I had made a USB installation using linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-64bit.iso. Then I run it inside from windows 7 and intalled it. After when I reboot the linuxmint is a giving an arror like this
(initramfs) losetup: could not find any free loop device
in the prompt (intramfs) I can type "help" command.
But I am not a linux user, so I dont know which should be used ? Please help to me solve this issue ? Thanks in advance.
The words "USB" and "linux iso" you mentioned lead me to think you did this: you put that iso in the usb flash stick in a way to make it BOOTABLE (like a live cd), or, you TRIED to do that.
To make sure you usb flash stick is really bootable, you should really try to boot from usb stick.
Now, this is what (i think) you should do, and what you did.
What you should do, with the bootable usb stick:
Boot from usb, and click "install on Hard disk" or whatever linux mint has inside it, after succesfully booted the linux SO;
What you did:
Booted windows and used the files inside usb stick, prepared for "loop mount", to install linux.
Hope this helps.
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I don't know this is a right question . But I want to know whether can I make a bootable Ubuntu for my friend from my already installed Ubuntu desktop ? I.e. I want to make a bootable copy of Ubuntu for installing to my friend PC . But I have a desktop which already contain Ubuntu OS . Any possible way to make a bootable Ubuntu from my already installed Ubuntu Desktop ? Any software or tool can I use ?
Don't know that you can just snake an already installed image off your drive.
What you could do however is download the latest Ubuntu Image from here, then find an old USB drive you have laying around and use this fancy utility.
PenDrive makes it super easy to format a USB drive into a bootable device with the image of your choice. BUT, note that a format of the drive is typical.
Hope this helps!
I want to replicate a feature that exists on Windows To Go solution into Ubuntu Linux (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj592680.aspx#wtg_faq_surprise)
If the Windows To Go drive is removed, the computer will freeze and the user will have 60 seconds to reinsert the Windows To Go drive. If the Windows To Go drive is reinserted into the same port it was removed from, Windows will resume at the point where the drive was removed. If the USB drive is not reinserted, or is reinserted into a different port, the host computer will turn off after 60 seconds.
This means: I run Linux on an USB Stick, and I want it to freeze if I accidentally unplug the USB. And if I reconnect it, Linux will detect it and return to work. Can anyone point some directions to perform that?
Thanks in advance!
I am guessing thats going to be more difficult then you think, the linux kernel and other systems need to know to not panic when it happens. Windows is probably set up better for boot drive failure.
Received my Jetson TK1 yesterday. After unboxing it and configuring the Linux GUI, rebooting the device with a mouse (cordless) attached to its USB 3.0 port takes it to some sort of Command line page where it probably loads some files and then the screen starts printing " [ . ] ". Nothing happens beyond that until I restart the board without any USB peripheral and then the device boots into the normal Linux GUI. Unable to figure out what's wrong with my board and why is it not working properly.(I am a newbie to LINUX)
P.S.: Connecting the monitor via HDMI after switching on the device gives no visual output, just a blank screen. Is it possible to connect the device via network adapter for remote access even it the screen is running blank?
The question is quite old, but as some people might get frustrated with it, I'll provide the answer for most probable cause.
Upgrading the board running 19.X release causes libglx.so to be corrupted. The issue have been actively discussed on NVIDIA forums and the best way to solve it is to upgrade to 21.X.
Otherwise, you can try recovering the libglx.so in the usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/ from Tegra124_Linux_R19.3.0_armhf.tbz2.
Could you possibly provide a bit more information about your situation.
Are you able to go to command mode by pressing 'CTRL+F1' or 'CTRL+ALT+F1'?
If that works, it means your Jetson operating system is working but only the GUI is not working properly.
Yes, You can use ssh to your Jetson (what I do) if only the GUI of Jetson is broken and your OS is working properly. Note that in order to do so you need to know ip address of your Jetson and perform some possible router configuration.
Note: Sometimes if you have a USB device connected to your system (jetson), the jetson might mistakenly assume the USB is storage type and therefore tries to boot up from the USB. This leads to failure since it can not load any OS of the USB. (I'm not sure if this is the case for you)
So this is my problem :
I have a macbook pro. I have installed linux on a separate partition (Ubuntu 12.04) and everything was working fine (touchpad, keyboard, etc) and it was perfect. One day, I decided to download a program called wine for gaming purposes. After I did that and rebooted, the mouse (or touchpad) wouldn't work anymore (NOTE: The touchpad is working fine when I boot into mac osx but it does not work when I boot into ubuntu). Now I don't know if the direct cause for it not to work is me downloading wine or if its for any other reason, my question is:
How can I solve this problem?
How do I completely remove wine from my system with all of the files that come with it ? (If that even is the problem)
Is there some kind of configuration file for the touchpad found in the ubuntu system ? If so how do i access it and check it and alter it to work again or something. I just need any solution to this problem I really need the touchpad to work again. NOTE: Connecting an external mouse while booted in ubuntu MAKES THE MOUSE WORK but I don't want that I want the touchpad of the macbook pro to work.
Another side note : the program i use to dual boot is rEEfit.(I can access EFI shell from there .. Is that useful at all ?)
Thanks in advance ..
Wine is a software which helps to run windows applications under linux OS. It has nothing to do with your macbook touchpad drivers. Did you install any drivers or enable any PPAs? did you do a system upgrade just before it worked?
The touchpad on Macbook has always been less than perfect under Ubuntu but have a look at this answer here and the guides here. If you still cannot get it working it might be better if you post the question on Ask Ubuntu.
This might seem like a stupid question but...
After using a USB to install Ubuntu, is it possible to use it as a regular USB again or is it like a CD install and the USB is now only good for installing Ubuntu?
Thanks.
Yes you can.
Infact you can keep the Ubuntu setup as it is and use the remaining free space to store other things, just incase you need Ubuntu installation in future.
You can use it normally, just be sure you have cleaned up the MBR for the case you leave the device plugged in at restart (when USB boot is still enabled).
Easiest is to format the whole partition (or use a partition manager to clean up the whole device). GParted should be able to do this for you.
Some (sketchy!) technical background:
The USB device is a flash device, where bits are stored non-volatile, but eraseable and changeable. Bits at a normal CD-ROM will really be "burned" in as the reflection capacity will be permanently changed when creating a CD. When booting up your computer, there is small memory ROM that contains a bootloader, that is looking up for devices containing a MBR at the first 512 bytes, that will be executed and load the OS (or in your case the first steps of the Ubuntu installation process).
So if you want to use the USB device as normal data storage again, you should also clear up these first 512 Bytes, as the bootloader from the USB could be loaded otherwise when leaving the device plugged in at reboot. Then the bootloader could throw an exception, as it would normally expect the Ubuntu installation files to be present onto this device.