A week ago, I realized that I could not boot live disks. At first, I thought that it was the optical drive not writing the disks correctly, but when I tried two live disks that I've used many times before nothing happened with those either.
I have CD/DVD drive listed first in my BIOS' boot order and I even tried selecting the optical drive in the menu when the computer started and it still does not boot a disk. Thankfully, my somewhat old hard drives are still chugging along but I need to be able to use a live disk, in case one or both die on me.
My question is, how can I know for sure what the problem is? Is there a way to test the optical drive (Samsung Super Writemaster - which has a bad rep)? Could it be my motherboard. It was bought new 2 years ago, and there are no other issues with it. Also, I have been able to create playable DVDs on my computer with the Optical drive that work perfectly on my Bluray player, yet I cannot play the movies or open a data disk in file manager on my computer. What does that mean?
I want to know that it's worth it to buy another burner, before shelling out the money when I'm already practically broke from Christmas gift purchases. Any suggestions on how to test the optical drive would be appreciated.
I'm not really a newbie, but thought that this question would fit best in here. I had the genius (not really) idea of installing GRUB2 onto my USB flash drive, then realized that it wasn't such a great idea after all. I reformatted the USB drive and after that my computer failed to boot when it was plugged in (presumably searching the drive for a bootloader that doesn't exist). It does not even get to the BIOS screen unless I unplug my USB.
Then, I tried doing
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=1
and I still have the same problem. I'm not really sure what to do at this point.
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks.
No mouse pointer on loading Mint 17 onto new build computer: Asus A88XM-A mobo, AMD A6 7400K CPU, 4gb Corair xms3 memory, seagate hard drive, optical drive. Have updated bios to latest version from Asus web page. Mouse works ok in bios pages so believe mouse is ok.
Any ideas please?
I created a persistent USB thumb drive boot with LUKS for drive encryption (250 MB /boot and then 7.5 GB ext3 root). There's no swap partition because this is just to store some private files.
I want to make two or three copies of this thumb drive to store apart in case one gets destroyed/lost.
When I am booted from that thumb drive, can I plug in a same sized drive and just do a
Code:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc
command to make a copy of itself to another thumb drive without booting to another host OS? This way when I make changes to one (such as to update the OS, apps, or data), I could then just copy the entire thumb drive over to the other two while still booted in the original USB.
Or would I effectively have to shut down, boot to my normal host OS (or other), and then copy the thumb drives when not booted into them.
OK so I bought a dell precision workstation m3800 that came installed with Ubuntu. I want to switch out the hdd with a ssd and put Arch OS on there. It has no optical drive to install with a CD, so my question is if I can use a usb external optical device to install arch, and what problems might I run into?
My New ACER E5- 571 with Linpus Linux just got delivered and when I switched it on, it does not boot and shows some error.
neither does it boots from the optical drive.
Here is the picture of Failure.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...46467195_n.jpg
What do you think it could be, is it the problem with the HDD?
I have a PC with around 2 GB of RAM, a hard drive, a DVD drive, and USB ports, in a remote vacation home with no Internet access. I would like to install either Mint or Ubuntu and applications like LibreOffice.
In my permanent residence, I use Win 8.1 in a PC with internet access and Virtualbox to run other operating systems. I can use this to prepare the installation disks.
Is it possible to install the OS and then install software from a DVD or USB drive to a PC without Internet access? Also, is it possible to come up with a customized install disk containing the OS and software to install? If so, how do I go about preparing the installation disks?
Thanks for the help.
Booted my computer with 2 USB flash drives inserted. One of the drives turned out to be an MS-DOS boot drive. The PC booted in DOS and wiped out the partition table of the other flash drive with my data on it. This second (64Gb) drive had a single 64Gb type 83 (Linux) primary partition (ext4 file system).
Is there a way to recover the data that's on the second stick?
I've been told that all I have to do is repartition it exactly as it was and my data will be there. But I'd like to have advice from the pros here before I start messing with it.
For the time being, I dd-ed the entire stick, as is, onto a blank partition of my hard disk (dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda14). The process completed without errors but /dev/sda14 is unmountable for the moment.
Thanks for any help.
Computer:i5,8G,2x500GB HD. one of 500GB hard drive, /dev/sda, is installed Linux Mint Rebecca with 20GB boot/470GB home EXT4/10GB swap. I want to add one more 500GB hard drive, /dev/sdb, to create RAID 1 with old one. Is it possible? and How to command?
Hello
My harddrive on my home server computer seems to have corrupted, likly due to some recent power outtages (using it as a home nas, game server, nothing important really)...
It was previously running windows 7 because I took the harddrive from my old computer, but now as I have to format it anyway I might as well do it right.
Since my server does not have a CD drive (that works) I am hoping for a way to intall Debian onto the harddrive from my main computer (running windows 8).
I have plugged it in, and the drive seems fully functional.
I'm not very skilled with Linux, and am completely on bare ground. My googling has not come up with an answer that I have understood yet.
TL;DR - How do i install Debian onto a secondary harddrive plugged into my computer take this drive and put it into another computer and boot from it?
Hello.
I don't know if this forum is the correct one to ask about this problem. Feel free to move it to another forum.
I am running PelicanHPC, a Debian-live based clustering distro.
It sets up a DHCP server, and offer PXE boot to other machines in a network.
I have switch off the DHCP server in my router.
Problem is that when I boot from this computer through the network, it displays a message for a split of a second: Succeed download. I guess that it is downloading the NBP correctly. But then, it's just returning to BIOS and/or booting my OS normally.
The other computer is offering a non-EFI image, and this computer boots: UEFI: PXE IPv4. Maybe there is a mismatch, but I have no idea on how to fix this.
What can I do to boot it correctly?
If you need more information, just ask me about it.
Thank you