Device stuck on "booting from hard disk"

drachs022xxx · February 23, 2019, 11:40pm

Hi guys,

thanks for your help it finally worked

MrChromebox · February 24, 2019, 12:44am

SeaBIOS reports ‘Booting From Hard Disk’ for USB drives, so that’s not indicative of anything.

If your USB isn’t booting, it’s not formatted/written in a way that’s compatible with SeaBIOS. As most/all ISOs are “hybrid” type, the best way to write to USB is as an image (dd, etcher, etc) vs using some crappy tool like unetbootin

drachs022xxx · February 24, 2019, 10:54am

I think it was because of the bootloader but it finally worked. Thaks so much for your help!

mladen · February 24, 2019, 5:53pm

We need more information: what version exactly you downloaded, what are your other laptops (it may be helpful) etc. There’s a simply step you can do: download the Ubuntu image again and copy it to the USB and try again.