ntldr is missing

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:23:01 -0500, s.roman <s.roman at gmail.com> wrote:
> whenever I try to boot my computer from the ubuntu cd, or
> smartbootmanager floppy I recieve the message "NTLDR is missing. press
> ctrl-alt-del to restart". Does anyone know what I'd have to do to fix
> this? I checked around the computer and I'm fairly positive it doesn't
> have anything to do with the hardware. My specs are 2 PATA 20gb hard
> drives, pentium 3 1ghz, 512mb ram, Geforce 2 GTS. It's a HP Vectra
> VL400 MT according to the label. I'm not sure what motherboard model
> it has, but it is an intel 815 chipset. Any help would be appreciated.

maybe your computer doesn't recognize both the cd and the floppy as
bootable medias? Have you tried with other copies of that CD and
floppy to rule that out?

According to the first link I get via google:  
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm
"Many times this error is caused when the computer is attempting to
boot from a non-bootable floppy disk or CD-ROM. First verify that no
floppy diskette is in the computer, unless you are attempting to boot
from a diskette.

If you are attempting to boot from a floppy diskette and are receiving
this error message it is likely that the diskette does not have all
the necessary files and/or is corrupt."