[clug-talk] problems with my eee pc

[Shawn]

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 <omnistegan at gmail.com 
> <mailto:omnistegan at gmail.com>> 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 <sean.halter at gmail.com
>     <mailto:sean.halter at gmail.com>> 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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