Failed booting from USB stick

[Eric]

Thomas Olsen wrote:
> On Thursday 15 April 2010 23:35:11 Thomas Olsen wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I just downloaded Lucid Beta 2 and transferred it to a USB stick using
>> unetbootin after usb-creator-kde/gtk both failed miserably. I rebooted and
>> selected "Boot from USB drive" (or whatever it's called) from the built-in
>> boot menu. The system started to boot but then failed saying something like
>> "Unable to find kernel image 'linux'". My knowledge of the boot system is a
>> bit rusty but isn't the kernel called vmlinuz?
>> Is this an error in the ISO image or did unetbootin fail to transfer the
>> files correctly? Or perhaps an error 40 ;-)
> 
> Or is it because the stick is ext3 instead of ext2?
> 


Sorry but I'm curious. Why does it make a difference if it's ext3 or ext2?

Eric Jackson