Failed booting from USB stick

[Thomas Olsen]

On Friday 16 April 2010 06:01:45 Goh Lip wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

When holding down the shift key it goes directly to a "boot:" prompt. When not 
holding it down it first complains about missing kernel image "linux" and then 
goes to the "boot:" prompt.

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Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen

Thomas Olsen