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Re: Z13: ubuntu 14.10 not booting from USB, debian unstable works fine

 

Hi everybody,
Same as Robin ; prefer lts version (14.04)
Regars

2015-02-24 15:22 GMT+01:00 Robin Audy <robinaudy@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

>  Thanks for sharing Heikki!
>
> I am happily on ubuntu 14.04, which I installed from 12.04 (clean install,
> I did not try via update). I didn't have any major issue installing.
>
> -R
>
>
>
>  Hi,
>
>  tried upgrading my Z13 from Ubuntu 12.10 (I think), but the upgrade
> failed (sorry, forgot the details, was a few weeks back). Then I tried
> installing Ubuntu 14.10 from scratch, but had problems booting from the USB
> image, some display driver issues again I think. On a whim I installed a
> minimal debian stable from a USB drive, and changed the repositories into
> unstable ("sid"). Everything seems to work fine! (Haven't tried the
> bumblebee/nvidia stuff yet.)
>
>  Just thought this might be of some interest for somebody stuck with an
> old Ubuntu version. =)
>
>
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