FAT instead of FAT32 fixes "failed to load ldlinux.c32" error

[maphew]

I made a 1gb boot usb stick using Rufus 2.2 build 668 using a Lubuntu amd 64 iso image (670mb) on Win7x64. I answered yes to the prompt to download new Syslinux files and accepted all the defaults for cluster size etc.

When attempting to boot I would get the error failed to load ldlinux.c32, please change disks error. I rebuilt the stick several times, including testing for bad sectors (only 1 pass though), with no change in behaviour.

Following a suggestion in [SOLVED] Boot failed: Failed to load ldlinux.c32 I finally got a bootable device by changing the file system to FAT instead of FAT32

[pbatard]

This looks like a pure Syslinux issue to me. There's no reason a Syslinux module should be able to access FAT16 content and not FAT32, so there really is nothing for me to fix in Rufus.

Thanks for reporting the workaround though.

[jasonblum]

Just wanted to share FAT instead of FAT32 also worked for me too.

[JaneSmith]

I'm encountering this issue when trying to setup an Ubuntu 16.10 boot USB stick. Unfortunately, using FAT does not fix the issue. :( Any ideas?

[AhmedSayed77]

I'm also encountering the same issue with ubuntu 16.04. help

[lbdBG]

@AhmedSayed77 @JaneSmith try to download an older version of ubuntu and try it, im not sure but it might fix it.

[AhmedSayed77]

@lbdBG actually that worked. downloaded 14.04, installed it and then updated to 16.04. more steps but works like a charm @JaneSmith

[marslan390]

Please download latest version of software to make USB bootable from https://rufus.akeo.ie/ and launch. If your ISO image will latest then it will ask you to download some necessary files to make this ISO bootable. Download that and then make USB bootable. I hope this will solve your problem

[rs99cool]

My experience has been with Linux Mint. Tried version 18.1 Serena with Fat 32 and then just with Fat and neither one worked. Thanks to this thread, I tried the earlier version 17.1 Rebecca and was delighted to find that it worked just fine! You guys were a great help. Thanks very much!

[gsim]

The latest version of Rufus (2.16) fixed this for me.

[superbag2010]

I tried to install ubuntu 16.04.2 with rufus 1.3.4 and had the same problem. However as marslan390 said, it worked with a latest version of rufus. Thank you!

[iqbaldp]

i dont know