and installing grub on the ubuntu partition, but rEFIt is *still* booting windows with the Linux menu entry (and no new entries have appeared since the GRUB reinstall).
Here's what the rEFIt partition inspector is currently showing - can anyone spot any problems? Note: Currently I have 5 partitions (OS X @ 60GB, Win @ 120 GB, Ubuntu (swap) @ 2 GB, Ubuntu @ 58 GB, and a general storage partition (formatted in OS X's HFS).
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Report for internal hard disk
Current GPT partition table:
# Start LBA End LBA Type
1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT)
2 409640 117597143 Mac OS X HFS+
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Since upgrading to 10.10, I've been unable to boot the 2.6.35 kernels, either -22 or -23. I've been booting with the 2.6.32-25 instead, but I would like to get this resolved.
I can provide more detailed info at request; the output of lshw, if that'll be useful, or details of GRUB.
I have an acer laptop with ubuntu 10.10 running parallel with windows 7. I installed ubuntu using wubi installerA few weeks ago I updated my system from ubuntu 10.4 to 10.10 and had problems booting to ubuntu. I copied the c:ubuntuwinbootwubildr to c:wubildr after which I was able to boot to ubuntu and it was working fine.Today I have allowed an update on ubuntu and have the same problem as before. I cannot boot into ubuntu anymore but can boot into windows. I get an error No wubildr when I try to boot into ubuntu.I have tried doing the same copy of the wubildr file but still getting the error.
View 7 Replies View Relatedmy ubuntu partition is not booting at all, GRUB loads fine but when select ubuntu, it is just a small white line (the terminal carrot thing).
View 4 Replies View RelatedI want to set up a system with two windows oses.
a) Windows 7
b) Windows XP
Windows 7 will be installed to one partition, and xp will be restored to a second partion from a ghosted image. I don't want the headache of having to guess who or what is fighting to control the boot sector. When the fight is over I simply want to walk up stick in a cd run a utility and install a booter/loader over what ever is there. I want to be able to do it adhocly so it must be able to on install always scan for any already installed OSes and set them up in a nice selection menu at boot.
GRUB 2.0 came to mind. What I want to know is if that sort of thing is possible. Can I install/restore multiple OSes to a disk, and then when all is done pop in a live CD and install/repair GRUB 2 to the system? Even if UBUNTU or any linux is not on the system and have it perform the above scenario as described?
I have been having trouble with my latest LinuxMCE core server (based on Kubuntu 8.10). It will load the OS with no problems on the IDE drive, unless I have another, or multiple, hard drive installed. It doesn't matter if I loaded onto the IDE or SATA drives, it gives me the "ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid....does not exist. Dropping to shell." I thought it might be the loader, as just to get it into 'live' mode I need to enter 'pci=nomsi'. I tried to load Fedora (to try AMAHI), but it just sent me into a grub loop. If I try to have the second disk installed while running the install, it gets frozen at the busybox. The whole reason for going to this combo of system and OS was to be able to have multiple pci/e cards for security, TV tuning, etc, and have a minimum of 8TB onboard which can stay on 24/7/365. 120 gig just won't cut it!
Basic system:
XFX 750a motherboard, nvidia 8200 graphics, onboard sound LAN sata raid, etc
AMD BE-2300 DualCore @1900mhz
Trendnet teg-pcitxr Gig LAN card (need two LAN for MCE)
Seagate st332000542as hard drive (unformatted, plan to use as storage)
WD1200 PATA drive/ WD1200 7200rpm laptop SATA that I'm trying to use as / (one at a time!)
Samsung external DVD to load OS
I hope to eventually use the laptop drive as the root to keep running costs down.
