[SOLVED] problem in booting from the Pen Deive

[antonio_helder2002]

I use Ubuntu 8.10 Inteprid Ibex. Few days back i instaled it in my pendrive. it was working fine. for few reasons i formatted it. again i installed Ubuntu in it but this time it was no longer booting. I tried with a few of my friends pendrive same thing happens..........................
the pendrive is not recognized as a boot device by my computer...............
What should I do to make it boot from my pen drive again?????????
plzzzz help me!!!!!!!!! need help fast...................

[D-cat]

There are two sets of instructions. One is the automated installer. The other is the manual method.

Also make sure your BIOS settings didn't somehow change to put the hard drive in priority over your USB in the boot order.

When doing things manually, there's a host of options and steps that could easily be skipped or forgotten. It also gives you some degree of flexibility if you want to try a different method.

[antonio_helder2002]

There are two sets of instructions. One is the automated installer. The other is the manual method.

Also make sure your BIOS settings didn't somehow change to put the hard drive in priority over your USB in the boot order.

When doing things manually, there's a host of options and steps that could easily be skipped or forgotten. It also gives you some degree of flexibility if you want to try a different method.

I removed my HDD from my computer then tried it out.................& also that i use the automated intaller the install it in my pendrive.
while booting from pendrive the msg
"SYSLINUX 3.63 Debian-2008-07-15 CBIOS Copyright (c) 1994-2008 H.Peter Anvin
boot:"
comes written in white on a black background with the cursor blinking after "boot:"
i have a Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard with the regular BIOS supplied with the Motherboard
i need to boot Ubuntu from my pen drive its really important

[D-cat]

First I'd try the manual method above, it might fix something the automated installer is overlooking.

There are a couple of other alternate methods you could try as well, e.g., since there is no hard drive, you might get away with installing it as if it was a hard drive and boot with grub...

[larryfroot]

Hi,

In addition to the excellent advice offered here...

On the pendrivelinux site:

Boot and run Linux from a USB flash memory stick | USB Pen Drive Linux

You will find instructions on creating a usb boot CD but please make sure you follow the instructions to create an ubuntu one! Basically after you have made the usb boot CD you pop it into your optical drive, make sure that your bios is pointing at the CD drive, and when the system boots into the CD there will be an option there to boot from usb. Select that and, well, it worked for me.

[antonio_helder2002]

I removed my HDD from my computer then tried it out.................& also that i use the automated intaller the install it in my pendrive.
while booting from pendrive the msg
"SYSLINUX 3.63 Debian-2008-07-15 CBIOS Copyright (c) 1994-2008 H.Peter Anvin
boot:"
comes written in white on a black background with the cursor blinking after "boot:"
i have a Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard with the regular BIOS supplied with the Motherboard
i need to boot Ubuntu from my pen drive its really important

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