Need Help Booting Toshiba Laptop From CD or Flash

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by bper, Apr 20, 2011.

  1. bper

    bper Corporal

    Hi,

    I have a toshiba satellite notebook that I want to boot from other media. It seems to only boot from HD. I check the bios and the boot order is CD->USB FDD->HD.

    I have suspicions that the CD may not be working. I tried to use an external USB CD or a bootable flash drive, but it does not boot from those sources. Both CD and flash boot other machines.

    What could I do?
     
    bper, Apr 20, 2011
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  2. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    and the model is?
     
    plodr, Apr 20, 2011
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  3. bper

    bper Corporal

    Model: U205-S5002
     
    bper, Apr 21, 2011
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  4. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    Put the USB stick in before you turn on the computer. Turn it on and I believe F12 gets you the boot menu. Use the arrow key to highlight the device you want to boot from and then press enter.
     
    plodr, Apr 21, 2011
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  5. bper

    bper Corporal

    Put stick in before turning on laptop. F12 does nothing. there is a selection on toshiba boot screen to select media. When I select the usb stick, it hangs with a flashing cursor.

    I'm trying to boot ubuntu, but it happens with other boot sticks also, not just linux. The sticks that I try work in other computers.
     
    bper, Apr 21, 2011
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