I'd like to apologize for not searching to find anything. Actually there were 1000's of search hits, and they were all the fault of Windows.
All I want to do is let VLC play my .ISO movies, and everything should be that simple. I have a 10 year old PC that started out life running Ubuntu so I know it can.
I downloaded 18.04 from the Ubuntu website, and became very scarred when I noticed that the file name is "ubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso", but finally I decided that whoever named it that must have done it for some other reason.
I burned a DVD, and booted Ubuntu up to it's desktop which worked like it should, and looked as good as ever: better! Ubuntu found my disk /dev/sda1 and thinks it is a Samsung 256GB SSD which is good. Ubuntu then did a normal disk install, and suggested a restart.
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So "Cannot find GRLDR" and "BOOTMGR is missing" is shockingly strange since Ubuntu already found the disk, knows all about it, knows there is only one partition, formatted it, and now can't figure out how to write a boot record or find it after it did. And this error has occurred many many times for dual-boot people, all because of Windows of course, but the only windows in the room with this PC are the kinds you look out of.
So if someone please will tell how to fix this, I will be very happy. Although I'm an expert Terminal operator, I know just enough about Linux to not hurt myself.
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