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I'm currently using Ubuntu 13.04 on my ASUS F201E laptop. I'm trying to install a new OS that is meant to be more compatible with my harware.

I've already created a bootable USB with the new OS on it no problem, and am now trying to reboot and install this new OS on my laptop.

My USB is recognized in the BIOS,(I can access the USB 'specs' in BIOS) however not in the boot preference options... It won't boot.

I've played around with other BIOS settings, nothing seems to work.

Any ideas?

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  • "I'm trying to install Mint" <-- I'm sorry, but that makes it quite off-topic here, I'm afraid. Mint is not Ubuntu.
    – gertvdijk
    Commented Oct 16, 2013 at 12:12
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    "I asked this same question about a day ago" <-- We don't re-ask questions here. Please edit/improve your previous question instead. askubuntu.com/q/359508/88802
    – gertvdijk
    Commented Oct 16, 2013 at 12:14
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    I asked it from a different perspective, trying to improve it.
    – Alison
    Commented Oct 16, 2013 at 12:26
  • You ought to have edited the existing question. That's how we do it. Don't worry, that would bring it to the top of the list, so it wouldn't go unnoticed.
    – Mawg
    Commented Jan 31, 2019 at 7:38
  • "I'm currently using Ubuntu 13.04" ... in 2109, six years later ?!
    – Mawg
    Commented Jan 31, 2019 at 7:39

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First of all, the bootable USB will not show in the GRUB menu, but it will just boot before GRUB loads. Something is wrong with the bootable USB. How did you create it?

I would use dd. It's a command line based utility that, among other things, can create a bootable USB stick.

So download the Mint image to, say, your Downloads folder, insert the USB stick and open a terminal. The steps are as follow:

$ cd Downloads
$ lsblk

The output shall be something like this:

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 465,8G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0   100M  0 part /boot
├─sda2   8:2    0    42G  0 part /
├─sda3   8:3    0     1K  0 part 
├─sda4   8:4    0 242,1G  0 part 
├─sda5   8:5    0  48,8G  0 part /home
├─sda6   8:6    0     8G  0 part [SWAP]
└─sda7   8:7    0 124,7G  0 part /media/data
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  
sdb      8:16   0 465,7G  0 disk 
└─sdb1   8:17   0 465,7G  0 part

Try to spot out which the USB drive is. You will easily recognize it based on the SIZE column. Please note that you need to spot out the USB stick and not any of its partitions (that is, the ones with TYPE = part). If any of the partitions of the USB stick are mounted, first unmount them all by typing for each of them:

$ sudo umount MOUNTPOINT

Then write the iso image to the USB stick (ALL THE DATA IN THE USB STICK WILL BE DESTROYED):

sudo dd if=<mint_iso_image> of=/dev/sdX

where X is the letter that corresponds to the USB stick and should definitely not be "a".

Disclaimer: Please note that if you are not sure which is your USB stick (or pick a wrong one), this process may have disastrous effects (ie. destroy your data on your hard disk). Please proceed with caution!

Regards, Errikos.

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  • Hi Errikos, Thanks! I'm in the process of doing that now. I just want to check a few things. I'll paste a copy of the readout from my terminal. Am I right in thinking my USB is sdb, with 7.5G in size? I think so... Also, the image I downloaded reads like this : linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-32bit.iso Does that look about right? The icon is a picture of a cd. I only ask because a friend of mine downloaded this version onto my usb stick and it took about two hours. Thanks for your help, much appreciated. I just want to check these things before I continue with it!
    – Alison
    Commented Oct 16, 2013 at 14:10
  • sdb 8:16 0 7,5G 0 disk └─sdb1 8:17 0 7,5G 0 part /media/sarah/C412-7B5C
    – Alison
    Commented Oct 16, 2013 at 14:19
  • I didn't have room to include the whole readout, but I only have the sda and sdb... the usb is 8G and has about 7.5G free space.
    – Alison
    Commented Oct 16, 2013 at 14:23
  • Yes, that must be your USB stick. But you first need to unmount the sdb1 partition: sudo umount /media/sarah/C412-7B5C. Then cd to the directory where the image lies and sudo dd if=./linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-32bit.iso of=/dev/sdb. How did he "download" the image onto the USB stick? Copy-paste like? That is definitely not how you create a bootable USB stick.
    – errikos
    Commented Oct 16, 2013 at 14:23
  • No he made the USB bootable and then downloaded the mint version from the website. It took about a second for me to download the image to my computer.. does that sound right?
    – Alison
    Commented Oct 16, 2013 at 14:28
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Since you said , " I've played around with other BIOS settings " , i assume that you have configured the correct boot order in BIOS.

The pendrive wasn't bootable.U can easily create a bootable pendrive with the help of a utility named Unetbootin.

To install Unetbootin , go to terminal & type :

sudo apt-get install unetbootin

after you are done with the installation , type :

unetbootin

to launch unetbootin.

Select the image file , pendrive and press ok.If you have plugged in only one pendrive to your system , Unetbootin will automatically detect the pendrive and will save much hastle for you.Once the setup is over, you are good to go.

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