Just got a free Dell Inspiron530, with nice specification. I plan to use it us my working desktop. So, start to install xubuntu on it. As I have already have a live-usb, the usb will be used as the installation source. But I get a problem. We the system try to boot from my USB drive, it complain "boot error". This is really strange as I use to use my USB driver to install another two computer. After googling on the internet, I figure out the problem is from Dell's awful BIOS. The BIOS require USB drive to be exactly formated as it wanted, otherwise it will treat the USB drive as USB-zip0. The only software that I find be able to formate my USB drive to follow Dell's requirement is HP USB storage format tool.
After format my USB drive by using HP USB tool, this computer successfully recognized USB drive as USB-HDD and it did but into xubuntu installation interface. But I got another problem. The installation program cannot read the partition. The reason is, this old computer's hard disk used to be used to build a raid. So, there is old raid information on it. After remove the raid information by using
"dmraid -E -r /dev/sda".
xubuntu installation program successfully recognized all my existed partition.
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