My system is booting from the USB drive the problem is that after booting it shows the menu to select an option. And on selecting any option it leads to a blank screen.  I am trying to boot Ubuntu 18.04 from a USB live stick. I waited for about half an hour too after selecting install Ubuntu option, but it's not working. I have Dell Vostro 3568 8GB RAM, i5 7gen with AMD Radeon. I have made the live USB from startup disk creator which is preinstalled in Ubuntu.
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I have HP G56 laptop and it originally came with Windows 7 which microsoft updated to windows 10 for free. I did clean install and so i don't have option to go back to windows 7.   I want to try Ubuntu as after upgrading to windows 10, my laptop runs slow. I have created bootable USB several times but can't make my laptop to boot. I saw tutorials and already setup bios to boot from USB first and also turnoff fast boot from power option. I can however use other USB for windows 10 that i have and that works but not from Ubuntu USB
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First of all: this is not a duplicate of the all the " questions.  Problem:  When booting, the system will not boot unless the installer USB flash drive is present. If I boot without the USB drive, the screen goes black AFTER GRUB lists the different configurations available - so GRUB is on the correct disk, its what it does next that seems to be the problem.  With the USB drive inserted, its access light starts flashing while the system boots in a normal manner.  And yes: I have tried booting from the USB drive directly and then I get the "live" version, so I have not installed the OS on the flash drive by mistake :)   I have tried sudo grub-install /dev/sda and sudo update-grub just for fun, but nothing changed.  System in short:  Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. i3 processor. UEFI bios. 128Gb SSD drive. The SSD has a 47 Mb EFI partition and the rest mounted as '/' (XFS).
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I've created a bootable USB of Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit with Rufus, setting the drive to be a GPT for UEFI. Then I booted my tablet PC and I ran the UEFI BIOS, from which I turned secure boot off. I then restarted and went again on the BIOS to boot from my key, but all I got was a black screen that lasted few seconds and then it brought me back to the BIOS. I read about a bootia32.efi file and other procedures that can be followed, but I didn't find a good explanation of what I need to get done. My tablet PC runs an Intel Core Atom Z3735F and has 2 GB of RAM. If you have the answer please let me know.
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what I want to do is this. I have an external hard disk drive, a SEAGATE expansion 1TB, you can take it a look here:  As you can see this is not a flash usb hard drive, it is a USB hard disk drive. What I want to do is installing Ubuntu in this external hard disk drive... BUT NOT PLACING THE GRUB ON MY C: DRIVE. In other words, I don't want to see the GRUB splash Window asking me every single time if I want to load Windows or Linux. I want my PC turn on or restart and go directly to Windows... BUT... I want to have Linux in my external USB hard disk drive How do I want to load Ubuntu then? Easy, when I restart my computer or just start it... in ASUS mother boards I have the possibility to select the boot device by pressing F8, and I get the boot menu. I want to turn on my computer, press F8, my mother board ask me what drive I want to use to load the Operating Sytem, I select the USB external hard disk drive where do I have Ubuntu, and bingo, I run Ubuntu. When I finish to use Ubuntu, I close it and turn off my computer. Later, I turn on my computer, and if I don't press F8, automatically load the hard disk drive C: and load Windows. My question about this, is what are the necessary steps to install the latest version from Ubuntu, doing exactly this. Not placing the GRUB in my C: hard disk drive, and installing it entirely in the external USB hard disk drive (normal one, not flash one).
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I recently tried to install Ubuntu Desktop on my laptop, but it wasn't successful, as I had the same problem on every startup.  The Ubuntu version I tried to install is 14.04, and it was downloaded from the official site. I had no clean disk, so I tried to install it from my USB. I went Ubuntu forums and found several ways to write my ubuntu.iso to USB. I had tried a lot of them, but every time I had the next problem: when Ubuntu is only loading, it writes something like No caching mode page found, which is going before Assuming drive cache: write through. After that the Ubuntu logo appears and five white dots under it. For 4 seconds all of them become red, and them nothing happens. The Ubuntu logo is just staying on the screen even after an hour of wating. For all this time the USB indicator is not flashing. I've tried to google this, but I had found nothing.   Then while searching forums, I found a way to install Ubuntu inside Windows (maybe it is important to mention that I have Windows 7 and Windows 8 installed on my laptop). So I mounted my ISO again and started wubi.exe where there was not any button to install it from inside. After several minutes I've got the issue: I typed H:\wubi.exe --force-wubi in my cmd, and it worked. I pressed Install Ubuntu inside Windows, followed the instructions, and reached the end of the installation. After this I really got a possibility to choose Ubuntu as the OS, but even than I get the same problem: nothing happens. But this time I got the message, which says that installation of Ubuntu will continue on Ubuntu booting. I can press the Esc key and choose different ways of its loading, but any of the options leads to the same problem. Except Verbose Mode, where text is first displayed and then the same problem appears.   Ubuntu is installed on the clean logic disk.  How can I fix this and continue the installation?  P.S.: Setting "nomodeset" in F6 menu on booting solved my problem.
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I have created a Live USB for Ubuntu 13.10 64 bit using Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.4.4  I have restarted and booted from the USB; tried Ubuntu without installing. Everything works fine there including web browsing, videos, installing new software etc. So I decide to install Ubuntu as dual boot option to Windows 8.  When I tried installing, the options do not show the existing Windows 8 OS. It shows only the option to install Ubuntu as standalone OS. The step by step installation instructions available online mention that it should show option like "Install Ubuntu alongside Windows 8"  I have a Dell Inspiron 3521 with Windows 8; UEFI boot. I have 3 options for the boot menu: "UEFI Security boot On", "UEFI Security boot Off" and "Legacy boot".   Please advise how I can get to dual boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu. I know that USB setup is good as I am able to boot and try from it without installing. May be boot settings?  Thanks in Advance! ~KK
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Downloaded the Ubuntu 16.04.2 .iso install disk and flashed it onto a USB stick.  Booting on the USB stick, there is no memtest86+ option (along with "Try Ubuntu").  Is there a way to add it to the install options?  (it's for a UEFI boot PC running normally Windows, its owner does not want to install Ubuntu. "memtest86+" is completely free (unlike "memtest86"), but is quite old, and does not offer a UEFI boot - this is why having it within the Ubuntu options makes things easier)
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I wanted to replace windows 7 with Ubuntu.   Is it possible to try Ubuntu from USB, like a fully functional Ubuntu?, want to test sound, WiFI connectivity etc. Is there an option to exit from the above option, in case I dont want to install Ubuntu, try it later after fixing something?
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I have no idea how to do this.  I have 7 iso's that I want to be able to easily boot from using a USB Stick and they are:   Windows 7 Ultimate x86 Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Windows 8.1 x64 Hirens BootCD Ultimate BootCD Windows XP Professional Ubuntu   Basically, I want to be able to boot my USB stick and instead of it just loading a single OS (like it does at the moment) I want a list of options ^ like above that I can choose and it will load that OS/ISO.  Any ideas how this can be achieved?
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If you are hurrying to reply, System → Administration → StartUp Disk Creator -- no, that's not what I'm talking about.   I want to try Ubuntu 11.04's Unity without touching my existing Ubuntu install.  To do this, I need to install the nVidia drivers first (sigh).  To do this, I need changes to persist a reboot.  To do this, I need to really install Ubuntu on a USB key.  How do you do that?    What I tried   I tried to make a USB key from , then boot from it, then choose "Install Ubuntu." The installer refused to install to the installation media itself. I tried, from my installed copy of Ubuntu:  sudo kvm /dev/sdb --cdrom .cache/testdrive/iso/ubuntu_natty-desktop-i386.iso   ...but the installer didn't detect the disk properly.
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I'd like to fully install Ubuntu 12.10 onto a 16GB USB 3.0 flash drive, not create a LiveUSB, but to treat the flash drive as an external hard drive.   I've read it's possible and I know my computer can boot from it. However, it doesn't work when I try. I've booted a LiveUSB from another flash drive and installed Ubuntu onto the 16GB one. It finished successfully, but when I try to boot from it and it takes me straight to Windows 8 instead. I feel I've done something when installing the boot loader.  It'd be great if I had some step-by-step instructions for:     how many partitions to make,  what kind,  how big, and  where to install the boot loader.
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I can boot Ubuntu from USB, but when I took the USB stick out of the laptop and booted again, I got an error saying   Error: unknown filesystem. grub rescue&gt;   What can I do to fix this?
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I have made a BOOTABLE USB installation of Ubuntu 13.04 using . I also have Windows 8 on separate partition. After I finished installing Ubuntu 13.04 from the USB, it went straight to Windows 8 without Grub showing to ask me to select an operating system, how can i fix this ? I don't have UEFI or secure boot.
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When I used my USB stick to install Ubuntu, the USB appears with an Ubuntu icon in My Computer.  Is it possible to customize this icon to something I want?
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I'm having a rough time getting Ubuntu to run from a 250 GB USB hard drive.  I booted Ubuntu 9.10 from a CD and ran the regular "install" to the attached USB drive. I used the "advanced" option on the drive partition question to put the boot loader on /dev/sdb (the USB disk) but when I boot the machine it doesn't recognize there's a boot loader on the USB drive (it offers to boot from 2 other devices but not the USB disk).  I also tried booting from the Ubuntu CD and using usb-creator-gtk to set up the USB drive. Seems to me this is meant to work with flash drives. I got a bootable USB disk but it looked and worked like the CD, i.e. it gave me options of "live CD" operation, installing, memtest, etc. That's not the way I want to run the system.  Some help in installing Ubuntu, bootable into a "full" running system on my USB drive would be appreciated.
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I need a CD or USB stick, that will install Ubuntu on a completely headless machine. Stick CD in and restart, no keyboard or screen should be involved.  There are a few obstacles:   The language selection menu when you first boot the CD. The fact that the CD menu waits. The installer's asking questions during installation.
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I'm absolutely new to Linux. I would like to know how to install Ubuntu alongside the pre-installed Windows 8+ OS.  Should I do it with Wubi, or through the Live USB/DVD?  What steps do I need to take to correctly install Ubuntu?