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

Sat Jan 11 16:16:28 EST 2014

Hi Gordon,
An .iso is just a single file that has the whole system inside it (in this
case).  When you go to "Download Ubuntu" you end up downloading a .iso
file.   It's what you would burn onto a CD/DVD or load onto a USB key.

When you try to turn the HP computer on, are you getting the very first HP
screen (the BIOS)?

What about installing from a CD/DVD this time?

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 3:39 PM, gordon webb <gordonwebb1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello Adam
>
> I am looking in to getting directions on how to check the
> download's"md5sum".  The instructions listed at the ubuntu web site list
> codes when tried I get no such code error messages.
>
> multiple iso at http://sourceforge.net/projects/multisystem/   How will
> this help?  Are my problems an indication of incorect iso's.  Turth is I
> will have to learn what an iso is.
>
> The last 2 or 3 times I did an install it was with a cd or dvd disk.  I
> had no problem.  This time I will learn a lot more.
>
>
>
>
>   On Saturday, January 11, 2014 3:05 PM, Adam Behnke <abehnke at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>  i've had issues creating an installable live usb with unetbootin, i
> liked using multisystem:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/multisystem/
>
> in that one, you can place multiple .iso's on the flash drive and you can
> choose from which one to boot. and you can make them persistent.
>
>
> to the issue at hand, have you run a md5sum of the .iso you downloaded?
> maybe there was a "blip"
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Jim Beckstrom <jrbeckstrom at sbcglobal.net>wrote:
>
> Hi Gordon,
>
>      I have a 2gb thumb drive with kubuntu 13.04.  I installed it on a
> Toshiba Satellite that originally had vista on it, been using it since last
> summer.  (I also just installed it on a "much older" Dell Latitude,
> originally had xp; but couldn't get the wifi to work with xfinity,
> otherwise it worked fine with an ethernet cable.)
>
>
> On Jan 11, 2014, at 12:25 AM, gordon webb <gordonwebb1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  Hello John
>
> Yes the BIOS is set to boot from the USB on the HP G60t-200 lab top  it
> had 10.04 Ubuntu.
>
> The USB KEY was created on the Dell Ispiron 530 that was reciently updated
> with Ubuntu 12.04.
>
> I do not have a windows machine.  I had so much trouble with microsoft on
> the HP lap top and the Dell came with Ubuntu.
>
> I want a USB flash stick to do an install on the HP lap top.  Their are so
> many problems with the lap top an install is my biggest hope.
>
> Thank you for the questions as I am not real failure with computers.
>
> Gordon
>
>
>   On Friday, January 10, 2014 11:46 PM, john thiels <jthiels at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>  I'm going to ask some maybe stupid questions and make some stupid
> assumptions but here goes:
>
> Is your BIOS set to run from a USB key?
>
> When you made the USB key, what did you look at it on?  Your windows
> machine or on Ubuntu?
>
> The  wubi.exe file is your Windows installer and won't open on Ubuntu--it
> looks like the Ubuntu machine is interpreting it as a possible zip file or
> unknown file.  If you put your USB key into a Windows machine to install
> Ubuntu, what happens?
>
> BTW, this is not a "start-up" USB key, like a live distro on a stick where
> you can just start up Ubuntu on any computer and then turn if off and it is
> a Windows computer again.    wubi.exe is an installer program (see:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/windows-installer)   You could run
> an .iso with a VM (forgive me if I have the term wrong but I did this a few
> years ago).  Do you want http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ so that you
> can have a live Ubuntu distro on a stick?  That won't use wubi.exe but will
> maybe do what you want.
>
> Hope this is helpful.
>
> Best,
>
> John
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Adam Behnke <abehnke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In which method was the live USB created? Also, which ISO did you use
> (regular ubuntu or another flavor)?
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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