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trouble booting Ubuntu from USB on Sony Vaio

post #1 of 4
5/13/09 at 5:09pm
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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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post #2 of 4
5/13/09 at 5:19pm
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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post #3 of 4
5/13/09 at 5:47pm
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Originally Posted by Seablade View Post
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
no built-in or sony pcmcia floppy, would a generic usb floppy work? usb cd drive was not bootable.
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post #4 of 4
5/14/09 at 3:46am
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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