Arkitekt
November 1st, 2009, 12:38 AM
I have run into this manager before when dealing with hard drives.. but never with USB keys.
I downloaded UNetBootin and created a bootable USB key with it for 9.10 64bit. It downloaded the distro, copied the files over, and then installed the bootloader. However, when I try to boot to it I get the 'Bootmgr is missing' message.
The machine I am trying to install this on has 2 drives, the Slave is a media drive, the master hdd has 3 paritions on it (1 for windows 7, one that I want to install ubuntu on, and then a media partition to share between the two operating systems).
I installed Windows 7 64 bit earlier today and now want to install ubuntu into a dual boot environment. I am doing ubuntu second so that GRUB does not get over written.
I have tried to load it up through windows but it just gives me the option to reboot (which it doesn't seem to do), to install it along side windows as a executable program (don't want to do this), or to install a cd boot helper (tried this, failed while extracting. "an error occurred: could not retrieve required installation files" )
I should also add that I have already tried to add bootmgr to the usb key via bootsect.exe on the windows 7 dvd. I ran bootsect.exe /nt60 and it said it was successful, however upon rebooting I received the same message as before.
my usb key is formatted as NTFS, would this cause a problem? does it need to bet FAT32?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I downloaded UNetBootin and created a bootable USB key with it for 9.10 64bit. It downloaded the distro, copied the files over, and then installed the bootloader. However, when I try to boot to it I get the 'Bootmgr is missing' message.
The machine I am trying to install this on has 2 drives, the Slave is a media drive, the master hdd has 3 paritions on it (1 for windows 7, one that I want to install ubuntu on, and then a media partition to share between the two operating systems).
I installed Windows 7 64 bit earlier today and now want to install ubuntu into a dual boot environment. I am doing ubuntu second so that GRUB does not get over written.
I have tried to load it up through windows but it just gives me the option to reboot (which it doesn't seem to do), to install it along side windows as a executable program (don't want to do this), or to install a cd boot helper (tried this, failed while extracting. "an error occurred: could not retrieve required installation files" )
I should also add that I have already tried to add bootmgr to the usb key via bootsect.exe on the windows 7 dvd. I ran bootsect.exe /nt60 and it said it was successful, however upon rebooting I received the same message as before.
my usb key is formatted as NTFS, would this cause a problem? does it need to bet FAT32?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.