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Booting a USB from the Grub command prompt
I have a USB drive that I know is bootable (tested it on a different PC), but because of an ancient BIOS, I am unable to set it as a boot device in the BIOS settings.
The computer I am using has GRUB ...
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How to boot Linux on a Mac with USB?
Although this question is even asked here before, the replies are outdated.
My Mac HD failed, an the machine does not boot anymore, but I absolutely need to recover the data in it. So I thought of ...
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booting Fedora from USB taking forever
I am trying to install Fedora 21 workstation from a .iso usb drive and it is taking forever. It allows me to select the live workstation, and then the white diagonal fill line goes up until it is ...
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Booting Debian from USB stick fails although Secure Boot is disabled
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (3rd gen.; 2015) with Windows 8. I used Unetbootin to create a bootable USB stick with Debian Testing (the USB stick is FAT32 formatted). When I plug in the USB ...
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Arch Linux UEFI bootable usb installation media
I want to install Arch Linux in UEFI mode, but I fail at booting the installation media in UEFI mode. What I have done so far is:
Create msdos partition table on usb key OR create gpt partition table ...
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Booting Linux From External USB Disk stops spinning
I have installed Linux (Slackware 14.1) onto an external USB Disk on which I installed LILO.
The boot process starts correctly loading the kernel but, after a while, I got in a “kernel panic” error ...
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How can I erase a 250gb external usb drive with linux partedmagic boot cd
I run a dual boot of windows 7 and xp on Dell Optiplex 280 with a Pentium 4 mobo, a CPU of 3 Ghz and 2GB ram. My question is "How do I use the ERASER TOOL in Linux Partedmagic Boot Cd to completely ...
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Can't boot off of USB after installing FreeBSD
So I recently installed FreeBSD on my desktop computer. It was very complicated, so I decided to switch to Debian. I tried to write Debian's boot.img file to a USB using the official Debian help page ...
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Ubuntu install hangs after creating partitions
I've been trying to install Ubuntu for quite some time now with no success. I was trying for a while with an older version, but now I'm trying with 14.04. I've tried to boot from a CD, but that ...
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Problems booting Linux via USB 3.0 port on a Dell laptop
I have a problem with booting any live Linux distribution from a USB 3.0 flash drive (Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3 16 GB) on my on Dell Inspiron 7520 laptop running the latest BIOS version (A11).
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Errors on Xubuntu 14.04 Startup
I recently changed my Dell Latitude E6440 Board. I am using Xubuntu 14.04.
I get those errors at start up. Here are the errors from the dmesg.
[ 2.812926] usb 2-1.8: device descriptor read/64, ...
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How to write from a linux boot cd to a usb with a mac
I bought a book about C and it comes with a livecd of a custom distro with scripts pre-loaded. My quandary is that my current macbook pro was not equipped with a disk drive. I have temporary access to ...
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Dell Inspiron 300m cannot boot any USB medium
I just got a used Inspiron 300M, which I'm trying to install Linux or BSD on. The problem is it has no internal CD drive, and will not boot from any USB medium.
USB stick with a FreeBSD image gives a ...
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Unable to mount X,X GB Volume
This issue occurs on x64 ubuntu 14. The volume is standard usb pendrive and an error look like this:
Regards
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Install linux on computer that can't boot from USB, but no CD/DVD available
I have a computer (A) that I want to install linux on. The bios on A does not recognize "booting from USB". I do not have access to a CD or DVD to create a boot disc. I do however have access to other ...
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