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speakeasy
May 18th, 2008, 09:50 PM
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 8.04 on a Dell 700m with a broken cd drive. I've tried setting up a usb fhalsh drive to boot from, i've tried unetbootin, and i've tried the fedora 9 liveusb-creator. with each avenue i've been getting the same problem, after booting from the usb, it goes to boot and i get
Booting GRLDR...
Turning on gate A20...
Missing helper.
and if i remember correctly one attempt with a usb drive it came back with "missing loader..." or "missing bootloader..."
can anyone help?

garyedwardjohnston
May 18th, 2008, 10:45 PM
Have you changed BIOS to boot from USB first?

speakeasy
May 18th, 2008, 10:51 PM
Have you changed BIOS to boot from USB first?

yeah