Hey, I'm trying to run linux but I'm having difficulties, wondering if there are any linux guys on the forums willing to help out... At first I was having difficulty entering my bios, rapidly pressing all the shortcut keys led me to windows boot manager rather than the bios- figured out myself that holding f2 prior to turning the computer on works... which is different then most computers, and now I'm getting an error on linux startup, of course: Now then, anyone understand the issue?
Are you sure you set it up correctly? From memory you have to do a command prompt thing to make it bootable. I put Ubuntu on a USB a year or two ago to use it to recover a file (it worked, woot).
what are the exact steps you have taken so far? Start from USB set up. I am not familiar with the error you are getting.
Rather than mounting it through CMD I did so with a program, the program I used is well known and has worked many times in the past for others. I am of course, the person that gets problems. -.- Yep, I'll go take a moment to backtrack then get back to you!
Try command prompt. I remember when I did it it wouldn't boot but then I tried again and it did because computers are magic.
Can you please say how exactly you created this USB stick? Also what ISO was used? Personally I recommend to use this tool: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ It's always worked just fine for me and everyone I recommended it.
It looks like the program didin't installed it properly or the first sector of USB might be damaged I would suggest to try 1. Reinstalling with the program you used. 2. Reinstalling with a different program like UNetbootin or Universal USB Installer. 3. Trying other distribution. 4. Booting up from cd/dvd and installing to USB flash drive. 5. Trying another USB flash drive. 6. You may try to install and configure bootloader to boot from USB (before configuring bootloaders I suggest to careffuly read tutorials and I won't be responsible for any booting isues that might occurre) If that wont work I would suggest to install to hard disk from cd/dvd or runing in virtual box or other virtualization software. If you don't have working cd/dvd drive and it still doesn't boot from usb and you have multiple hard disks you can try to use a trick I used when my old computers bios wasn't supporting booting from USB and DVD drive was jammed. 1. download Universal USB Installer and run it. 2.Select distribution and distribution iso. 3.Click show all drives in select hard drive that doesn't have os installed in it. 4. Set it persistent if your current distro doesn't support it I would suggest to try another one that suports persistent USB. 5.Make sure format is unchecked and press create. 6. (optional) you can now try to install from live Linux version in hard drive to USB. I hope it helps Note I'm not responsible for any loss of data that might occurre if you accidently format it or other ways lost. Overwritten os mbr if you select drive with os installed already.
Actually I figured it out! I figured out it was a really silly issue, I believe what I did was just skip the USB boot which seems to have been the first option. It had a confusing name. Anyway I needed to select "linux distros" and it gave me a list of the Linux distros I had. By now Zorin OS it's installed and I duel boot it with Windows 7.
