I just downloaded a new copy of Ubuntu 11.04 and burnt it to a disc and made a LiveUSB. But whenever I try booting from the USB it starts loading, then goes into a black screen with a bunch of text. My computer booted from a live USB before and it worked.I have an Aspire 5552 if the helps and the USB I am using is a 4GB SanDisk Cruzer.
View 2 RepliesI've installed the XFCE iso of Fedora 14 (the 64x edition) onto a 4 gig flash drive. When I try to boot from the drive, a command-line (BIOS?) interface pops up with the following text (no prompt).
Code:
It hangs there without going any further. I'm currently downloading a different version of Fedora 14, so maybe it's just a bad install. Or maybe this is something that I should have encountered before. Any ideas on how to get it booted up?
I have a 4GB USB Flash Drive that I would like to install Fedora 14 Live on.
Process:
Downloaded the Fedora 14 i686 Live ISO file Used the Fedora LiveUSB Creator on my USB with the Fedora 14 ISO
I changed my BIOS on my Dell Inspiron E1505 to boot from a USB, then CD-DVD ROM, then Internal HDD Had USB inserted, then turned on computer.
Received the following message:
And then it sticks. I've found two other internet sites that have had this problem. One is in chinese, the other is in french. I know french, but the 'solution' was not clear.
I have the following trouble when I try to install Fedora 10 with a USB Flash Drive created by Fedora LiveUSB 3.6.3 [url]...ator-3.6.3.zip in a HP Mini-Note 2133 Notebook.
Everything looked ok during install, restarted the PC, get the booting count down and splash screen.
After some seconds then get this:
I use my Ubuntu LiveUSB (LiLi USB Creator) on various machines and everything works perfectly.
Though, even though I got the NVidia driver to work properly on my laptop, the "Desktop Effects" keeps getting turned off it seems.
For Compiz to work, I have to go to System - Preferences - Appearance and tell it Extra affects and Compiz will turn back on, though losing all settings.
Is there a reason Compiz and Desktop Effects are not getting persistence when every other part of the system has it?
I'm wondering if it's possible to write changes to a LiveUSB stick. As you probably already know ubuntu gets mounted to a ramdisk to improve performance and save your USB stick's life (I think so anyway, don't quote me on that).
I'm wondering if it's possible to write any changes made, such as changing running services and installed packages back to the USB stick without actually installing ubuntu fully onto the USB stick.
Switched off ubuntu when I installed windows 7 for a bit, didn't have time to learn the intricacies of both systems. Saw the new release and wanted to try it out. Followed the ubuntu instructions on how to install it and make a live usb. Using a 4 GB Sandisk Cruzer straight out of the box. When I boot to the usb, I get to screen that asks whether I want to run ubuntu from the USB, or to install it on my computer. Selecting the run from USB option shows a bunch of commands cycling through for a bit, then the screen goes black and just stays that way. Not really sure what the problem is. Trying to run the 64 bit version fyi.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI dont really use ubuntu too much, just for my programming class. Anyways I want to have ubuntu on a USB stick so I can use it on my laptop, netbook, desktop PC at home and desktop PC in class, all of which run Windows natively.
I would prefer the Virtual Machine (VM) on a USB stick but im not sure if its possible to install virtualbox (my VM of choice) on a USB drive. if not then a liveUSB, though correct me if im wrong but would i be able to save files on a liveusb?
If I do go with the VM on the usb stick option, i need an idea what size USB stick to buy so what is the bare minimum space you can run ubuntu on? I also intend to run OpenSUSE which is why i prefer the portable vm option.
I have recently setup Ubuntu 9.10 in my USB pendrive using LiLi USB Creator tool.
I have given persistence with 1530MB.
Now the problem is if i want to install any software from the Ubuntu Software center, it shows a message
Code...
I have no idea how can I solve this .
I can't log in to my current install of 10.04 (x server doesn't start, or whatever, not too concerned about that), and I would like to at least get my files from my home directory, but most of them are inaccessible when I boot up with my LiveUSB of 10.04, due to permissions, I suppose. Is there an easy way to get them? I know the password to my log in,
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View 3 Replies View Relatedim runing ubuntu 10.04.
i just had a init input output error, (and ubuntu wound not boot) so i decided to boot from my live USB to see my fstab file. It booted about 5 times then started to return an input/output ewrror (cant mount)
Hard drive checks ok as per the bios. Ubuntu will not boot and cant try any other OS (no CD drive) (I have tried 3 diffrent live USBs) what next?
not a ubuntu issue, and I tried it with UNEBOOTIN both on win7 and ubuntu... I can't make a bootable liveUSB with those. It either has a blank screen when booting through USB or it says some error occured... Any other known way to make one? I do not have an optic drive.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was using Ubuntu netbook remix 10.10 liveusb ver. and then someone unplug my power and then i unaware of it and leave it. after serval hours, i find it and the screen go blacke. when i reboot with the LiveUSB, i find it just same as not being used before. although it is what Live USB supposed to do if someone restart the computer with it, but i check the deafult setting when the battery become extremely low it should hibernate install, and why LiveUSB ver. would loss all data after hibernate as same as restart?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a USB with two partitions, one FAT32 with Ubuntu 10.04 on it, and one ext4 partition labelled casper-rw. According to the docs this should do to create a persistence installation, but I still get the "can't find persistence medium" error when booting.
Did I do something wrong or is this a bug?
I installed with unetbootin on the FAT32 partition and created the partitions using GParted.
When I boot from a live USB, it automatically logs in as the live user. I don't want that. I want to log in as a real user, without having to log out of the live user session first.I looked at all the options under system > administration > users&groups. Nothing seems applicable.PS, I did already create the real user and it's working fine. I just have to log out before I can log in as the right user.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI downloaded Ubuntu desktop 10.10 on to my Acer 5741 laptop (which I checked online for comptability), following the site's instructions to the letter. I used the USB installer to create a live USB which seemed to go fine. I then restarted as instructed and changed the USB to be selected to boot. However, from that point, the OS fails to load. I get several pages of code loading, then a screen with a logo at the bottom, then my screen just goes dark.
I've been using Windows 7 to download etc.
How to create LiveUSB using Linux?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI created a LiveUSB and that worked. On about the 3rd use I attempted to update packages - about 174 came up I think (I saw that number on another post which reminded me, hence the precision). Two or three dialogues came up, unfortunately unintelligible to me, a Ubuntu novice. Both concerned grub2. The first I just forwarded on and the update trundled on. The 2nd asked me something like whether I wanted grub to update sda or sdb. I checked neither (against the pop-up help advice). The update completed but when I eventually went to reboot from the USB I got a repeating fatal message: something like "Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.31-17-generic/.dep". I had to switch off. It did reboot successfully from a LiveCD.
View 2 Replies View Relatedim not very educated in amd processors, but i think that they are all 64-bit processors.
i downloaded the amd ubuntu 9.10 into my computer, and used the usb maker utility in the system menu. i put in in my new pc (it was given to me), and i tell it to boot into the usb.
then i get this. i am posting a pic.
sorry about the sideways pic. i took it with my phone.
anyway, i get the syslinux boot shell script thingy. i have tried lots of things. linux, vmlinuz, lots of other things i found online. so what im wondering is the exact name of the kernel in ubuntu 9.10 amd version.
I've been using a LiveUSB I created using unetbootin from Windows Vista/7.
Whenever I use it to install Ubuntu (done it a few times now) or as a LiveUSB to try and rescue my installation, it never shuts down or reboots. It just starts the cycle then hangs on the white Ubuntu logo. As it never gets past this, I'm forced to hard power off, and I'm concerned this could be damaging my mounted system drives? I've decided I should be unmounting before I try and shut it down now, is there a proper way to do this, and can I fix the LiveUSB itself?
I am using ubuntu 9.10...now I have created an USB startup disk in my 1gb pen drive with a persistence region of 200MB. But after I have booted into the live ubuntu version using the pen drive how will I access the reserved space?.. I have tried mounting the pen drive but still couldn't access the reserved space.
NB:-I have only one FAT32 partition in my pen drive...
I presently have a Karmc LiveUSB with a casper-rw partition, but am thinking of changing the LiveUSB image to Maverick, while still using the existing casper-rw partition and its data (mostly settings for Ubuntu itself, haven't installed any programmes). Using usb-creator, by the way. Are the config files for Karmic and Maverick significantly different that this will cause any major problems? [Separately, I think this will have implications for my existing Karmic install, because I'm planning to clone my Karmic /home partition to a fresh Maverick install.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a project I'm working on. And I have a Gateway solo 1450. So I am going to put a copy of Xubuntu on it. Does anyone here know how to launch a LiveUSB on a Solo 1450?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a memory stick of 8GB and I partition it like that: The first partition is a big one approx 7GB for file transfers and stuff like that - is a FAT32 file system On the second partition I made a opneSUSE 11.2 Live USB with the following command:
dd if=/path/to/iso/openSUSE-11.2-KDE4-LiveCD-i686.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M;sync
After that I plugged the usb in other computer to boot from USB but the system is freezing on a black screen.
I used the first partition for file transfer because Windows seems to see only the first one.
Can I make a LiveUSB with persistance that can boot on a Mac or a PC? I have heard about GRUB2 but I have been having trouble installing it. rEFIt can be installed on the Mac and used to boot the USB but I want a method that allows me to bring my flash drive anywhere and boot the OS. I want there to be no required software on the other computer. Is this possible? If so can anybody post a guide on how to do it?
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I noticed that the Linux Mint website lists support for more wireless cards as a feature and I am curious whether I can do this for the Ubuntu on my thumbdrive.
I want to carry Ubuntu with me everywhere on a LiveUSB but I want to encrypt the home with a strong passphrase in case it is lost or stolen. How do I do that?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIt only takes a few uses of a LiveUSB drive with a persistence file to fully saturate and generate "0 bytes remaining" messages. When this happens, you can no longer use the drive to install Ubuntu until casper-rw is resized or deleted or the USB device is reformatted. I think persistence shouldn't even be an option and that storing files temporarily in RAM is a better solution.
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