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Hey, I have an Acer Aspire One with linpus linux...unfortunately it crashed halfway through the d2d recovery I was running, and now it won't boot, giving the error '15'. I ...
  1. 03-29-2009 #1
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    Hey, I have an Acer Aspire One with linpus linux...unfortunately it crashed halfway through the d2d recovery I was running, and now it won't boot, giving the error '15'. I have created a bootable USB recovery drive, but when I attempt to boot from it, I just get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. I'm using an 8GB sandisk cruzer. Any help would really be appreciated, cheers in advance.
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  2. 03-30-2009 #2
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    Just to be sure, have you set your BIOS to boot from the USB disk? Also some USBs do not support booting, so you might want to make sure that your usb does. Let us know, of these two things if u can!!
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    I did set the BIOS to boot from the USB...I reformatted it and then redid the USB boot disk image, now it's working but it's hanging with the blue line at about 1px, and it's been like that for a while...Is there any suggestion what's wrong?
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    I've seen this issue with OpenSuse on USB before. How did you create the USB? What instructions? I've only consistently had success putting Ubuntu on a USB, every other distro has given me some problem or another (some minor, some won't even load fully)
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    I used a program called unetbootin to make the usb bootable, I found the instructions on google and have since tried it with puppy linux on another USB drive...I'm just about to try it with puppy on my bigger USB drive to see if it's the USB that is the problem, as puppy worked fine. I am using a sandisk cruzer but with the CD emulation turned off, but I have since heard of people having problems anyway. Might need to buy a cheap 2GB drive as my only other drive is 1GB...cheers for the reply.

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    I litterally just tried fedora 10 with my smaller USB drive and it runs fine, including wireless networking...I'm thinking maybe I'll stick to this if it continues to run well. I would like to get linpus working anyway. Another question, if I reinstall linpus will that reinstall the Acer recovery partition that I broke?
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    yeah 1GB is fine for almost any distro. Fedora is a nice distro.

    As for the recovery partition, no, it would not fix that. You might be able to get that online somewhere and recreate the partition, otherwise, I wouldn't worry about it too much
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    Cheers mate, I think I'm gonna stick to Fedora 10 now, it's a little slow on this machine but other than that its much nicer than linpus
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