EEE PC and Atomic Flash

[lde]

All,

Since i was unable to buy an Aspire laptop(not available immediately) i instead purchased an EEE PC 1000 series laptop with the N270 Atom motherboard. I was trying to install the laptop with the new Atomic Flashdrive i just received, and when i boot up from the flash i get "boot error", and thats it. it keeps asking for a bootable drive. I've actually used the atomic flash on a dell to see if that was it and was able to get that going via interactive mode. It initially didn't like the 1.5 TB partitioning but worked around it. Tried other USB ports also with no luck. Any help much appreciated.

TIA
lde

 

[wardmundy]

The BIOS in some machines is flaky when it comes to booting from USB flash drives. Sounds like you may have acquired one.

If the flash drive didn't work in any machine, that would suggest a bad image, but if it's usable on a Dell then it's probably a BIOS problem. Perhaps someone else with your machine can confirm whether it is a problem for them as well. I only have first-hand experience with the Dell T100, Acer Aspire One, and Everex gPC mini. It works in all of those.

 

[lde]

thanks. I will try a bios upgrade first.

--lde

 

[lde]

upgraded to bios version 1305. Still same error. I then tried a different USB install on a Sandisk Cruzer with a live install of fedora 10. it came up just fine. I'm wondering if it is the USB flashdrive. Ward can you tell me how i can move the atomic install to a different USB so i can test this theory out ?

tia
--lde

 

[lde]

resolved problem by using different flash drive. Kingston was incompatible so to speak with the eee pc. Used a sandisk drive instead. Weird.

thanks
--lde

 

[ou812]

lde, I have the same problem with booting from this drive i will try switching to a different drive, did you just copy over the files or do you have to make the usb key bootable first.

Gary.

 

[wardmundy]

Interesting. We had similar problems with other flash drives on the Aspire One's and Dell's.

Here's the command we use:

dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc conv=notrunc

With a different drive, if this fails, try:

dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc

Be sure you check the proper drive names FIRST!!

 

[ou812]

these commands look like linux commands, if the system will not boot I can not use these commands as there is no os, I was able to format a 8gb usb drive witch boots up with dos and i can see all the files that i copied over fom the original drive, but not sure if there is a way to start the proccess from here ?

Gary.

 

[lde]

i used a fedora usb creator to test the new usb from this link https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/


Then i just copy the files over from the usb made with the atomic flash. No issues since.

hope this helps.
--lde