[YLUG] Oneiric Ocelot Edubuntu install.

[David Morris]

When in doubt, try different hardware :)

Glad it came out alright.

D

On 22 December 2011 16:31, Kit Hamilton <kit.hamilton at o2.co.uk> wrote:

> Sorted thank you, with a little help from a USB optical drive. Booted from
> the CD much more easily.
> Have a great Christmas.
> Kit
>
> Sent from Kit's 'phone
>
> On 21 Dec 2011, at 08:00 PM, David Morris <davidrowlandmorris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm going to assume that the only thing you've done with the netbook is
> modifying the BIOS settings i.e. you haven't successfully booted into any
> kind of installer or partitioning tool.
> >
> > First thing to do is to unbrick it. I've yet to encounter a BIOS that
> doesn't have sensible defaults, so the thing to do here is to go into the
> BIOS and reset it to factory/default settings. This is normally easy. Save
> BIOS settings and reboot. Hopefully at this point windows will boot
> happily, or at least with minimal complaining. If it doesn't, post details
> of the error screen and we'll see what we can do.
> >
> > Next step is to get it to boot from USB. If, as Tom says, the boot order
> is ignored, there's no point modifying it, so you should be able to leave
> the BIOS with default settings. All the documentation says that to get a
> boot device menu from an eeePC, you need to hit Escape during the BIOS. The
> thing to remember here is that the BIOS tends to be slow and unresponsive.
> It's not a question of tapping the key with perfect timing; just hammer it
> from the moment the computer starts to come on until something interesting
> happens.
> >
> > So, put the USB drive into the computer, reboot it, and keep hitting
> escape until you get a little menu of boot options. At this point, you
> ought to be able to select 'USB Drive' or something like that, and you
> should get to the installer you expected.
> >
> > If you don't get an option for 'USB Drive' (or whatever), check in the
> BIOS that all possible boot device options are enabled, and enable them if
> they aren't. If that doesn't help, make sure that you actually have a
> bootable USB drive - try re-making it, and if that doesn't work, post
> details of how you're trying to make it bootable, and we'll give you a hand.
> >
> > If you still have no luck (or if the above makes no sense), then if you
> can bring the netbook into the centre of York at some point tomorrow, I'd
> be happy to take a look at it.
> >
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > David
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