Unable to boot Ubantu 11.04 from USB
Hi guys, i'm new to this and i'm sure i've just gone and done something silly. I used pendrivelinux.com's live usb creator to install ubantu 11.04 on my USB. I tried booting my laptop with this, and i get an error message saying "unable to find a medium containing live file system" and I cant get any further than that. The laptop I am using is a Dell XPS with an i7 processor and 6 gigs of memory. I can try to provide any other information that would be helpful. Thanks
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Welcome to LQ.
Presumably you mean Ubuntu? (initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system This error is commonly due to the controller not being supported in the initramfs on the drive. Try the drive with a different computer. Try booting a live CD. I'd normally see this booting live CDs from optical drives plugged into high speed sata. |
Ubuntu from version 10.10 has a utility of its own and I have good luck using it. Below is from its documentation. It is Start up Disk Creator.
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fixed it
I needed to plug it into the eSATA port instead of the regular usb port. booted up fine once i did that
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Wow, I would have never ever suggested that as a solution. Thanks for the reply on that.
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Yep - you need a controller supported in the initramfs ... well done.
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Seems odd that the combo esata/usb (unless you have an odd usb/esata flash) port would read the usb as as esata when it should have been working in usb mode.
That is why I would have never tried it. I have a HP laptop, I guess I should see what is going on. Was it an esata/usb combo port or do you have a combo usb flash? |
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