Hello Everyone!
I am trying to install Ubuntu Mate(i3somthing intel version) on an Intel PC.
It is an old PC( Emachine w3653). I have installed windows 7 via USB years before, so it does have the ablility to boot to USB;however, it does not seem to want to boot from a USB with Linux( I tried Ubunut Mate and Ubuntu…nothing.)
I did test it by booting to a Windows 7 install a while ago, and it worked., same usb, same slot, but different OSs…
Is there any way to get my PC to boot to Linux? ( I don’t have CDs or DVDs, but I will try that later)
How you created the boot USB?
there is a bug for 15.10 that you cant create a bootable flash drive it will not work.You have to use an older version to create a linux live USB via startup disk creator.
this is from the official ubuntu page
Due to changes in syslinux, it is not currently possible to use
usb-creator from 14.04 and earlier releases to write USB images for
15.04 or later; we believe that it is also not possible to use
usb-creator from a 15.04 or later system to write USB images for earlier
releases. For now the workaround is to use a matching release of
Ubuntu to write the images, but we intend to issue updates soon to work
around this incompatibility. 1325801, 1446646 and 1499746
If the USB is formatted as anything than FAT, the USB is likely not to work. Make sure that the key is formatted as FAT; unetbootin should work fine; I don’t know about the 15.10 bug, though.
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Thanks guys! it was a BIOS issue and a 15.10 issue…i changed a setting and it seen the USB , but booting failed.i then used an older ISO image of mate, and it worked