I 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?
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having major trouble installing Debian.erased the data on one of the partitons that used to hold Vector Linux and tried to install Debian on but it failed for some reason.Since I'm dead tired (well, was) I thought I would call it a night and just wait until tomorrow to finish the installation.So, I rebooted my computer and all it would do is this:
99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99
99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99
It would just do two or three rows of 99's and then it would hang. Does anyone know what is happening? Right now I have Windows on this computer and I can't even boot into that. The data for Windows is safe but I just can't boot into Windows for some reason.n erasing sda6, did I accidentally erase LILO too (Vector was the first option on LILO)?If someone has posted this problem in the past
I am attempting to install Ubuntu Netbook Remix (I even tried Ubuntu Desktop) off of a USB drive. I use unetbootbin to prep the drive, my BIOS is configured to boot off the USB Hard Drive, after booting up the computer I get a message that reads "BOOTMGR is missing, Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart" This laptop is currently running Windows 7 which, after removing the USB Drive, boots up fine.
I've seen other posts on this but they all refer to dual-booting and modifying grub configuration files. I'm not even to that point yet (and don't even want to dual boot, to be honest) - I'm just trying to get onto the "LiveCD" so I can format and install.
I ran update manager in 10.04 and after downloading/installing a few updates my computer will no longer boot. All I get when starting up is
error: no such device: 5bf7115d-b1e0-4c0e-aebe-6ffefdc7f3d0
grub rescue>
Where do I go from here?
I am a ubuntu user and I tried to install ubuntu on my sister's netbook too. The problem is that the netbook has a broadcom wi-fi n that is not supported by linux for now because I searched for drivers and other stuff an I found that it is not supported. After that I tried to format the disk and reinstall windows 7 but the problem is that the installation procedure gives me this error: "windows cannot be installed on this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enable in the computer's bios menu."
I tried to do all the things that are described here: [URL] but it's still not working.
Obviously when I format the drive with ubuntu and I put it in the netbook it's not working, it stops at the logo and the only thing I can do is entering BIOS.
I formated the drive with a windows os and then the pc makes the boot from usb but the problem persit...I still can't install because of that error :"windows cannot be installed on this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enable in the computer's bios menu."
Before installing ubuntu the sistem had kaspersky antivirus and detected 1 Trojan, it could be that a virus destroyed the bootsect...I don't think so.
I am trying to run Fedora on a Soekris 5501. To do this I have written F10 to an 8GB compact flash disk using Fedora Live USB Creator, with one 2GB partition for the OS and a 6GB partition for storage. I get the following error when attempting to boot:
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WARNING: Cannot find root file system!
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I've installed Fedora 12 64bit, but the computer crashes while booting, basically after the irqbalance or rpcbind steps.
Here are photos of the error messages:
Here are my hardware specs:
MB: Biostar TF560 A2+
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+
RAM: DDR2 800 Dual 128 bit, 2T (4GB)
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 3870
The sound and network cards are integrated but I've tried disabling them from BIOS and the problem persists.
Note that I've tried Ubuntu (32bit and 64bit) and it also crashes about 30 seconds after loading the graphical interface (either installer or login screen). Fedora's graphical installer worked flawlessly, tho. I've also tried SLAX (using it right now) and it works without any problems.
My computer runs Karmic and has quit booting when it is plugged in. I was told it was the AMP needing updated. How do I do that? I do the updates from the update manager, does this mean I missed the AMP update or is it done differently than through the update manager.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently switched my primary desktop over from Windows 7 to Fedora 14. I successfully installed the OS on to my hard drive and booted up, following which I installed all of the updates and rebooted. After my first reboot I downloaded the 10.11 Radeon driver and installed it (because the 10.12 was having an md5 hash issue), the install was (supposedly) successful, but when I restarted my computer it first progresses to this screen (copied from softpedia) and then goes black for a second, and then returns to that screen and halts at the end of the progess bar and does nothing. I am looking for help to get back into my system.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI just found couple of tutorials to help me boot Ubuntu using a USB on an old computer. This is exciting! Basically it works like this: Download a program and burn it as an ISO, and it allows you to insert your USB stick, and boot ubuntu (or other OS).
Anyone ever tried this? Because I am about to try it and I have some questions.
Once I download ubuntu, do I have to use use a tool such as UNetbootin to make it bootable, Or I just extract the contents of the ISO? btw here are the tutorials 1 and 2
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 9.10 on an old computer. Basic stats are a 350 MHz Pentium II, 768 MB RAM, and an ATI Rage IIc--not sure how much video memory at the moment. I managed to install XP on it at one point, but decided not to let it stay a Windows box.The computer won't boot from the Ubuntu 9.10 CD, nor the alternate install CD. It gets as far as displaying:ISOLINUX 3.63 Debian-2008-07-15 Copyright (c) 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvinbut the never does anything else. Anybody have some ideas about what is happening or what I can try or do differently?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently installed Ubuntu on my computer, and today after hooking up the internet for the first time it asked me to update. I clicked install, then restarted the computer.
While booting up it hangs up after the following is displayed:
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16
/dev/sda1: clean, 149460/2400256 files, 984175/9582764 blocks
I've tried ctrl-alt-delete, it restarts, asks me how I want to reboot, and whether I choose generic or recovery mode it still hangs up here. What can I do to be able to access my computer again.
I've been using Ubuntu for about one year. Recently upgraded to 10.04. The PC tries to boot, comes to the "Booting from device hd..." screen and then shuts down. It shuts down or halts but doesn't power off. The CPU is still powered. This happens for about 2 in 4 boots. The recovery mode runs just fine. It says no damaged partitions. Only the 'booting from device' is the problem point.
View 1 Replies View Relatedanyway, been using lubuntu for a week after instaiing it instead of ubuntu as that was running to slow and its been really good, intsllad a few programs (wine, filezilla, kompozer, devede)but when I turn on the computer today, it boots into GRUB and i select lubuntu, and afer a few moments the monitor goes to sleep as there is "no signal"it does the same on recovery mode, after displaying a few lines of command firstI can still boot into windows
View 5 Replies View RelatedYesterday I was working on my laptop using the windows 7 partition. At some point it froze and I ended up just having to shutting it down by holding in the power button. When I started it up, it said something along the lines of "can't find bootable partition".
So I made myself a ubuntu flash-drive, and ran
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sudo fdisk -l
This is my output.
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Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x74836e35 .....
when i changed the partion size on my new hdd when i booted up the computer it said grub 17 error and wouldn't load ubuntu
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo, first of all, this is my sisters computer so I am not sure exactly what happened. I had installed ubuntu alongside WinXp a couple of weeks ago. Today she booted into xp for the first time and accidentally launched some system restore option. A dialog box appeared and told that if she continued, everything on her disk would be erased. apparently, there was no indication of how to not to continue, so she shut it down by holding the power button.
Now, it won't boot. Not even to grub, it just cycles where the screen comes on, a courser blinks in the top left, and then it automatically restarts after about 5 seconds and repeats (unless one launches BIOS configuration). I assume something about the MBR has gotten messed up. I tried booting off a USB thumb drive, but it just accessed the drive for a second or two, and then went back into the cycle (I tried every USB socket, and the BIOS was configured properly to boot off external USB, also, I was able to boot my computer from the USB)
how to proceed if I can't even boot off of USB. Oh, the computer is Asus Eee pc netbook (no CD drive).
my computer is not booting from usb.i've tried using a lot of softwares unetbootin,hp usb format toll etc but none of them seems to work. my bios supports booting from usb (it has USB-ZIP and USB-FDD options in boot menu,and have selected the proper boot order).i've also tried installing puppy linux onto a usb drive but my computer just ignores it.is there any other option that i have to enable or is it bcoz that my pc doesnt support booting from usb.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm running Maverick on an Acer AO521 netbook. I've got a k125 processor and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 series video card.Since upgrading to 10.10 with the new version of gnome my computer has started getting stuck on blank screen when booting the GUI. Not every time, but most times i boot.If I boot to command line through GRUB there's no problem. When I try to run gnome from the command line i get the same problem.
View 8 Replies View Relatedmy laptop(dell xps m1330) takes around 2'30" to boot, I don't remember when it started but it wasn't always that slow. even looking at bootcharts I cant seem to figure out what that could be
full-size bootchart here: [URL]
btw it powers down in less than 5 seconds
after booting up the computer it says operating sytem not found.result of fdisk:
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ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
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My distribution upgrade got interrupted in a hard way and when I start the computer I get some errors:
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kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root on block 0, 0
or sth like this and a few more errors. Can't look the exact message as I am writing from the liveCD. On Gparted the boot looks normal and it is said that it's mounted but there is no mount point. There are things on the hard drive that I must save.
UPDATE2: As of 2 weeks ago, it won't boot at all. UPDATE1: HDD booted OK, but I don't know how to copy the GRUB file. Could this be a hardware temperature problem? I have just replaced a Hard Drive, & had to reinstall XP & 10.04.2LTS from scratch, (it was a TOTAL failure) The system now will not boot into XP, or either of the 2 Linux kernels or the recovery modes, without several attempts. ( I'm using a LiveCD now.)
POST is good. GRUB loads, but when I select an OS, it powers off. Windows shows the splash for a few seconds, then shuts down. Yesterday, I was able to boot into Linux after booting into Windows, but today Windows won't boot either. On examining the GRUB menu (e) the first line in the Linux records is 'recordfail' I will attempt to boot from HDD now, & post the GRUB output here. EDIT: If I run MEMTEST first, up to Test6, it boots normally.
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several months ago I installed Maverick and it worked well, but eventually I lost the GUI. I fiddled with it to no avail. So I decided to do the Natty upgrade and it ended up not fixing the problem though I am able to boot to graphics safe mode.
I popped on this forum and a couple others but got little response and ran out of fiddle time. SO now I have a little time to mess with this, and I REALLY want to move back over to Ubuntu so if any one is familiar with that could be the issue
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 recently install Ubuntu-studio Desktop and some other packages. And, I upgraded my System. But since then, the Grub has started to display (I have only 9.10 installed, using the entire Disk). Also, unless I select the entry, Grub does not automatically start. The startup takes nearly 1.5 minutes. And, the Login screen, after the installation of Ubuntu Studio GDM, is much slower. I removed the Ubuntu-studio GDM package, still it takes about 20 seconds to allow me to enter Username and password. Any idea?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a WinXP computer with two internal hard drives that are partitioned. I would like to setup a dualbooting system. I first attempted to install PC-BSD 8.0 from a DVD onto an external 640 GB USB hard drive. Everything looked it was going to work (including the boot loader program) until after the installation. PC-BSD took out the NTFS of the hard drive (with over 500 GB of Window files). And the bootloader never loaded on startup. It took two days to get everything back. The files created on this external hard drive could not be read by another linux operating system (Slax 6.1.1). I would like to load PC-BSD on one of my empty partitions (from my second hard drive). The manual for PC-BSD states PC-BSD has to be installed on a primary drive and not a logical drive. If you attempt a logical drive installation, PC-BSD will wipe out the entire hard drive on installation. Would it help if I format a logical partition to the linux file system and then attempt to install PC-BSD to it? I can use Slax 6.1.1 from a CD to format the logical partition.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a laptop with two partitions, one with Windows XP and one for storage (formatted in NTFS). I would like to install Ubuntu on the storage partition, but my problem is that I can't boot from CD (or anything else) because my BIOS is password protected. I obviously don't know the password. y question is: If I plug the laptop's hard drive into another computer, install Ubuntu as described above and then reconnect it to my laptop, will it work?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm very new to Linux but when I first installed it, I downloaded the Start-Up Manager so I could change the boot order. I have a dual boot Windows-Linux, I set the default as Windows. Recently my computer started booting to the system memory test in the grub menu instead of Windows. When I try to open the Start-Up Manager now it asks me for the password as usual and then does not start. How I would change it back to windows for the default? I'm running Ubuntu 9.10.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently installed another Linux distro, Kali Linux, alongside my Debian 8 and discovered to my chagrin that my computer boots to Kali's grub rather than to the Debian grub. I had spent some time customizing Debian's grub and would hate to see that effort go to waste. Is there a way I can get my computer to boot to Debian's grub instead? I tried deleting Kali's boot partition with gparted but that did not seem to do anything.
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