[sf-lug] Resurrecting an Asus EeePC 701 4GB

[Matthew Petty]

Hi,
The USB stick I'm using boots OK on my main laptop, so i know it works. The
old laptop is set to boot to "Removable Media", and then the HDD (which is
the 4GB SDD).
I've tried: Xubuntu, Damn Small Linux, Puppy. All work on my main laptop,
none of them work on the old laptop.
I can get into the BIOS on the EeePC. I've switched off Quick Boot and
Quiet Boot. It shows a table of system setup, then counts down 10 seconds
to boot, then just goes to the flashing cursor and sits there.

UPDATE!
It turns out that despite me setting the BIOS to boot to "Removable Media"
first didn't actually mean that it did that. I tried using the at-boot
selection menu, which showed a "FLASH" entry. I selected that, and it
booted into the OS on the USB.

So now I've tested the laptop with Puppy and Xubuntu, and they both boot up.

So that's that problem solved. The issue now is that I'm not sure which of
the drives is the laptops SDD. The USB creates a ramdisk I think, but I
can't seem to find the existing files on the laptop SDD. I'll test again on
my main laptop, to see what happens.
Thanks for the advice!
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