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

[Ken Shaffer]

sudo blkid
should give you a pretty good idea of what's available.  It even picks up
unmounted partitions.
Ken


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Bobbie Sellers <
bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> wrote:

> On 02/24/2014 11:27 AM, Matthew Petty wrote:
>
>> 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!
>>
>>          So what partition editor are you using to examine the disks on
> the ASUS?
>
>         I would suggest getting a copy of Knoppix which has no problems
> with mounting most drives.
>         It should mount the internal drive as well as the Flash Drive.
>  Then you could use the file manager Dolphin
> to examine files on the drives.
>
>     Well good luck.
>
>     bliss
>
>
>
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