I 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.
I have an Eee PC 701 4G, and some time ago I disabled its wireless NIC in the BIOS to save energy. Now I've come to need it working again, but I can't re-enable it, because it always goes back to being disabled after I boot the eeebuntu installed on the machine. If I just enable it in the BIOS, reboot and go into the BIOS setup again, it's still enabled, but if I let the OS load it'll get disabled. I'm really at a loss here, how do I find out what's wrong? Could it be Ubuntu that does this?
My problem, GRUB loader appears when it normally did not and Ubuntu fails to boot. My story, I installed ubuntu on a HP Touchsmart laptop a month ago because I was having troubles with Windows and... well I just wanted to install ubuntu. All goes well until a week ago when my sound was permanently muted through a hardware switch and ubuntu was not detecting it. I tried hitting the button on my laptop but nothing worked. Soo... I tried resetting my BIOS in hopes that it would fix it. I set the bios to its defaults and booted. This is where it got weird. the GRUB loader appeared when it normally did not and upon booting, a black screen with flashing cursor would show up and then... nothing. I changed the bios settings back to what they were and still nothing.
I have removed the silent boot from the GRUB boot line and can see whats going on... a little, the last thing it shows is "Running /scripts/init-bottom ... done." annnd nothing else. When booting in recovery mode it stops after 30 or so seconds on...
Code: ACPI: Power Button [PWRB] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/inp
and just ends on that line. the previous line shows closing the Lid as a button.
I have tried booting into a live USB (as the laptop has no cd drive) and everything works fine.
When I start my computer sometimes I get an error that my floppy drive isn't working and the boot process is halted. So I disabled the floppy disk seek. But Once in a while (sometimes almost every time I start) the BIOS settings are reset and I have to disable floppy disk seek and reorder boot device list again. I have checked the battery and it's fine. What else can be the problem?
Is there some workaround by changing grub settings other than rewiring the hard disks or changing in bios.. 1. my bios is getting reset (low battery) 2. my hard disks are sata and ide, so the ide one is loaded as hd1 by default, cudn't find any way to change that..
So 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.
I'm unable to reset using either the reset option in gnome shell or the command using a terminal. When I select it the shell exits and displays the graphic "exploding" and then it just sits there. Shutdown works fine; just no reset. Any ideas? I've installed from the DVD. I booted the live CD and it resets just fine so I know it's no my hardware
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..
Today 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 have an 8gig mp3 player and I was wondering if it was possible to install Unbuntu on it, as if it were a bootable pen drive, without destroying it's ability to function as a stand alone mp3 player.
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?
While 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?
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)
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.
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?
Recently 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.
When 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.
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?
I have a Pen-drive which is affected by virus. I wish To format it, i tried to format it in GUI mode but i was unable to do so, then i tried to remove the files in pen drive by using rm command but an error msg that the file system has the read only permission so can't be deleted occur, then i tried to remove the read only permission by using chmod command but still the error that the file is read only permission was unable to change.
cat /etc/fstab mount ps -A ls -al /media/ dmesg groupsfootnotes
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?
When I have several documents open in OpenOffice.org and save one of them to my Pen/Flash drive, and then try to unmount, it won't let me. It says an OpenOffice document is using the drive. Here is the problem: The document refers to isn't the one I just saved to the Pendrive. It's a document saved on my Hard Drive! I close it (which should not be necessary) and try unmounting again. Now it tells me to close the document saved on the Pendrive.
I don't understand why I need to close ALL Openoffice documents to unmount the drive. Not sure if this is a bug in OpenOffice or in Ubuntu. Either way it's annoying and is a complete waste of time to be messing around with closing and opening documents every time I want to unmount an external drive.I have tested this on various computers all running Ubuntu 9.10, with both Gnome and LXDE. Same results. Ubuntu, I hate you!
When I remove "safely" my usb pendrive all my hard drives and partitions get unmounted. It's not permanent I just have to close the session and start again but sometimes it's kinda annoying because I'm in the middle of a lot of work and have to close everything... and if I'm working with a file in that drive sometimes I lose it...
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
What happens on my computer is this: when I insert my Walletex business card-shaped pendrive into any USB port, everything works fine, and so does unmounting using the right-click "Eject" option.However, when I try to unmount the device using the other context menu option, "Remove device safely" (or something like that; sorry, I'm using a localized version of GNOME), it does unmount it, but then mounts it right back on. The weird thing is that after it does it, if you try using that same unmount option again ("Remove safely"), it actually works! And I can replicate this issue every time: the "Eject" context menu option works the first time every time I try it, but the "Remove safely" one, when used for the first time per device insertion causes an unmount and then a re-mount, and works the second time you try it
I 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?
I am running Ubuntu 9.04 on my Acer Aspire 5100 laptop. Normally, when I put it to suspend to disk mode, it fails to wake up cleanly. I mean, it wakes up but the X is corrupted with lot of flickering. Ctrl + alt + backspace doesn't set it right. But when I insert my Photon Plus Broadband pendrive into the USB, the flickering immediately disappears and I am presented with the clean, shiny desktop. The problem is that the flickering doesn't stop until I insert the pendrive.
