I plugged the stick in, hoping to reboot and go into rescue mode and reinstall grub, but instead, the grub menu came up, and the system booted fine.
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It took me a few minutes to put it together that during the manual partitioning, the usb stick was SCSI1 and the hard drive was SCSI2, but when it asked where to install grub, I let it go into /dev/sda without thinking about it.
The install went fine until I rebooted and got Error 15 instead of a grub menu. So, no choice of regular or expert install, and no way to get into rescue mode.Īlso, I ran into a problem, and this might have something to do with the motherboard (pcchips socket A). It goes right to the language and location questions. I did one of these installs (unetbootin, hd-media, regular netinstall iso) the other night, and I noticed that it skips the first menu, where you get to choose how you want to boot the CD. At the beginning of the install, it skipped past the choice of desktop environment.ĭespite these issues I have to say that after using unetbootin to install debian and LMDE, I don't think I'll be burning many more install CDs.Īt the beginning of the install, it skipped past the choice of desktop environment.
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I've occasionally had luck with the 'LS120' option in the BIOS boot priority settings on motherboards with questionable USB bootability.Īlso, IMO there's not much point in using anything other than a netinst for installing Debian via unetbootin as the rest of any 650MB+ iso contents aren't easily available if your optical drive is knackered, anyone who knows better feel free to correct me on that point.Īnother issue I had using a full iso was an erratic assortment of installed packages when using testing with unetbootin (hd_media option) and the lxde+xfce4 iso. Try the Boot Priority setting to boot a USB first priority, and if it does not have that option, it will not boot, even though it may read the files on the USB. StanTheMan wrote:A USB stick completely installed using unetbootin, will not boot with the older BIOS motherboards. The point is: you don't need to transfer a CD. With my little netbook, even to the point of being able to use wireless instead of a wired internet connection. You may have to enter the BIOS to select theīoot device (the USB key), or there may be key (like F12) to hit at the start of the boot sequence. Once done, you can reboot with the USB-key and take it from there.
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May already suggest something), then sit back and let unetbootin download the required image etc all by itself. Then specify the destination partition (like /dev/sdb1, but use whatever applies - unetbootin Of them, in the two architectectures 圆4 (meaning AMD64) and without suffix (meaning i386). All that remains is to start the unetbootin programme (there is a versionįor various operating systems, including Windows), then - just as TobiSGD said - let it do all the work.Īll you need to do in the unetbootin window is choose Debian and the preferred version -testing/Squeeze is one
Just make sure that you have the USB-key formatted (either VFAT or EXT2/3 will do) and mounted and that Well, based on my experience it works very well.