![]() ![]() If I uninstalled Unetbootin from within Windows, there was then no boot menu whatsoever. There was only Windows XP and Unetbootin. However, I did not get an Ubuntu option on the boot menu. Though the flash drive option did not work, I used the "Hard Disk" option in unetbootin and successfully installed on my second drive. My computer will still not boot from flash drive, though I am thinking that it is old enough (2005) that the FDD option in the BIOS means "Floppy DisK Drive" (even though my computer does not have one), and perhaps will simply not boot from a flash drive at all. It seems like I should be able to do this from within the current Ubuntu installation, but I am unsure of how to proceed. I have a second 60GB hard drive in this laptop that I would like to devote to a proper installation of Linux. I attempted installation within Windows XP and was successful, though this is not an optimal solution. If anyone has any useful suggestions on this, I would be happy to hear them. I further attempted booting via flash drive, but this failed as well, despite changing BIOS settings. Also, a (cheap!) factory pressed Ubuntu CD could work as well. I am comfortable with tearing apart electronics, so if anyone has knowledgeable suggestions about any kind of maintenance I could do to the drive I would be happy to hear it. ![]() I updated the CD/DVD drive firmware to 102D (apparently the most recent), but to no avail. ![]() Replacing this drive is currently not an option, as I have no money for such things at this time. I reattempted using a burned DVD, which almost worked, but my quirky drive just couldn't quite handle it. This failed because my CD/DVD drive is quirky and does not like burned CDs, though it likes factory pressed CDs just fine. I attempted to do a proper install of Ubuntu 11.04 via booting of off CD. Reboot, and I can now run lmdexfce32_up6beta1_201301.iso installed on Hard disk.Ĭode: Select all # END /etc/grub.Laptop at issue: Toshiba Qosmio G25-av513 Next step, I proceed to install onto a pre-prepared / partition, as per normal installation procedure.ġ0. Just to summarise, unetbootin has frugal installed the iso into the running Linux OS and it has also modified grub legacy's /boot/grub/menu.lst, so that when we reboot the new boot menu allow us to select and boot the iso, and run LIVE mode.ĩ. select one of those, which is really similar to your usual menu on USB flash.įrom their written procedure and other forums, usually forumers said to select UNetbootin, which is really the default. Now reboot, the additional menu appear exactly as what unetbootin has modifiedĨ. Kernel /casper/vmlinuz boot=live integrity-check live-media-path=/casperħ. Kernel /casper/vmlinuz boot=live config xforcevesa live-media-path=/casper ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram rw noapic noapci nosplash irqpoll. Title Start Linux Mint (compatibility mode) Kernel /casper/vmlinuz boot=live config live-media-path=/casper quiet splash. Kernel /boot/ubnkern boot=live config live-media-path=/casper quiet splash. This is where the above note said: unetbootin will modify grub legacy. at the end, it should complete just like what you are familiar with using usb flash. on the last line, Type, you would see USB Drive by default, click the up/down arrow on its right, move mouse to Hard Disk and right click it. as usual, check 'Diskimage', and select the iso file by pointing to the right file location,ĥ. Either run from installed unetbootin or download linux version of unetbootin and run directlyĤ. Have some iso ready in your hard disk, for this illustration I haveģ. Running from a distro already installed in hard disk, which has grub legacy as boot loader and it is controlling MBR.Ģ. Later on I shall try experiment using grub2 and win7 and write down some information for people who are interested.ġ. Let me start from my 'master boot loader', the one that control MBR. When UNetbootin is run again, the uninstaller is run this will delete the extracted files (which is recorded using /ubnfilel.txt and /ubnpathl.txt) and restore the backed-up boot configuration files. ![]() The existing config file is backed up to or. On Linux, menu.lst (if using GRUB) or grub.cfg (if using GRUB2) is modified to add the UNetbootin entry. When run, this will uninstall UNetbootin by deleting the extracted files (which is recorded using /ubnfilel.txt and /ubnpathl.txt) and removing the UNetbootin boot menu entry. exe file is copied to /unetbtin.exe, and this is added to autorun upon the next bootup. This loads the GRUB4DOS bootloader, which is installed at /ubnldr and /ubnldr.mbr, and this in turn reads boot menu entries from /unetbtin/menu.lst. Code: Select all On Windows, UNetbootin modifies boot.ini (on 2000/XP), or uses bcdedit (on Vista/7) to add a boot menu option titled UNetbootin. ![]()
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