05-13-2009, 02:09 PM
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trouble booting Ubuntu from USB on Sony Vaio
I'm resurrecting a PIII era Sony Vaio that has no cd drive. I created a bootable USB stick via Ubuntu, in the hopes of loading the distro this way. However, booting via USB isn't shown as an option in the BIOS. There's got to be a way to do this. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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05-13-2009, 02:19 PM
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What you are going to have to do is create a boot disk. Does the Vaio have a Floppy in it?
Essentially what will happen is the computer would boot the floppy, and that in turn would load the distro from the USB drive. Seablade |
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05-13-2009, 02:47 PM
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05-14-2009, 12:46 AM
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Probably not. USB would have to be bootable in the BIOS, and it doesn't sound like yours is.
Can you put a bootloader on the harddrive? Seablade |
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