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So recently my dad upgraded his PC and I was going to take his old one and put ubuntu on it and run a plex media server. But the issue i'm having is that it is saying bootmgr error whenever I try to boot from the USB drive. I have formatted the drive in fat32 and used the linuxusb tool to make it bootable, and i'm still getting this error. Any help would be appreciated!

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some boxes are able to boot from USB, but REALLY dont like to...

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So burn in to a dvd?

well... i may be oldschool but generally thats what i do.

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Are you actually trying to boot from the USB stick or is it trying to boot off the hard drive still?

 

Also, if this is a prebuilt with Windows installed, the OEM may prevent things from running. I've had 2 desktops that flat-out refuse to boot a Linux USB but will gladly boot a Windows USB.

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If you're getting BootMgr is missing, then its going past the USB boot and trying to boot a disk volume that has no boot sector (or your USB isnt actually bootable).

 

Make sure you definitely have set your Boot Priority correctly in BIOS. 

Check your BIOS/POST and see if theres any option to boot from USB.

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When i was first installing Ubuntu I had this issue. I will try to find what my issue was. I do not remember.

CEO of DevTech Studios. OS X fanboy, Windows User. Bob Marley. 

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Have you tried partitioning the hard drive and booting Linux off of that? I think that will work, I do not have much experience with Ubuntu and stuff. I just know that is how mine is set up.

CEO of DevTech Studios. OS X fanboy, Windows User. Bob Marley. 

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I like Rufus for making live usb's. Also, get a fresh ISO and verify it after you download it to make sure you've got all the bits (you know, don't want to make a usb with a broken file). HashTab on Windows works great.

 

I'm making the assumption that you're setting up the USB from windows. 

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