On one of my home boxes and the ones at NCAS, there is a BIOS setting called Boot USB Device First separate from the boot sequence settings. If this is not set, it doesn't matter if USB is in the first boot position. It still won't boot. Does your system have something like this perhaps?
RD On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Phil Mullane<pmull...@san.rr.com> wrote: > My question now is: so far, on my home computers I have been going into the > boot menu and clicking on usb to be first in boot sequence. This hasn't > worked so far. Then I went into BIOS Setup and put usb first in boot > sequence. That didn't work either. There is another BIOS setting (other > than boot sequence), called HARD DISK DRIVE. The choices there are: 1) > "System BIOS boot devices" and 2) "USB Device". I am able to switch the > order so "USB Device" is first and "System BIOS boot devices" is second, but > I thought I better run it past you guys first. I'd hate to do it and find I > can't boot from the USB and I can no longer get into BIOS to switch it back > to "System BIOS boot devices". Should I leave HARD DISK DRIVE alone? Or > should I change it to "USB Device" > > Thanks, > > Phil > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Lowenstein" > <carl.lowenst...@gmail.com> > To: "Friendly list for people new to Linux" <kplug-newbie@kernel-panic.org> > Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 8:26 PM > Subject: Re: Installation to a USB > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Phil Mullane <pmull...@san.rr.com> wrote: >> >> Still no luck. When I do: ./unetbootin-linux-344 I get: >> >> ./unetbootin-linux-344: error while loading shared libraries: >> libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory >> >> I looked for libpng in Synaptic and I find: libpng12-0 is installed. >> I looked for libpng12.so.0, Synaptic can't find it. > > I think that you need to install "libpng-devel" in addition to "libpng". > That is where libpng12.so.0 comes from. -- KPLUG-Newbie@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
