[WLUG] Msg. "Failed to install boot loader" when making Start up USB
gordon webb
gordonwebb1 at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 23 19:21:13 EST 2014
Hello Andrew
Thank you for the information. I would have figured all USB flash stickes were the same.
Gortdon
On Sunday, February 23, 2014 8:54 AM, Andrew Sallee <ajsallee at faceofthepenguin.com> wrote:
1. These directions will only make an Ubuntu distro, as I recall. There is a different technique necessary to make a bootable drive for a different distro.
2. Some USB sticks just can't be made bootable. try a different stick; check the list of tested sticks to make sure it can work.
Sent from Samsung tablet
James Stroehmann <jaymz at jaymz.org> wrote:
You ever get this working.
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On Jan 10, 2014, at 8:25 PM, gordon webb <gordonwebb1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello All
>
>
>When making Start up USB I got the message "Failed to install boot
loader". I am thinking this is why I have been unable to do an install
on my labtop. What do I need to do to make a working start up USB
stick?
>
>I am using a Dell Ispiron 530 with Ububtu 12.04 to creat the start up USB and following the directions at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...n/FromUSBStick
>
>When I looked at what got saved on the USB stick their are 9 folders, 3
sheet icons, and one icon with gears labled wubi.exe. I clicked on the
wubi.exe icon and the following came up in an "Archive Mannager" box:
>
>An error ocured while loading the archive.
>
>Archive: /media/FF0B-3D95/wubi.exe
>[/media/FF0B-3D95/wubi.exe]
>End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
>a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
>latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
>the last disk(s) of this archive.
>note: /media/FF0B-3D95/wubi.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive
>zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /media/FF0B-3D95/wubi.exe or
>/media/FF0B-3D95/wubi.exe.zip, and cannot find /media/FF0B-3D95/wubi.exe.ZIP, period.
>
>Gordon33
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