I’m currently enrolled in a Linux+ class at school, but I’m still pretty new to it. I only know a few basic commands. Our teacher has encouraged us to try several Linux distros like openSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu and the like to see how they differ but are still the same at their core.
Anyway, I bought an HP netbook to play around with Linux, but now after installing openSUSE, I can’t boot off USB to DBAN, SLAX, Puppy Linux, or anything else. This didn’t happen with the other distros I’ve tried so far. I know my BIOS is set to boot USB first, but it won’t do it with openSUSE installed on the hard drive for some reason. I also know the USB drive works, as I can boot off of it on other machines just fine.
Fix your BIOS or your USB device. There is no way that something that
isn’t running (Linux, since it’s on your hard drive and set to be tried
AFTER USB) could be affecting the boot process before it is loaded.
Good luck.
On 02/03/2011 09:36 PM, ThreeWatt wrote:
>
> I’m currently enrolled in a Linux+ class at school, but I’m still pretty
> new to it. I only know a few basic commands. Our teacher has encouraged
> us to try several Linux distros like openSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu and the
> like to see how they differ but are still the same at their core.
>
> Anyway, I bought an HP netbook to play around with Linux, but now after
> installing openSUSE, I can’t boot off USB to DBAN, SLAX, Puppy Linux, or
> anything else. This didn’t happen with the other distros I’ve tried so
> far. I know my BIOS is set to boot USB first, but it won’t do it with
> openSUSE installed on the hard drive for some reason. I also know the
> USB drive works, as I can boot off of it on other machines just fine.
>
> What should I do?
>
>
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I went back into the BIOS and enabled network and USB floppy booting alongside USB CD-ROM, USB pendrive, and hard disk booting. Then I moved the hard drive to the very bottom of the list, and that finally let me boot off to DBAN and zero the drive out. I don’t why I had to do it this way, maybe it needed a delay or something.