Hey everyone, I'm kinda stuck here, and after about 4 hours of trying, I finally decided to ask for help here. I have an old, 2003 Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop, and I'm trying to get it to boot from a USB into Linux.
First off, it does have usb ports on it, and it recognizes usb devices in windows, but when I plug in a usb hard drive or flash drive, there are no options to boot off of it in the BIOS. I tried burning it to a DVD, no dice, it can't recognize that there is an OS on the DVD. It also doesn't recognize a BIOS flash ISO when I try to boot it. I've tried everything I can think of, and I know the usb works, as I tried the multiboot on many other computers.
If it helps anyone that knows this computer, I have the A08 version of the bios, but I can't upgrade past it as it wont read the DVD with the flash image burned on it.
I'm really stuck here, thanks in advance to anyone that can help.
-Edit- The USB stick also won't show up under the hard drives list in the boot options.
First off, it does have usb ports on it, and it recognizes usb devices in windows, but when I plug in a usb hard drive or flash drive, there are no options to boot off of it in the BIOS. I tried burning it to a DVD, no dice, it can't recognize that there is an OS on the DVD. It also doesn't recognize a BIOS flash ISO when I try to boot it. I've tried everything I can think of, and I know the usb works, as I tried the multiboot on many other computers.
If it helps anyone that knows this computer, I have the A08 version of the bios, but I can't upgrade past it as it wont read the DVD with the flash image burned on it.
I'm really stuck here, thanks in advance to anyone that can help.
-Edit- The USB stick also won't show up under the hard drives list in the boot options.
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Nocturne
(16 items) |
The backup
(10 items) |
Wind
(7 items) |
| CPU | Motherboard | Graphics | RAM |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD athlon 64 x2 5000+ | Stock Emachines | Nvidia Geforce 9400gt | 6gb Generic 800mhz DDR2 |
| Hard Drive | OS | Monitor | Keyboard |
| Hitachi 140gb | Ubuntu 11.04 | HP vs17e | Emachines |
| Power | Case | ||
| Logisys 575W Black | stock | ||
| View all | |||
| CPU | Graphics | RAM | Hard Drive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intel Atom N270 @2ghz | Intel GMA945 | DDR2 1GB onboard/ 1GB Crucial card | Fujitsu 120GB |
| OS | Monitor | Mouse | |
| Windows XP | 10.1" LCD | Wireless Logitech | |
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