Linpus reinstall issue

I think I tested too much my aspire one, it's time to come back to the original OS.
So I put the recovery DVD into my desktop PC and created a USB pendrive.
From the One bios I set the USB HDD: USB Flash Memory as first device in the boot priority order.
When it tries to boot from the pendrive all I can see are some BB BB BB covering half of the screen, and then the system starts up as usual.
Why this happens? :| It's supposed to start the linpus installer loaded from the pendrive...

 

What's the type of USB ? I try it with a 1gb usb and i have the same result as you BB BB BB BB .

 

mine is 1 gb aswell...
I guess this is the problem, not enough big. Good to know.

 

Hi,

A User from a german aspire one forum has had same issue with Recovery through USB stick:
System defekt

He got 99 displayed.
His solution was to use another USB stick which is better quality and newer (more expensive).

gr33tz,
Tybor

 

Try witha bigger one

 

Just try a bunch of different usb sticks and one of them will work. It certainly isn't the size of the stick, I reinstalled the Linpus OS using my lenovo 1GB and it instantly worked.

 

i had the same BB's also with a 1GB pen disk.

Tried with a 2GB pen and it worked.

 

Same problem: 1 GB pen disk doesn't work (BB error).
Tomorrow I'll try with a 2 GB one.

Thanks

 

Wouldn't an external hard drive work better?

 

I don't know if it's really works. You must Format entire partition of Hard disk .
I try with 1gb don't work. Tonight i try with a 4gb usb and it works fine.

 

Hi,
I first tried with a SD Card 2.0 GB but don't work. I tried with a 2 GB pen and work well.

 

When I had to reinstall, I used the DVD directly with an external DVD reader; the laptop will boot off an external DVD drive just fine, and the recovery disk is bootable.

 

I too got a bunch of B's using a 1 GB drive, then just used an external CD drive that worked fine, but probably took longer. I don't really want to sacrifice one of my larger thumb drives for this.

 

I've used an old 10GB USB HD, the restore to the One SSD took 20 minutes.

 

Perfect... using a 2 GB pen drive it works. :mrgreen:

Thanks

 

Hi,

About the time it takes me 20 to 25 minutes with a 2 GB pen. It's probably the time need to do the system restore.

Thanks

 

Hi,

I had the same problem with the "BB BB BB" characters appearing on boot, and
then resume booting from internal disk.

I solved it by re-writing the MBR (Master Boot Record) for the USB disk.
I used lilo -M /dev/<device_where_your_usb_key_is_goes_here>

If your linux installation does not have lilo (or you don't use linux), you can
always find lilo on the latest knoppix linux bootable cd/dvd ( http://www.knoppix.org/)

Regards,
Duarte Alencastre

 

I bought a new 2GB USB drive and it worked.

 

For anyone who only has an old 1 GB stick and needs at least 2GB for the restore, I just found a pretty good deal here for a 2 GB flash drive for $9 free shipping.

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=204304883

 

Do you mean that once you use the USB drive as a bootable for Linpus, you can no longer use it for anything else?

Thanks!