linux - Installing ubuntu to an eeebox eb1033

07
2014-07
  • Jay

    The problem:

    I'm trying to install Linux MCE LiveCD (Ubuntu 8.x or 10.x) to my eeebox pc. After the dvd boots the system all menu options fail because it cannot recognize the dvd drive.

    The setup:

    Asus eeebox eb1033. 32gb sdd. 4gb RAM

    Rosewill external dvd with usb 3 interface

    I've tried:

    • Burned and tried both the 8.x and 10.x versions of the stable release.
    • Set bios to represent Sata drives as an IDE
    • tried command line boot options
    • used dd to zero the sdd drive from busybox prompt

    Searches seem to indicate this bug has been around a while. There might be an unstable version 12.x MCE. Did the issue get fixed with Ubuntu 12?

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks

    • Answers
  • Jay

    I purchased an 8gb SD flash card and used pendrivelinux.com's utility to make a bootable sd card on another machine. This gets the system to where it can be installed.

    Note: There are still a large number of errors flashing past during the install that have nothing to do with install issues. Such as "stdin: Error 0". Pretty sad from a programmer perspective. It is FOSS so I shouldn't complain.


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  • PiedPiper

    Try this:

    Start Linux from a live-cd
    Mount your hard disk (e.g. on /mnt)
    Restore libsepol.so.1 (and anything else that might have been corrupted) to your hard disk from the live cd