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Want to try out Ubuntu 13.04 on my HP Pavilion dv7 1132nr but I keep getting this error.

SYSLINUX 4.06 EDD 2012-10-23 Copyright (C) 1994-2012 H: Peter Anvin et al

First of all, a few things:

  1. I tried many USB installers such as Universal USB Installer, LILI, and UNetbootin, all gave me the same result

  2. The drive was formatted before installation (FAT32).

  3. The iso isn't corrupted, the MD5 all checked out.

  4. I have another Linux Distro on this machine, would that cause this to happen?

  5. The USB Drive is a Sandisk 16GB.

Hope one of you guys can fiqure this out.

Seth
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  • found a similar, possible same, question. Problem is it seems the question hasn't been answered or had any attention for a while. Also here – Nil Apr 30 '13 at 23:43
  • Your not doing a wubi install by chance, are you? – Nil Apr 30 '13 at 23:48
  • No, I'm not using Wubi. – user154258 Apr 30 '13 at 23:54
  • found another person with the same issue, but they resolved it by formatting the drive fat32 then using a usb installer. You did all this and still have the problem. Does anyone else have this problem? It might be a bug. Round about solution might be to install 12.10 then upgrade the distribution to raring. – Nil May 01 '13 at 00:02
  • Ill try that next. – user154258 May 01 '13 at 00:09
  • Nope, still getting this annoying screen, I'm beginning to think the USB is corrupted (its been moved around alot) or its a problem to report to theses Live USB creators. Ill try another USB later and see if that's it. Thanks for your suggestions. – user154258 May 01 '13 at 19:28
  • syslinux is the bootloader on the live version of ubuntu. It's suppose to give you the option between installing and trying linux. For other people with this problem it was a missing config file caused by a small flashdrive, but in your case that can't be the problem. Is there another machine you can test to see if your flash drive will boot from? Also, this question implies the problem might be with hp. – Nil May 01 '13 at 19:51
  • the answer to this question seems to indicate using a smaller flashdrive solved the problem. Another answer I saw somewhere said sandisk usb's were the problem. So may different answers that worked for different people with the same problem...hard to tell what causes it. – Nil May 01 '13 at 19:59
  • Like I said, I will be buying another flash drive as I'm thinking this one is corrupted. Also I did get a Linux distro (Mint 14) to boot and install without any problems and it was using this same USB drive. – user154258 May 01 '13 at 22:25

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