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situated
October 20th, 2009, 01:59 PM
Ok, so I wanna use my 8GB USB stick to install Ubuntu(which I have done before) but this time when I go to boot from it, it says boot error? any ideas? My BIOS is set to be able to boot from a USB, it always has been.

I'm using UNetbootin to put the files onto my USB. Any help will be much appreciated.
situated
October 20th, 2009, 02:17 PM
anything?
MelDJ
October 20th, 2009, 02:18 PM
what does the boot error say? and please be more patient
situated
October 20th, 2009, 02:43 PM
lol it says BOOT ERROR at the top left of my screen. If I SET my bios to boot the USB first, I get that, if I go to boot menu of my bios to manually boot from the USB I get BOOT ERROR. But here's the funny thing, I have had Ubuntu on my USB drive before and installed from it just fine. For some reason it won't anymore.
bruno9779
October 20th, 2009, 02:46 PM
Data on USB corrupted?

The error appears before Grub, so it is either: corrupted data, faulty bios, or some unebootin issue.
situated
October 20th, 2009, 02:50 PM
well it's not my BIOS, and it couldn't be Ubuntu because I downloaded the files straight from Ubuntu.com


Could it be i'm missing files? Like a boot file?
situated
October 20th, 2009, 05:46 PM
Here is a list of what I have on my USB drive as of the download from Ubuntu.com


http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p154/itz_situated/picoffiles.jpg
presence1960
October 20th, 2009, 07:01 PM
Here is a list of what I have on my USB drive as of the download from Ubuntu.com


http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p154/itz_situated/picoffiles.jpg

with a flash or USB stick 4 GB or more my BIOS sees it as a hard disk. When I boot from one 4 GB or larger I have to go into BIOS under hard disk boot order and move the flash/usb stick to #1 position.
Skwerly
October 20th, 2009, 07:03 PM
Haha, that's quirky! Makes sense, though! :)