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I downloaded Unetbootin so I could try out a few distros using my 2GB USB Drive. I tried putting Puppy Linux on it but it was giving me errors when I tried to boot from it. I then put Linux Mint on it but can't get my computers to boot from usb drive either.
I formatted the usb drive for FAT32 which is what it says to do on the Unetbootin site.
Can your computer boot from a USB drive? Some can't.
It's also possible that the USB drive's master boot record is messed up. You might want to copy mbr.bin from the syslinux package to the USB drive's MBR (using the dd command as root, as shown below, where /dev/sdx is the USB drive) then try reinstalling Puppy. Be careful - you don't want to mess up your system's main drive!
I don't recall but I just tried booting from my laptop and all it said was "Remove device and press any key to restart" or something like that. So I am pretty sure it is the USB Drive.
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Originally Posted by RockDoctor
Can your computer boot from a USB drive? Some can't.
My laptop definitely can. This Asus EeePC I am not so sure about though. I would like to install Linux Mint on it since Win7 Starter is kinda slow on it.
Did you get any warning/error messages when you used unetbootin? or did it seem to complete successfully?
It's very helpful to have error or warning messages you get when you fail to boot. Too many possibilities for anyone to do more than guess at possbile solutions.
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I don't recall but I just tried booting from my laptop and all it said was "Remove device and press any key to restart"
That would be the expected behavior when rebooting from a Live CD (on a CD or flash drive) but not when booting. If you get that when you are trying to boot, something definitely went wrong. You might try running unetbootin again or at least try to boot again and note the errors you get as the more details you can give the more likely someone can help.
Try the live (as opposed to the installer) disk of Salix. That doesn't use unetbootin: the iso contains Linux and Windows programs to make it bootable. If that doesn't work, it may be your computer. http://people.salixos.org/tsuren/doc...x_Live_USB_Key
@pcfast:
The error message that you're getting is clearly saying that your system can boot from USB, but USB doesn't contain files needed for boot from the USB. You should either try some other distro, or use some other utility to extract the OS image into USB, like Universal USB installer.
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For the EEEPC this applies:
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Originally Posted by jefro
Also bios is an issue. Many bio's see the usb as a hard drive so you move the hard drive order and not the usb selected first.
You boot from USB by plugging in the USB device then changing the boot order of the hard drives to put it first (I'm typing this on an EEEPC which I have booted from a few USB sticks).
Trying out Linux Mint on my laptop from the USB. Not sure why it is working now but I downloaded the ISO and then put it on using Unetbootin erasing Puppy Linux.
Was not aware of that issue with Asus EeePC's boot order. So I do the boot order setting the HD first?
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