I am trying to setup an older PC (Yes it can boot to USB) with Ubuntu and have only the /boot partition on a USB Thumb drive. Not running the operation system from the USB but to have the OS installed on the internal HDD and only the /boot on the USB Thumb drive, I do not want to run the operating system from the USB Thumb drive.
What i would like to do is.
I have a USB drive with Ubuntu installed on it (on a Live USB, it actually has Ubuntu installed on it), and it works seamlessly when I try to boot my PC from it. The thing is, when I try to boot my mac (Mac Book Pro 15" 6,2) off of it, it wouldn't recognize it. I tried installing rEFIt and rEFInd on my Mac but niether seemed to help. How can I make it work?
I'm trying to boot Xubuntu from USB Flash Drive on my old laptop Fujitsu-Siemens but it shows "Missing Operating system. Operating System not found". Although the Flash Drive works on my current laptop.
Can I make DOS USB Flash Drive with (x)Ubuntu Live CD on it?
I tried various windows programs to make a bootable USB, and Xubuntu Startup-disk without success.
Hello All,
Here is the deal. I'm trying to dual boot Snow Leopard and Ubuntu on an old mac I have (It's a 2008 Core Duo Plastic Blackbook, version 4,1). I just purchased a new hard drive, installed it and put Snow Leopard on. I then partitioned the hard drive and installed rEFIt, which worked great.
Hi, I installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 64-bit LTS beside my Win8 which is 64-bit, too from a memory flash drive. The problem is there is no such a list to select one of the installed operating systems. The computer itself runs Win8 automatically.
Ubuntu is installed on a 32 gigabyte flash-drive and it successfully booted every time up until I partitioned my hard-drive and installed Windows as a secondary boot (for programming reasons).
Now every time I attempt to boot the Ubuntu flash-drive it boots into Windows XP.
I used gparted to shrink the swap space and add it to the drive that had Ubuntu installed in it from Live boot. After doing so, I restarted the computer and then found a black screen saying just this:
No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key.
Help. Thanks in advance.
Edit: I installed grub again, mounting the drive in which Linux is installed. Still, it gives the same message.
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 successfully and rebooted (I took out my installation CD), and selected the newly installed Linux partition to boot from rEFIt. Then it just comes up with an error "Error loading operating system" which could not be more vague. Take that back. I guess it could say just "error." I don't even get to the boot prompt which limits what I can do. I cannot boot into rescue mode.
Hello ,
I installed Ubuntu 13.04 using 'Universal Usb Installer' on my windows8 laptop in C:/ drive. Every time I restart my computer, and even when I try to boot from BIOs, it just takes me to my Ubuntu login.
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