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ubot
May 2nd, 2011, 01:51 PM
I have a laptop with a dead CD drive. I want to install Ubuntu 11.04 on it however it can not boot a USB drive. The current os is trashed, but grub is still okay. Is there any way to load the ubuntu CD's contents off of a flash drive and boot it from the grub console at boot?

Nathaniel

C.S.Cameron
May 2nd, 2011, 03:44 PM
Yes you can boot a flash drive from grub, do you have grub2 or legacy?

ubot
May 3rd, 2011, 02:17 AM
I have grub legacy on the laptop. I can't access any os, all I have is a grub prompt with editable options.

I have decompressed the contents of the natty i386 desktop disk onto a 4 GB flash drive, so I have that prepared.

Nathaniel