[Gnom]

Hi !
I'm thinking about adding a dual boot to my Mini 10v which currently has OS X installed. Before I went through all the trouble, I wanted to test Ubuntu a little, so I made a Ubuntu USB stick, and I thought I could just boot it by activating BIOS USB support and putting USB before hard drive in the boot list, but I still get chameleon then OS X. Is there anything I can do to test this stick ?

[EDIT]
Been reading more tutos, trying different settings with the BIOS, and it still seems I did everything right. Could it be that my USB stick is faulty ?

By the way, I used the image found on this page and followed the guide to make the USB stick located on the same page.

[reflex]

Can you boot off the USB drive on another computer?

[Gnom]

I tried on a MacBook and no luck either. I don't have any other computer available for now, but it didn't work with this one (when according to the Ubuntu guide it should have). So I guess I'm either doing something wrong in the making of my USB stick or it is faulty in some way.

I could add that when simply plugging it in an active computer I can see its contents, which seem pretty normal for a linux boot drive (bootloader stuff and system stuff). For what it's worth, the contents are to some extent identical to those of the disk image if I browse it (same files, don't know about all the low-level stuff or what have yous).

[Gnom]

Problem solved : I used a griend's Linux box to create the USB boot drive and it worked, so there was indeed something wrong with the os x method (or with me).

---------- Post added 11-15-2010 at 01:30 AM ---------- Previous post was 11-14-2010 at 11:34 PM ----------

Phew, installed Ubuntu, and seeing all the tutos I never thought it would be as easy as just install and reboot with SHIFT

[reflex]

Glad you got it working.