[WLUG] Msg. "Failed to install boot loader" when making Start up USB

[Jeff Hanson]

It's possible that the error message is a secondary symptom to some earlier
problem.  Does the USB drive have enough space for the Ubuntu install?


On Fri, 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<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/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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