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Loolykinns
April 26th, 2008, 08:37 PM
I've been trying to install Ubuntu 8.04 on my flash drive.

My laptop is Toshiba L20-149 and it enables USB booting.
My flash drive is Kingston DataTraveler 4GB

The installation is done and everything, but i cant boot. I installed grub on sdb (which is my flash drive) and the system boots from it before the HDD (my hard drive)... and whenever i choose (ubuntu 8.04) grub gives me error 17...

Here's the important stuff in my GRUB menu.lst:
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=c8db8673-d804-4ce6-8761-59910b022326 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=c8db8673-d804-4ce6-8761-59910b022326 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic

title Ubuntu 8.04, memtest86+
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin



Hope you could help me with that...
Lori700698
April 26th, 2008, 08:41 PM
quick fix would be at grub hit e, then e again and change h1,0 to h0,0 then enter then b. this will boot it and you can change it perm. but I need to look up those directions.
Pumalite
April 26th, 2008, 08:45 PM
Backup your file first. Then:
gksudo gedit menu.lst
Loolykinns
April 27th, 2008, 12:06 AM
I changed the hd1 to hd0 and i got to the login screen... it just hangs when i log in... (i doubt my resources... after all my laptop isn't that good)

is there anythin' i could do to make it actually gets to the desktop and all? or should i just install xubuntu?
Pumalite
April 27th, 2008, 12:11 AM
If you have 256 MB of RAM or less, Xubuntu is the way to go (Xubuntu Alternate CD).
Loolykinns
April 27th, 2008, 01:30 AM
My RAM is 1GB and my HDD is 40GB... I downloaded Xubuntu and i'll give it a shot tomorrow and fill you with updates
Lori700698
April 27th, 2008, 04:14 AM
good luck with that, I never got past the the dreaded hang on tan/brown screen! I went back to 7.10! if you figure it out shoot me a message!
Loolykinns
April 30th, 2008, 08:35 PM
good luck with that, I never got past the the dreaded hang on tan/brown screen! I went back to 7.10! if you figure it out shoot me a message!

Guess what? It worked!!

I installed Xubuntu and worked like a charm... I'm sure there's something wrong in my Ubuntu and CD Drive... but Xubuntu worked well

Hope telling you that Xubuntu worked help you decide what to do