bjaz
May 8th, 2010, 11:05 PM
hello all
I was having a hard time installing Xubuntu on a an old Japanese FMV Biblo LOOX S73A, with no internal drive.
trying both from a USB stick and from a CD ( I think the USB's were USB 1's, not sure) but it was finally rolling with the CD---the bios lists USB booting- yet things happen, power shortage and the battery was out-
I'm stuck with a broken Xubuntu intall
I have 3 grub options, regular, recovery mode and mem test
I've tried to reinstall forcing the computer to boot from the CD in the bios, but get "no os found"
If I let it boot from the hard drive, I get to Busybox/initramfs commands that I know nothing of. I just want to do a clean reinstall of the whle thing, but cannot find out how to do so.
as mentioned this bios has an option to boot from USB CD ROM DRIVE, hard disk, or floppy
if I choose USB CD ROM with a disk (install disk, Gparted...) in it, it will just say OS not found--i'll don't know how to fix things using the grub command line ways,
if I disable the HDD and stick to the the USB CD drive, with my live cd in it, I get no OS found
If I let it boot from the HDD, it starts booting Xubuntu, then parachutes errors which land me in Busybox/initramfs commands-
I can access the command lines if i press esc while the grub is loading
trying to boot from a CD, or GParted won't work. I would like to tell the grub to boot from USB but i'm not sure how to do this.
I've been trying to boot / install anything, from the CD, but it refuses to boot. I've tried booting to verified versions of GPArted, crunchbang linux, xubuntu, even a japanese windows xp...to no avail
the only thing that works is enabling the hard disk drive, which gives me a 3 choixed grub, and then starts to boot xubuntu before landing in the busybox iniframs commands that i can't make sense out of.
s there a way I can access the USB CD drive and boot from there again to re-install ?
that's what it was doing before the powercut, so i'm figuring it's probably the best way to go.
otherwise i have another box running ubuntu, and also windows, and mac os, should software be needed--, non burned iso's and lives CD's, including Gparted, and 3 USB keys which can be formated, including an 8G one-
i don't think there's anything like target-disk mode which would help out here
the main issue being that this old netbook style computer has no CD rom drive, just two USB ports
meaning I need to use a USB drive.
normally USB booting is supported, as stated in the bios,, yet in this case, as explained, it is not working.
I'm trying to find a way to erase the drive and reinstall (of ubuntu, or another flavour), or clone and existing bootable partition onto it but cannot find a way around this. anything to be able to use this computer again
can somebody please help me out on this one ?
thanks in advance for your help
ben
I was having a hard time installing Xubuntu on a an old Japanese FMV Biblo LOOX S73A, with no internal drive.
trying both from a USB stick and from a CD ( I think the USB's were USB 1's, not sure) but it was finally rolling with the CD---the bios lists USB booting- yet things happen, power shortage and the battery was out-
I'm stuck with a broken Xubuntu intall
I have 3 grub options, regular, recovery mode and mem test
I've tried to reinstall forcing the computer to boot from the CD in the bios, but get "no os found"
If I let it boot from the hard drive, I get to Busybox/initramfs commands that I know nothing of. I just want to do a clean reinstall of the whle thing, but cannot find out how to do so.
as mentioned this bios has an option to boot from USB CD ROM DRIVE, hard disk, or floppy
if I choose USB CD ROM with a disk (install disk, Gparted...) in it, it will just say OS not found--i'll don't know how to fix things using the grub command line ways,
if I disable the HDD and stick to the the USB CD drive, with my live cd in it, I get no OS found
If I let it boot from the HDD, it starts booting Xubuntu, then parachutes errors which land me in Busybox/initramfs commands-
I can access the command lines if i press esc while the grub is loading
trying to boot from a CD, or GParted won't work. I would like to tell the grub to boot from USB but i'm not sure how to do this.
I've been trying to boot / install anything, from the CD, but it refuses to boot. I've tried booting to verified versions of GPArted, crunchbang linux, xubuntu, even a japanese windows xp...to no avail
the only thing that works is enabling the hard disk drive, which gives me a 3 choixed grub, and then starts to boot xubuntu before landing in the busybox iniframs commands that i can't make sense out of.
s there a way I can access the USB CD drive and boot from there again to re-install ?
that's what it was doing before the powercut, so i'm figuring it's probably the best way to go.
otherwise i have another box running ubuntu, and also windows, and mac os, should software be needed--, non burned iso's and lives CD's, including Gparted, and 3 USB keys which can be formated, including an 8G one-
i don't think there's anything like target-disk mode which would help out here
the main issue being that this old netbook style computer has no CD rom drive, just two USB ports
meaning I need to use a USB drive.
normally USB booting is supported, as stated in the bios,, yet in this case, as explained, it is not working.
I'm trying to find a way to erase the drive and reinstall (of ubuntu, or another flavour), or clone and existing bootable partition onto it but cannot find a way around this. anything to be able to use this computer again
can somebody please help me out on this one ?
thanks in advance for your help
ben