Comments on: How to run HP Mi Edition from a USB flash drive

By: ololkh

ololkh — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:44:41 +0000

I've made all the steps (except 16-20) with my SD-Card and tried to run it on HP mini 2140. HP Logo appeared, but after that I could see only cursor on the black screen. Does anybody have an idea, what is wrong on it? Maybe screen resolution? I tried it on HP 2140 (1024×576) and on my external monitor (1920×1080)

By: Joel

Joel — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:07:37 +0000

This sounds great. I just bought an HP mini 311 but it does not have Linux or the HP QuickWeb as they call it. Do you know someone who would save me the time and sell an SD memory configured like this? I bet you could sell hundreds of them on ebay.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:17:24 +0000

Hey everyone,

i just put together a copy of HP's MIE in a working Live-CD ISO. This was from a 110 computer, so i have no idea if it will work on other models with the correct ethernet drivers. I had to create it with remastersys after copying the restore partition and installing it on an old computer that was not a netbook since i use Ubuntu Netbook Edition instead on my netbook. It was actually pretty funny watching it install, because i guess since the machine was crappy and not an HP it displayed the COMPAQ logo instead of the ubuntu or hp logo.

and while not perfect it does seem a shame to waste all that money they paid canonical to develop it. I am attempting to host it on the same crappy computer with apache2 at the moment, but if someone perhaps can host it for awhile that would be cool. Maybe a torrent or a mirror?

I sometimes turn this computer off at night and other times dont turn it on for weeks, so if you need me to turn it on for a while just tell me. http://76.76.91.164/hp-linux-8.04.iso

keen101 [at] gmail [com]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:14:56 +0000

By: repelsteeltjie

repelsteeltjie — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:35:40 +0000

Awesome instructions! I got it working on my HP Mini 1035nr. I had to edit the script in initrd.img as noted in the comments. It is running with all devices (as expected). I only followed the instructions up to the grub install step.

As I didn't have a Linux machine handy, I used an Ubuntu live-usb stick on the mini to install to a SD card on the mini. That's called bootstrapping . The $15 4GB card is not doing the speed any favors, but it works! I can easily switch between XP and MIE. Thanks again!

By: marklee81

marklee81 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:24:31 +0000

Could someone emulate a mini and install mi on it? Just a suggestion from a novice geek.

By: rick

rick — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:48:56 +0000

I never got it working from a flash drive, but if anyone is interested in a virtualbox solution look here

http://asparki.blogspot.com/

By: Quikzx9r

Quikzx9r — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:54:17 +0000

Can't somebody just make an iso of what needs to be on the flash drive for a HP mini 1035nr or probabley for any mini 1000? I dont have access to another computer but would like to get into linux. email me at quikzx9r@gmail.com if anybody has a solution.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:41:34 +0000

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:40:59 +0000

Have you been able to get this to work? It seems that I have the same problem as you.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:06:57 +0000

I've tried this with an HP 1035nr. Why can't I get is to work?

By: zisis

zisis — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:06:08 +0000

For grub install problem do this
“grub-install –root-directory=./dennis-liveusb –recheck /dev/sdb1″
!Do not copy and paste!!!!
because the flag — show as single line.

By: atlanto

atlanto — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:19:56 +0000

Though I don't remember well, according to http://whitesc3.blog7.fc2.com/blog-entry-57.html (Japanese page),
(I copied initrd.img-2.6.24-19-lpia to working directory of Ubuntu8.04 on my desktop pc)
$ zcat initrd.img-2.6.24-19-lpia | cpio -i
edit scripts/disk
$ find . | cpio --quiet --dereference -o -H newc | gzip > /tmp/newinitrd
and copy /tmp/newinitrd to initrd.img-2.6.24-19-lpia on SD card

By: hapihakr

hapihakr — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:55:44 +0000

How did you extract the initrd.img?… and re-create it?

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:17:22 +0000

I think the problem is the 16GB pSSD is formatted in NTFS (Windows 7). Since I upgraded my mini to 2GB of RAM I think it should be possible to mount in a ramdisk.