Failed booting from USB stick

[Thomas Olsen]

On Friday 16 April 2010 00:07:56 Eric wrote:
> 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?

Just tried and it made no difference. Somehow my flaky memory told me that it 
might but that was either years ago or I was just wrong...
 
> Eric Jackson

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Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen

Thomas Olsen