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I'm currently using Ubuntu 13.04 on my ASUS F201E laptop. I'm trying to install a new OS that is meant to be more compatible with my harware.

I've already created a bootable USB with the new OS on it no problem, and am now trying to reboot and install this new OS on my laptop.

My USB is recognized in the BIOS,(I can access the USB 'specs' in BIOS) however not in the boot preference options... It won't boot.

I've played around with other BIOS settings, nothing seems to work.

Any ideas?

First of all, the bootable USB will not show in the GRUB menu, but it will just boot before GRUB loads. Something is wrong with the bootable USB. How did you create it?

I would use dd. It's a command line based utility that, among other things, can create a bootable USB stick.

So download the Mint image to, say, your Downloads folder, insert the USB stick and open a terminal.
The steps are as follow:

$ cd Downloads

$ lsblk

The output shall be something like this:

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT

sda      8:0    0 465,8G  0 disk 

├─sda1   8:1    0   100M  0 part /boot

├─sda2   8:2    0    42G  0 part /

├─sda3   8:3    0     1K  0 part 

├─sda4   8:4    0 242,1G  0 part 

├─sda5   8:5    0  48,8G  0 part /home

├─sda6   8:6    0     8G  0 part [SWAP]

└─sda7   8:7    0 124,7G  0 part /media/data

sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  

sdb      8:16   0 465,7G  0 disk 

└─sdb1   8:17   0 465,7G  0 part

Try to spot out which the USB drive is. You will easily recognize it based on the SIZE column. Please note that you need to spot out the USB stick and not any of its partitions (that is, the ones with TYPE = part). If any of the partitions of the USB stick are mounted, first unmount them all by typing for each of them:

$ sudo umount MOUNTPOINT

Then write the iso image to the USB stick (ALL THE DATA IN THE USB STICK WILL BE DESTROYED):

sudo dd if=<mint_iso_image> of=/dev/sdX

where X is the letter that corresponds to the USB stick and should definitely not be "a".

Disclaimer: Please note that if you are not sure which is your USB stick (or pick a wrong one), this process may have disastrous effects (ie. destroy your data on your hard disk). Please proceed with caution!

Regards, Errikos.

Since you said , " I've played around with other BIOS settings " , i assume that you have configured the correct boot order in BIOS.

The pendrive wasn't bootable.U can easily create a bootable pendrive with the help of a utility named Unetbootin.

To install Unetbootin , go to terminal & type :

sudo apt-get install unetbootin

after you are done with the installation , type :

unetbootin

to launch unetbootin.

Select the image file , pendrive and press ok.If you have plugged in only one pendrive to your system , Unetbootin will automatically detect the pendrive and will save much hastle for you.Once the setup is over, you are good to go.