that suggests your flash drive is not bootable. This could be as simple
as the "boot flag" needs to be set, or the OS on the drive is not set up
right.
For the boot flag, go into a terminal window, make sure the flash drive
is plugged in. now type in "sudo fdisk -l". This will give you a
listing of the known drives/partitions connected to the system. Find
the one that represents your flash drive - you *should* see an '*' under
the boot column. If you do, then the OS would seem to not be set up
right - a new install to the flash drive may be in order. Let us know
if this is the case, there are a few other 'gotchas' that can bite you
there...
If you do not see the * in the boot column for the flash drive, then
take note of which partition would likely be your boot device. Mine
says "Linux" under the System column and is device /dev/sda1. Now you
can type in "sudo fdisk /dev/sda" (note that there are no numbers
there). Then press A to set the boot partition, and W to write the
changes to disk.
Needless to say - be careful - FDISK can do damage to your system if not
used right. (i.e. remove partitions that are needed, etc.)
Now, try rebooting with the flash drive. If it still doesn't boot, then
you also have the second issue going. Again, if that's the case, let us
know...
HTH.
Shawn
sean halter wrote:
hi
I have not been able to get it to boot off of my flash drive.
It is a Kingston flash and I have an ASUS 1000.
I have tried pressing escape twice when I am starting and I have also
tried resetting the bios such that the boot device priority is the flash
drive.
What can I do?
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Omnistegan <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
What distro are you trying?
If it's ubuntu, you might want to consider trying the 9.04 Beta of
their Netbook distribution. http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/beta
Or you can wait for the Release later this month.
Right now I'm running ubuntu 8.10 with a custom EeePC Kernel on my
1000H.
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:14 PM, sean halter <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am having some issues with my eee 1000 with linux.
>
> I can never install all the applications that I want. For example, I
> install Gimp but it won't let me update Firefox because of issues
with
> repositories etc. or vice verse.
>
> The only advice that ASUS gives is to do a clean install and
start over. I
> must have done that at least 10 times by now and I still can't
get it right.
>
> Is there an install fest upcomming or someone willing to help me
with this?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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