It looks like Mental Ray is not loaded, this is usual for Maya and only requires you to load it via Windows > Plug-In Manager
Look for mayatomr.mll in to list and click autoload and then load. Close the Plug-In Manager and you will now be able to render with Mental Ray.
Chris (formerly R@nSiD)
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