[gentoo-user] Installing on an eee-pc 1000H

[gentoo-user] Installing on an eee-pc 1000H

[Peter Humphrey]

Hello list,

I'm trying to install Gentoo on a new eee-pc but falling at the first 
hurdle. I've followed the instructions on making a boot USB stick in 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml but the machine doesn't recognise 
the stick at boot time. It's a 4GB stick so I made a FAT-32 partition 
occupying the whole space, using mkdosfs, then copied the contents of 
install-x86-minimal-20090915.iso following the instructions. I did all the 
things I was told to, but at the next boot the BIOS calls the stick merely 
a "removable device", not a USB disk, and then it doesn't boot from it.

Can anyone tell me if that web page is up to date and complete? I notice it 
doesn't say to make the _stick_ bootable, only the partition on it.

TIA.

-- 
Rgds
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on an eee-pc 1000H

[James Ausmus]

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I'm trying to install Gentoo on a new eee-pc but falling at the first
> hurdle. I've followed the instructions on making a boot USB stick in
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml but the machine doesn't recognise
> the stick at boot time. It's a 4GB stick so I made a FAT-32 partition
> occupying the whole space, using mkdosfs, then copied the contents of
> install-x86-minimal-20090915.iso following the instructions. I did all the
> things I was told to, but at the next boot the BIOS calls the stick merely
> a "removable device", not a USB disk, and then it doesn't boot from it.
>
>
A basic thing to check - make sure your BIOS is set to boot the removable
device before the internal HDD - you have to do this with the USB stick
inserted, and (if the 1000H is anything like the 900A), it will revert to
internal HDD first any time you boot w/o the USB stick inserted.

Oh, and "removable device" is fine - the BIOS doesn't have the smarts to
know if it's a USB stick, an external USB HDD, an SD card through a USB
adapter, or ???

HTH

-James






> Can anyone tell me if that web page is up to date and complete? I notice it
> doesn't say to make the _stick_ bootable, only the partition on it.
>
> TIA.
>
> --
> Rgds
> Peter
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on an eee-pc 1000H

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:50:08 -0700, James Ausmus wrote:

> A basic thing to check - make sure your BIOS is set to boot the
> removable device before the internal HDD - you have to do this with the
> USB stick inserted, and (if the 1000H is anything like the 900A), it
> will revert to internal HDD first any time you boot w/o the USB stick
> inserted.

There's no need to change the BIOS, press Esc during POST to get a boot
menu.

System Rescue CD is a good choice for installing Gentoo, and is easy to
transfer to a bootable USB stick.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

OS/2 = Half an Operating System

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Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on an eee-pc 1000H

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday 17 September 2009 17:50:08 James Ausmus wrote:

> A basic thing to check - make sure your BIOS is set to boot the removable
> device before the internal HDD - you have to do this with the USB stick
> inserted, and (if the 1000H is anything like the 900A), it will revert to
> internal HDD first any time you boot w/o the USB stick inserted.

Yes, of course I did that every time.

> Oh, and "removable device" is fine - the BIOS doesn't have the smarts to
> know if it's a USB stick, an external USB HDD, an SD card through a USB
> adapter, or ???

Not so. When I tried installing a Ubuntu remix (ugh!) it did recognise that 
as an external hard disk.

-- 
Rgds
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on an eee-pc 1000H

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday 17 September 2009 17:55:29 Neil Bothwick wrote:

> System Rescue CD is a good choice for installing Gentoo, and is easy to
> transfer to a bootable USB stick.

I'll try that - thanks!

-- 
Rgds
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on an eee-pc 1000H

[Massimo Gengarelli]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:55:29PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> There's no need to change the BIOS, press Esc during POST to get a boot
> menu.

That's true.
I've simply used an Ubuntu Live USB to install Gentoo, and everything
went just fine ;)


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