PC no more boots XP, no DVD drive no usb stick. Help me to boot from N900
 

I installed bluetooth on my netbook and now it shows fatal error. login services... safe mode does not help. I downloaded and extracted ubuntu iso on my N900. but the default iso does not seem to boot. Maybe someone could help me to get a bootable linux on my N900. Please help I need my PC ASAP. :(

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P.S. I am away from home in Greece, there I have no external DVD drive, no xp CD. recovery partiton is deleted, system restore is disabled, so there is noo way I can get those xp running... my best try is to get linux on my netbook using N900 as memory card reader in mass storage mode...

Re: PC no more boots XP, no DVD drive no usb stick. Help me to boot from N900
 

get a cd burned by ur friend or in a shop

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And where I will put that CD? I said I have no optical disk drive...

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I suspect you'd have to unpack the .iso to MyDocs/, and then I'm not sure how to make it bootable...

Anyone know what it takes, if anything, to make it bootable?

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u can use ur friends pc to download ubuntu and make your n900 bootable by following the steps to make a usb disk bootable on ubuntu.com

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you need a card reader, not sure if that works
format your sd card with fat32 or ext3, download GRUB or GRUB for DOS, install GRUB on the card, than make your PC boot from USB whit the card reader, if you have XP install but can not boot, GRUB can find that partition and boot with the XP with this:

change the (hd0,0) to (hd1,0), because your sdcard reader will be the first partition

or you can find some bootable image on internet something like WinPE and boot with GRUB for DOS

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If your pc can boot from network you can setup a pxe boot server on your n900. i did it some months ago to install the lucid beta on my netbook.
Unfortunately i have bricked my n900 and didn't backup the files. :(

Edit: Cool, i had a look again and the files are still there actually! :cool:

Just tell me if you want a tar of the pxe server - i can put it on a server for you. It has FreeBSD 8.0, a pre final version of Ubuntu 10.04, memtest and clonezilla included. You would have to extract a newer ubuntu iso into the pxe root and fire up dnsmasq as dhcp and tftp daemon.

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Download Unetbootin and install the iso on a Flash Memory.

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Thanks for all the aswers, but the deal is that there is no friend with a PC or internet cafe. I am alone with nonworking netbook and my N900. I coud get access to PC only on monday at work but I NEED IT NOW. Is there a solution that involves N900 2GB card and an USB cable? Is there a way to make SD bootable using N900?

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Is there unetbootin for N900?

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Fencer's solution is the easiest if you have some usb flash media and another pc where you can install unetbootin.

Re: PC no more boots XP, no DVD drive no usb stick. Help me to boot from N900
 

There is NO WORKING PC that I coud use.

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I have easy debian, can use it make my sd bootable?

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Does safe mode boot? you could download Unetbootin windows version and install on the 2GB memory you have.

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I am not a total n00b. No of couse safe mode does not boot. If I had a working PC there would be no problem for me, I even had a usb stick formated to boot windows 7. But now I have only my N900 and wifi. :(

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Find a N900 user in Greece and ask them for a bootable USB?
http://pininthemap.com/maemo

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this is the error i am getting:
system process terminated unexpetedly.

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Try doing a manual Iso install? Could take a while though.

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This is very interesting - if OP isn''t interested can you maybe do a little "how to" post?

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In all seriousness...

No, as far as I know, there's no Unetbootin for ARM. Or anything similar. (Strangely, the translation packages are avaliable...)

There might be a version in the *buntu Netbook Remix repositories, but I highly doubt they'll work without tweaks.

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What do you mean by manual?

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PXE is the only option as i see it. Maybe you could install grub on mmc1, to make it bootable from a usb host. But i don't have any experience with it and i wouldn't recommend it in your situation.
PXE is safe. Just find some internet cafe at a sunny place. Download components. Order a drink. Start up dhcp server and hope nobody will notice. Boot your netbook and install. Be happy.

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I am interested, I sent him a PM.

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I was serious :(

Thought since the community is pretty nice, maybe a member can help.

Well here is the MS article on the error if your interested, though not sure if it'll help http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

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Yeah, i thought about it. Maybe i will do it tomorrow. I'll open a new post for it.

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Okay. Maybe you can share your progress.

When you say you installed bluetooth, I take it you mean that you attached an external bluetooth device and installed drivers for it. Have you considered disabling on-board bluetooth via BIOS? Can't hurt.

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I used win7 with beta key for a looong time, about a year. On that note i completely removed recovery partition with xp, and xp system partion as well, but beta expired, and win7 really got slow so i put back xp, so called 250mb performance edition xp... damn it was fast compared to 7. I wanted to keep performance so i avoided instaling most of the software. but this morning i had a vga cable so i hooked my netbook on to a tv. only thing i need was buemaemo. so i googled for samsung nc10 support and installed bluetooth. but install was surprisingly quick (bluetooth usualy takes long). when i clicked my bluetooth places i got an error no device found so i rebooted. in dev man all looked ok after a reboot (i had a yellow icon before) but nothing in control panel no icon. it seems that bt was removed from this performance edition. i tried installing again, when it finished this time it prompted for a reboot, after it i got a bluescreen.

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in bios there is only disable wireless device. and disable onboard lan, i cant seem to find bluetooth. Anyway I think my problem is that i had a password and i used some sofware to autologin with it. the bluetooth install said something about loging out to complete install. i guess that was the problem...

edit:

I dont get driver.sys error. i get login service error. the bluetooth just caused the problem it is not a problem itself.

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Here the upload progress:

pxeroot.tar 32% 78MB 86.4KB/s 32:01 ETA

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Mhhh.. i think there might be a problem. There's no wifi pxe. :o
You need a lan cable for pxe boot.

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Thanks for the update. On a side note I am doing the same things on my N900 that I would on a PC if it would working. Gotta love it :)

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NOOOOOOl but you said you used it your nokia?

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Yes. But i have a router at home and connected my netbook to it. Only the client has to be connected with a cable, because to my knowledge there are no wireless cards/chips with pxe firmware.

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It will work if you find an internet cafe where you can plug your netbook.

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You got scared me for a minute. I have a lan cable (don't ask my why i put things like that in my lugagge when travelling to Greece :D ) and the router is in the hallway it works on wired (tried it)

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I don't think so. Sorry that you have no friends or access to computers. Are there computer stores? You could hire someone to fix your computer.

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hmm. I have an idea. Someone could create a bootable usb and create an exact copy of it. Then you just have to restore it using your phone. I can do this, but my upload speed is UBER slow.

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I would never pay for something that i could do myself...

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Well then, do it yourself! The problem is you need a computer. People usually buy them or have friends with them, but if they have to pay people who have them, they do that.