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Thank you for the information. I suspected that was the case, but didn't know for sure. Always best to know for sure before doing anything hard to reverse! It's working great now. I really appreciate the help and the quickness of getting it. I doubt I'd have gotten such a good and quick answer from ...

Just an update: the BIOS update to the August version worked fine, and Ubuntu 9.10 desktop installed easily. Reboots now work as intended, with no CD-ROM. Happy time! Had a bit of a problem building the USB drive since my desktop is running Win2K, not XP and the program that formats the USB drive fo...

One last question...why the August BIOS update, rather than the December one?

Do they have to be done in order? Is there something about the December one that won't work with a Fit-PC2?

ADVthanksANCE!

Great call! That's the problem. The link you provided had a workaround of disabling the Boot-time Diagnostic Screen. I disabled the Boot-time Diagnostic Screen and got a grub prompt rather than an OS not found message. Due to all the messing around I've done, the grub setup is FUBAR, so it didn't bo...

Thank you for the reply. I have a Fit-PC2. got it through Amazon.com. The BIOS is Phoenix CSS 2009 SP3B, and the date is 7/21/09. In theory the grub loader should be getting installed by the Ubuntu install, but I did wonder about that and tried "sudo grub-install /dev/sda" and got a message saying "...

Hello, I've been trying, so far unsuccessfully, to get my fit-PC2 working with Ubuntu Linux. I've tried 9.10 desktop, 9.04 server, and 8.04 LTS, repeatedly, and without success. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm installing from CD-ROM using a USB external CD drive. The Fit-PC2 has a 500GB W...