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xadder
March 12th, 2009, 06:24 PM
Just bought an Asus Eee PC904. tried live (Intrepid) ubuntu from usb and it seemed to work, so proceeded to install. Half way through the partition bit it got stuck, refusing to go further. Pressing cancel or back had no effect, neither did pressing okay. Switched off, switched on, and it looks like my system is hosed... I just get:

Error loading operating system

is there any way to fix this? I see no sign of bios, the message is the same whether I have the live-usb stick in or out


help!!

xadder
March 13th, 2009, 10:03 AM
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Help .. anyone.....?

I need to know if there is a chance to fix this myself, or whether I have to send the PC off for a new disk or whatever is needed.

xadder
March 14th, 2009, 03:53 PM
Hi,

Solved with some help from an EeeUser forum. Had to stick a paper-clip into the tiny reset hole, then pressing ESC or F2 (some trial and error with timing) got me into BIOS again. New usb-install of easy-peasy, and all is working well :-)