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Feedback on the Dell Mini 10

Asked by Joel Horowitz

Hi,

I downloaded ubuntu-12.04-desktop-amd64.iso to a windows machine and used Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.5.1.exe to create a bootable usb drive for installation.

The boot failed with an error:

/casper/vmlinuz.efi file not found

The fix appears to be (it's still installing on my Dell Mini 1018 2Gb) to put the stick back in the windows machine and rename the file /casper/vmlinuz to /casper/vmlinuz.efi

I'm unsure if this error is caused by Ubuntu or the Universal USB installer.

Kind regards...

...update...
Apparently this was not a solution - the computer went into a loop of executing memtest86...

Is there a way to modify the installation script to look for and use /casper/vmlinuz without the .efi extension?

...update 2...
Used http://www.linuxliveusb.com to create a new bootable USB. Seems to have passed the .efi issue from above and now installing again.

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Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew) said : 		#1

Hello Joel,

This issue is probably raised by the BIOS setting.
You have to switch it from UEFI mode to Legacy for a non-EFI compatible image.

Other than that, you can create a USB stick with the "Startup Disk Creator" in Ubuntu, it would be EFI compatible.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/247946/live-ubuntu-12-04-usb-disc-not-detected-in-uefi

Cheers,
Sam

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ve7vie (ve7vie) said : 		#2

I have just successfully installed 14.04 to my Mini 10 with a new SSD. I used Lili USB creator with the online distro image and it went without a hitch. But note that the recommended image is 12.04 LTS 64bit, which of course will not work with this 32 bit netbook. So far 14.04 seems to FLY with the SSD on this old 1gb machine.

Also I canfirm that the built-in WiFi is NOT recognized, but it works fine with a WiFi dongle.

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Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew) said : 		#3

Hello,

Thanks for updating this.
The wireless card issue could be a bug, I would suggest you to open a bug by 'ubuntu-bug linux' command in your terminal.
Or go to the community, e.g. http://askubuntu.com, for help.

And for the 64-bit image, the Dell mini 10 we have have do have a 64 bit CPU, maybe your laptop hardware configuration is different.

Regards.

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