Maverick on USB created on Jaunty

[Karl Auer]

Hi there.

This is really just FYI:

Wanting to upgrade from Jaunty to Maverick, I created a bootable USB
stick using the USB creator on 9.04 (Jaunty). This would not boot. The
word "boot:" appeared on the screen, and an error message that I
stupidly did not write down - something to the effect that there was an
unrecognised command in some file. I'm guessing in the grub config.

So I reverted to CD for the Maverick install. Afterwards I created a
bootable 10.10 USB drive using Maverick, and it worked fine.

Perhaps the older USB creator is not compatible with Maverick? I created
bootable Lucid USB sticks with Jaunty.
 
If this is the case, it seems a poor design choice - if there's one
thing you want to keep backward compatible, it is the means of
upgrading!

Regards, K.

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