[ubuntu-uk] creating a USB startup disk

[David King]

I am still having problems with the bootable USB flash drive I am trying 
to create. It still will not boot, it gives an error saying that it 
cannot find the linux kernel image. I compared the contents of the drive 
with the Ubuntu 8.10 CD and saw that the CD had more directories than 
the flash drive, so I copied those over to the flash drive.

But it still does not boot, so still something must be missing.

Attached is a list of directories and files on the flash drive


David King



David King wrote:
> I have created my live USB Ubuntu flash drive, which is certainly now 
> bootable, so nothing wrong with the drive itself. But, it had an error 
> when booting about not finding the linux kernel. I will have to 
> investigate further when I have the time, but at least I know that the 
> flash drive is bootable.
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> But I do not see why the Ubuntu program to create a USB startup disk did 
> not work in making the flash drive bootable, whereas the "Install Live 
> USB" program which I used did make it bootable. I
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