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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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| 1167571 | 2011-01-16 08:16:00 | Thanks for the help. However, I have islolated the issue to the MSi U130 notebook. The USB drive boots to Ubuntu when used with an acer laptop that I borrowed to test the disk with. Have googled the issue and the notebook atom processor appears to be troublesome with Ubuntu. If anyone has any other pointers, I would apprecite any assistance. Thanks |
BusinessSage (13322) | ||
| 1167572 | 2011-01-16 08:35:00 | I have the ASUS Eee 1001PX with the Atom N450 CPU - no problems with Ubuntu here. | johnd (85) | ||
| 1167573 | 2011-01-16 12:05:00 | ...Have googled the issue and the notebook atom processor appears to be troublesome with Ubuntu...Wherever you found that, it's wrong. The default kernel that ships with Ubuntu will run on Atom CPUs (all versions / models) just fine. Your problem will be something else; it's not related to your CPU. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 1167574 | 2011-01-17 22:05:00 | Would the fact that I am installing onto the USB drive using an intel CPU make any differance to it booting on the atom. Thanks |
BusinessSage (13322) | ||
| 1167575 | 2011-01-17 22:17:00 | Probably not | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1167576 | 2011-01-17 23:59:00 | Would the fact that I am installing onto the USB drive using an intel CPU make any differance to it booting on the atom. ThanksNo (and for the record, the Atom *is* an Intel CPU). |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 1167577 | 2011-01-18 00:09:00 | But if you installed on a PowerPC and then tried to run on an x86 you might get problems (though I am not sure on that at all!) | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1167578 | 2011-01-18 00:09:00 | I have had a similar issue with booting from USB with netbooks. After some hair pulling I found that most will not automaticly boot from a USB device. You must manually enter the boot menu at POST and select the USB device. |
ughnz (8297) | ||
| 1167579 | 2011-01-18 01:42:00 | But if you installed on a PowerPC and then tried to run on an x86 you might get problems (though I am not sure on that at all!)This is correct - the PPC architecture requires a different type of executable format*, and as a result PPC binaries will not run on an x86 CPU, at all - you won't even be able to boot the kernel. Apple's method of addressing this problem when they switched to x86 was by bundling a low-level binary translator (Rosetta (en.wikipedia.org(binary_translation_software))) with x86 versions of OSX, which allows PPC binaries to be transparently converted to x86 binaries in the background as they are run. *Note that I'm talking about the stuff that the CPU executes, not about executable file formats (en.wikipedia.org). |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 1167580 | 2011-01-18 07:35:00 | Thanks everyone for your assistance . ughnz I have used both automatic and manually setting the boot disc at startup . The external drive is recognised and the lights flash when that disk is selected to boot from . However, all I get is a flashing "_" and nothing else . Have even left it running to see if it is a "slow boot" problem . I will keep plugging away at it . Many thanks again . |
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