#INSTALL UBUNTU FROM USB WITHOUT BIOS INSTALL#
Once the system is loaded you will be presented with below screen, where you can choose to run Ubuntu live or to install Ubuntu on you system. And the laptop is booting from the usb stick as you can see by the Ubuntu Live bootscreen. Here I will select the usb drive as the desired boot device. This will start the boot device selector. I reboot the machine and at boot time I keep the escape key pressed.
Now I plug the Ubuntu Live Usb Stick into one of the available usb ports. To exit the Bios Setup Utility I keep pressing escape until I see below exit screen, where it says: "Save configuration changes and exit now?". At the second boot device I press enter and I select Removable Dev. There I move down into the Boot Device Proirity settings. I use the arrow and enter key to navigate to the Boot tab. Your bios will probably output a message at the bottom of the screen at the beginning of the boot sequence, which tells you what button you need to press to access the setup menu.Īfter the initial boot screen the Bios Setup Utility is presented at the Main tab. On my Asus I need to press the F2-key at boot in order to access the bios-setup menu. At boot time I can choose the desired boot device by keeping the ESC-key pressed. I will show you how I go into the bios of one of my laptops, an Asus eeePC, and set it up for enabling the usb for booting as the second boot device.
#INSTALL UBUNTU FROM USB WITHOUT BIOS SOFTWARE#
Therefore, in order to boot from the USB stick you have created, you will enable this in the bios settings of your computer.īios: The first piece of software that runs on your computer and which initiates all hardware.īoot loader: Software that initiates the loading of the operating systems.Įvery manufacturer has a slightly different bios. Checking the usb drive for a boot loader will usually be disabled as usb drive have a higher risk of transmitting viruses that install at boot time, etc. If none is found it will check your hard drive and it will boot from there. This means that every time you turn on your computer it will look first for a boot loader on the DVD player. Most computers with DVD-players will have the DVD-player set as the first boot device.
If you are booting from a DVD you will probably not have to make any of these changes that I will discuss. In this article I will go through the process of booting your computer or laptop from a live Ubuntu usb stick and installing Ubuntu on your machine. So once you have got Ubuntu on your live usb drive, you are ready to boot your computer with it.