Booting Asus EEEPC 111 HA from USB

[Jacob Schmude]

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Hi Dave
You need to be quick, very quick, to get the USB boot menu. Begin
hitting esc directly after you hit the power key, even before the disks
start spinning. This is necessary to get past the quickboot feature
which, if enabled as it is by default, skips much of the boot sequence
and boots directly onto the hd. On some netbooks, such as the 1005PE
that I have, it may take you several tries to hit it fast enough. That
quickboot feature is very quick indeed on some models. Once in the boot
menu, USB is the second choice so hitting down arrow once should get you
there.
Note. If you want to leave the quickboot feature enabled for use with
Ubuntu, leave the EFI partition (Ubuntu installer sometimes says it's
unknown) at the end of the disk in place. This is where the information
for quickboot is stored. Otherwise, erase the partition and quickboot
won't bother you again. Personally, I like quickboot as it does shave
five seconds or so off of the boot process. However, if you upgrade the
memory or otherwise change your netbook's internal configuration in any
way, you'll need to erase and remake the quickboot partition so the new
information can be stored there.
hth

On 04/12/2010 12:05 AM, Dave Hunt wrote:
> Hello List!
> 
> I Just acquired the subject netbook; it is equipped with Win XP home.  
> In the Ubuntu community docs, it is suggested that hitting the escape 
> key, during power-on, will bring up the list of bootable devices, from 
> which I should be able to choose the USB stick.  This does not happen.  
> The machine boots immediately into Win.  I've also tried using f2 to 
> enter setup.  My sighted helper has looked in the user manual for this 
> machine, and can find nothing  about how to get into bios setup.
> Thanks for anyy help!
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> 
> Dave  Hunt
> 
> 
> 

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