difficulties with install on Toshiba laptop

[Bob Albers]

Hi Andy,

I successfully installed on a Dell laptop. I followed all of the
installation instructions to the letter. However I've been unable to
install on two Toshiba laptops. I get a media error on boot. I've tried
multiple USB drives. I have been able to install vanilla xubuntu from a
DVD on the Toshiba. When installed it can read the HR Linux USB drive
perfectly. Is there a way to install your HR Linux from DVD? It is too
large to fit a standard DVD. Or is there a way to boot in vanilla
xubuntu and add all of the programs and settings from HR Linux? Is there
another way to proceed around this problem?

Thanks, Bob

[Andy Stewart]

Hi Bob,

How old are the computers in question? Are you sure that they are in good working order? Do the BIOSs in those machines support UEFI booting? Do they support booting a USB device of 8GB? A sufficiently old machine would NOT support booting a device of that size.

A long time ago, I used to do all of my AHRL installations via DVD. As you mentioned, AHRL has grown in size and now exceeds 4.7GB. However, as a test, one could try an older version of AHRL to see if that works via DVD. I don't see why it wouldn't work.

There is no way to boot standard Ubuntu and install all of the programs/setting/customizations/etc.

73,

Andy
KB1OIQ

[Bob Albers]

Hi Andy,

They are Toshiba Satellite L855-S5121 first produced in 2013. Has 2x USB-3 ports and one USB-2 port. BIOS is dated 2016-08-24. BIOS indicates support for UEFI and secure boot (I have secure boot turned off). I had been trying with 32G & 128G USB-3 drives because I didn't have any 8GB handy. Ordered a couple of different 8GB USB-2 drives to try. While I was waiting for rufus to write the new 8GB drive I tried tweaking the BIOS again. I turned off USB-3, no joy. Then I enabled USB legacy emulation and surprisingly the darn thing booted from the 128GB drive! Installing now!

Thanks & 73,
Bob
AB4OB