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johnnyleitrim
August 12th, 2010, 11:40 AM
Hi,

So I have 32bit kubuntu on my desktop, and want to install 64bit ubuntu since I'm going to upgrade my RAM to 6GB.

I used the "startup disk creator" to load the 64bit ISO onto a USB stick.

This USB stick will boot 2 of my other machines just fine (which also have 32bit ubuntu), but it won't boot the machine I'm trying to upgrade. The only message I get when I try to boot is:

"Boot error"

and I must take out the USB and reboot.

I am confused why 2 of my machine will boot fine with the USB stick, and my desktop won't. The only real difference between the desktop and the other machines is that I used mdadm to create a soft RAID-0 array, but the standard boot partition isn't on that array, so I didn't think it would make any difference.

Does anyone know why I might be getting these errors, or is there any way I can see a log to try and track the error down?

Thanks,
Johnny.

johnnyleitrim
August 12th, 2010, 12:52 PM
Found the solution - was a BIOS setting issue for some reason. Seems like the default BIOS settings on my particular motherboard stop boots form USB?

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/262853-12-intel-d945gclf2-mini-boot-stick