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| Thread ID: 115177 | 2011-01-06 04:47:00 | Boot Ubuntu form USB Drive not working | BusinessSage (13322) | Press F1 |
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| 1167561 | 2011-01-06 04:47:00 | Hi All, I have put Ubuntu 10 . 04 . 1 on a imation 320GB USB 2 . 5 inch drive . When installing Ubuntu I used a LiveCD on WinXP machine . I set Grub to load onto \Dev\sdb as this seemed to be the USB drive . I have a MSi U130 Notebook that has been set to boot off the USB drive (amoung other USB devices) . Notebook is running Win 7 Starter, fully updated with latest updates from Microsoft . My problem is that I am unable to get the U130 to boot off the USB Drive . Am looking for pointers to where I might find a solution . Was unsure as to what additional information you might need if any . Thanks |
BusinessSage (13322) | ||
| 1167562 | 2011-01-06 08:36:00 | I take it the USB drive does boot on the other machine? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1167563 | 2011-01-08 07:17:00 | I suggest you try this - boot to the Ubuntu CD using your XP machine. Use system-> administration-> startup disk creator (I am using 10.04 so this might be slightly different). I regularly make startup pen drives using this method and they normally work! | johnd (85) | ||
| 1167564 | 2011-01-08 23:47:00 | While its booting up, tap F11, does your external HDD show up on the boot device list? | Blam (54) | ||
| 1167565 | 2011-01-09 08:56:00 | You should make sure grub (and fstab) are using UUID's to identify volumes. When using an external drive the labels could change from what is expected by the config files. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1167566 | 2011-01-09 10:56:00 | I always use this. http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ |
Roger Hunt (13648) | ||
| 1167567 | 2011-01-12 04:03:00 | Thanks for the reply's. Just one question of fred_fish. How do I check that grub is using UUID's and how do I know it is using the correct UUID. Thanks |
BusinessSage (13322) | ||
| 1167568 | 2011-01-12 06:35:00 | See help.ubuntu.com :) |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1167569 | 2011-01-12 06:48:00 | See help.ubuntu.com :) I think that site is out of date since it is referring to menu.lst which is part of GRUB legacy (Ubuntu uses GRUB 2). I think the easiest way is my method given above. (Ignore my bit about 10.04 as I have just noticed you are using the same!). |
johnd (85) | ||
| 1167570 | 2011-01-13 22:52:00 | Thanks for the pointer fred-fish. Will follow johd advice. Thanks |
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