In the meantime everything's (nearly) fine. dsl is on it and it works properly on my home computer. It's an i-buddy Desknote from Elitegroup/ECS.
Unfortunately it doesn't work with my laptop at work, a hewlett packard hp nc8000. I set up usb as the first boot device but when I turn on the computer, with the usb stick plugged in, I get:
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Missing Operation System.
Anyone's got an advice?I did the usb install with my "crapbook", the desknote. Or is it necessary to make it with my hp?.
Hey Fez
Sound like the HP's BIOS can't read the USB Pendrive as a bootable device. Did you check the BIOS settings on it?
It may not be able to boot from USB or you may need to change some settings to do so
Maybe a BIOS upgrade would sort it out. I had to upgrade the Embeded Controller and BIOS version of an IBM T40 before it would boot from USB
HTH
.Forgot to mention, that usb is set up as first boot device.
I'm pretty scared of doing a bios update cause it's not my own laptop (work). But maybe it's the only solution.
Or should I involve our it-hotline? Gotta think about it. Could be hard to argument: "erhhh, I'd like to boot from usb." - "Why would you do that? You already got a perfect customized (*lie*) Win system on it?".
Hey Fez
Funny you should say that, because I work in IT and I would never let any of our users boot into linux off their USB Pendrives because they can't even navigate their way round Windows.
