Failed booting from USB stick

[Goh Lip]

On 04/16/2010 05:35 AM, 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 ;-)
>

Did the grub menu come up during start up? If no,try to go to grub menu 
by pressing 'shift' key during start up.

At grub menu, go to command prompt (press'c'), and type
search -f /vmlinuz

check output, (as example here, say...hd0,3 and hd2,1)
type 'esc' to go back to menu and at first entry, enter 'e' to edit

(in this example.... only)
if the entry shows (hd1,1),  change that to (hd2,1) and sdb1 to sdc1

Alt + x to boot.

When booted, at terminal
sudo update-grub
check if changes is effected at /boot/grub/grub.cfg

note: usb 'notations' tends to change, eg
      hd2,1 may become hd3,1 etc especially with multi- usb readers.
      Also will change if plugged into different computers.


Regards - Goh Lip
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