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Now I have Win7 on my laptop, and I want to install Linux. I downloaded the latest Ubuntu 13.04 32-bit (and also Mint 15 32-bit), and installed it on my flash drive using the Universal USB Installer – Easy as 1 2 3 (also tried UNetbootin). Then I reboot from the flash drive I simply got a blank screen with a blinking cursor. Nothing happens at all. No harddrive activity.

Then I used LinuxLive USB Creator to install it with a Virtual Box on the flash drive, and tried to boot directly within Virtual Box, got the same blank screen. What is going on? This is not the first time I install Linux but I really got no clue.

My latop is a Sony VAIO with Pentium Dual-Core T2330 CPU.

Update:

Now I installed virtualbox and I'm able to boot from the ISO image, which means both my computer and the ISO image should be fine. However I'm still not able to boot from the USB to really install Linux on my computer. This is so frustrating, I don't want to be stuck with Windows!

LWZ
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Run VirtualBox, click Settings, select System in the left pane then go in Processor tab.

Check Enable PAE/NX.

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Reference

What is PAE?

The Enable PAE/NX setting determines whether the PAE and NX capabilities of the host CPU will be exposed to the virtual machine. PAE stands for Physical Address Extension. Normally, if enabled and supported by the operating system, then even a 32-bit x86 CPU can access more than 4 GB of RAM.

This is made possible by adding another 4 bits to memory addresses, so that with 36 bits, up to 64 GB can be addressed. Some operating systems (such as Ubuntu Server) require PAE support from the CPU and cannot be run in a virtual machine without it. Manual

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Depending on the distro you can do the proper setup from within the VM. If you can enable usb passthrough or the equivalent for the usb stick, you can use the linux vm to dd the iso onto the usb stick, which works on a fair amount of distros.

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Try Using POWER ISO->"Create bootable USB drive" option under tools menu to make a bootable usb drive....!!! OR use any other softwares like ISTOUSB(download this from www.istousb.com) to do this...!!

CHECK YOUR VAIO BIOS BOOT OPTION FOR EXTERNAL DEVICE BOOT ON!!!! FIRST

Vignesh Nedunchezhiyan
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