Tag Archives: BIOS

Help with dual-booting vista and ubuntu!?

Posted on February 4, 2012 by admin| 2 Comments

I am currently using a vaio vgn-fz140e which came with vista. I have a 60 gig external hard drive from my previous computer and I wiped the hard drive and installed Ubuntu linux on it. For some reason, the computer automatically tries to boot ubuntu but can’t load it from the external drive. It doesn’t even try to load vista. When running ubuntu from the live cd, I can see that both vista and ubuntu are installed on their respective drives, but they won’t boot at all. I tried to get into the BIOS, but for some reason, I can’t. Can anyone help me?

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Tagged BIOS, boot, computer, drive, dual booting vista, external hard drive, gig, Linux, reason, Ubuntu, Vaio, vaio vgn, vgn fz140e, vista

How do I boot off a live CD?

Posted on June 16, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

I have a old as dirt compaq presario notebook and a linux live cd that I would like my computer to booot off of. I can get to the BIOS menu but I’m not sure what to do from there.
I can get to the boot menu and I set the boot priority or w/e to cd-rom 1st and i do save and exit and it still comes up windows and i restart and it still comes up windows.

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Tagged BIOS, booot, boot, Compaq, compaq presario, compaq presario notebook, computer, dirt, Linux, Linux Live CDs, menu, notebook, Presario

Bootable CD Problems…?

Posted on June 11, 2011 by admin| 1 Comment

Well I’ve been fixing a computer for awhile, and it just seems like problem after problem.Considering I can only fix it every other weekend and when I am, I have no internet access to diagnose problems… So… The hard drive is totally clean, no OS or anything on it. I Set the BIOS to Boot from CD, first and saved it. When I put in any Bootable CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive I get the Invalid System Disk error. I have tried it with Multiple CDs, Trying to boot setups and Linux Live OSs(I have tried 2 WindowsXP disks, 1 Slax, 1 Gentoo and 2 Ubuntu). What should I do? Is the CD-ROM Drive broken?

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Tagged BIOS, bootable cd rom, Gentoo, Hard Drive, internet access, invalid system disk, invalid system disk error, Linux, Ubuntu, windowsxp

Linux Questions?

Posted on May 23, 2011 by admin| 3 Comments

hey, i got a CD from a friend of Linux “Live Cd” (Ubuntu) and I haven’t played with it on my computer. But my question is that if i like it, I have two HD’s on my compy, a Stock XP 80GB system disk that came with it, then a Western Digital that i bought that doesn’t have an OS. could i partition off like maybe 50GB of the WD drive, and install Linux on it. Then just change the BIOS when i turn the compy on, depending on which OS i want to use?
I am not planning Ubuntu to install it, i am using it to play with it. I will download the actual version to install it

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Tagged BIOS, computer, compy, Disk, friend, hd, Linux, Linux Live CDs, linux questions, Live, partition, question, stock, system, Ubuntu, wd drive, western digital