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1. Operating System Missing when booting with flash inserted
(Steven Duckworth)
2. AW: Operating System Missing when booting with flash inserted
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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:56:42 +0200
From: Steven Duckworth <[email protected]>
To: lubuntu user list <[email protected]>
Subject: Operating System Missing when booting with flash inserted
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Hi everyone.
Recently I've noticed that if I boot up with a flash drive inserted, I get
the message "Operating System Missing" (quite scary!!).
Normal booting occurs when the flash is removed.
Any ideas why this is happening?
I am using my laptop - a Fujitsu-Siemens Intel Celeron M (Pentium III)
circa 2005.
Thanks,
Steve
Steve,
Some major guessing here as the Pentium III era is from much earlier
than 2005. I think they *stopped* putting that chip (and it's Celeron M
counterpart) in computers in 2000 or 2001. That would put this laptop
right around the time USB flash drives came out. Rare that a computer
that old could actually boot from a USB flash drive (and that could be
the reason for the error right there), but possible I suppose.
My guess, if the computer is able to be booted from a USB flash drive,
is that the BIOS is set to look at the USB flash drive *before* the hard
disk drive to boot (and that the USB flash drive in question isn't set
up to be booted from). I'm also guessing a similar error would come up
if the optical drive had say a music CD in it and the CD-ROM drive
appeared first in the boot menu.
If my guesses are accurate, the solution is to either *not* boot up with
any USB flash drives in the machine, or get into the BIOS (a quick
Internet search tells me it's likely the [F2] key you press as soon as
the Fujitsu logo appears) and make the hard disk drive the first or top
option in the boot menu.
The BIOS itself should tell you the exact keys to press, but here is
some more guessing... You'd likely have to arrow right to the boot menu.
Arrow down and stop at the hard drive. Hit [Enter] to select the hard
drive "group," and then arrow down again to select one of the drives in
the hard drive group. Then press [+], or [-], or [U] or [D] to move the
hard disk drive above the USB flash drive, or the USB flash drive below
the hard disk drive.
Eric
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