Trouble with a Thumb Drive

[yakove]

Ok, I am having an issue using the "Create A USB startup disk". here is what I have done
I have a Kingston 2GB DataTraveler.
1. I have successfully installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my system
2. I have Used the "Create a USB startup" utility
3. while using said utility, I used the Install disk to create the image
and the program says it was successfully done.
4. I also had that program format the drive for me.
5. when rebooting and attempting to go into the USB drive. It leaves me with a command line "Boot:". No matter what I type in this command prompt, It throws back "Can not find Kernel." This happens on both of my computers.
6. I have basically followed this websites instructions to the "T"
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/11...usb-installer/

It still wont work, what on earth am I doing wrong.

[dantrevino]

Originally Posted by yakove Ok, I am having an issue using the "Create A USB startup disk". here is what I have done ... It still wont work, what on earth am I doing wrong.

Have you done an md5 hash on the iso you downloaded and compared it to the correct hash? Did you use the iso or a CD as your "source"? If you used a CD, does the CD boot up fully?

to find the md5sum:

md5sum ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso

of course, substitute the name of the iso you're using..

[yakove]

I used the image on the CD... not the ISO... the Md5sum came back
24ea1163ea6c9f5dae77de8c49ee7c03

I just checked this and it seems to be correct.

The Cd does boot correctly

[yakove]

ok, I also just tried to do it with ISO instead of using the CD... and I got the Same result.

[yakove]

found a possible fix
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/10...l-image-linux/

[yakove]

ok my syslinux.cfg looks like this... is this correct? or is something missing?

include menu.cfg
default vesamenu.c32
prompt 0
timeout 300
gfxboot bootlogo