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hi i have a dual boot pc one is ubuntu 8.10 and ons windows xp now i want to boot from usb pen drive the extra small windows xp . ...
- 05-05-2009 #1Just Joined!
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ubuntu 8.10 boot problem!!
hi i have a dual boot pc one is ubuntu 8.10 and ons windows xp now i want to boot from usb pen drive the extra small windows xp . the boot 1s is the pen drive . and its just wont boot its going straight to the os choice screen what i should do ?????
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Is that pendrive bootable?
Is the partiton on pendrive have boot flag?
Have you used that before?
Press F10 on BIOS loading screen and try selecting pendrive.
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Does your machine support booting up from External Device like USB? Have you checked same USB in other machine?
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I have ..
1.i have bios suuport pen drive and the system is extra small pc pen drive sow it suuports
2.what is bios flag ?
- 05-06-2009 #5Linux Engineer
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Disk /dev/sdd: 4016 MB, 4016046080 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 488 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000f35e3
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 488 3919828+ 6 FAT16
See the bold text. * is called as boot flag. its also called as active partition
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