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    Thumbs down Anyone else have trouble with 10.10's USB creator?

    I installed Maverick yesterday on both my laptop (32-bit) and desktop (64-bit). So far I'm liking it except for a couple of minor issues, and this is one that I feel is worth pointing out.

    Last night I was troubleshooting a wireless problem on the laptop and I tried to boot from a USB drive onto which I had added an image for 10.04 using 10.10's usb-creator-gtk (the Startup Disk Creator in the Administration menu). After the BIOS screen I got this error:

    Code:
    SYSLINUX 4.01 debian-20100714 EDD Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al
    Unknown keyword in configuration file: gfxboot
    vesamenu.c32: not a COM32R image
    boot:
    vesamenu.c32: not a COM32R image
    boot:
    (...)
    Huh. I redid the disk... same error. I swapped flash drives... same error. I knew that it was highly unlikely that both my flash drives had developed the same glitch simultaneously, so I went over to another computer, running 10.04, and redid the drive on there. Surprise, surprise: it worked. I was able to boot from the flash drive.

    Up until then I'd been using the usb-creator-gtk on my 64-bit desktop. I haven't tested the 32-bit version on my laptop, but I suppose the problem could be with the 64-bit version only. Anyway, I don't really know what the error means and I don't know what could have caused it. I wonder if anyone else has had, or has heard of, similar issues?

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    Re: Anyone else have trouble with 10.10's USB creator?

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    Re: Anyone else have trouble with 10.10's USB creator?

    This issue has been described in Maverick release notes:
    "It is not possible to create Ubuntu 10.04 USB disks from the Startup Disk Creator in Ubuntu 10.10 due to a backwards incompatibility in the syslinux program."

    Source: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeerkat/ReleaseNotes#Common Desktop Applications

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    Re: Anyone else have trouble with 10.10's USB creator?

    Quote Originally Posted by adoomer View Post
    This issue has been described in Maverick release notes:
    "It is not possible to create Ubuntu 10.04 USB disks from the Startup Disk Creator in Ubuntu 10.10 due to a backwards incompatibility in the syslinux program."

    Source: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeerkat/ReleaseNotes#Common Desktop Applications
    Thank you. I didn't know that page existed. I can only assume that there will be a fix at some point, hopefully soon; in the meantime., I'll keep Lucid around on a computer for making USB disks.

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    Re: Anyone else have trouble with 10.10's USB creator?

    great timing on the post, I have just run into this issue...
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    Re: Anyone else have trouble with 10.10's USB creator?

    I ran into the same problem when trying create a USB boot to downgrade from 10.10 back to 10.04, because evolution-exchange doesn't work under 10.10 (but that's another story).

    There's a super easy workaround for this USB creator issue for those wanting to go back to 10.04:
    http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-image-829397/

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    Re: Anyone else have trouble with 10.10's USB creator?

    Not sure if it's the same thing, but I got the same COM error and just hitting tab worked so I was shown the various boots (live, install, etc).

    I typed live and away we went. Didn't try the others.

    Just doing an install from live and it seems to be working.

    Cheers
    Moray

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    Re: Anyone else have trouble with 10.10's USB creator?

    Same here ... bad afternoon...
    from 10.10 desktop 32b
    > making 10.04 usb reinstall stick : no problem
    > 9.10 : vesamenu.c32 : not a com32R
    > 9.04 : vesamenu.c32 : not a com32R

    thank you, Morayj, "tab" was the point !!

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    Smile Re: Anyone else have trouble with 10.10's USB creator?

    Thank you Moray. Your solution also worked for me using Mint 10 Creator for making a USB Stick.
    I had tried typing "help" and then ENTER but that did not work.


    Quote Originally Posted by MorayJ View Post
    Not sure if it's the same thing, but I got the same COM error and just hitting tab worked so I was shown the various boots (live, install, etc).

    I typed live and away we went. Didn't try the others.

    Just doing an install from live and it seems to be working.

    Cheers
    Moray

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    Unhappy Re: Anyone else have trouble with 10.10's USB creator?

    I try to install Xubuntu 10.04 in an old Desktop..
    (compaq presario SR1405LA) without O.S.

    I got the same error
    then <TAB>
    ..live
    the installation process freezes when it gets to 85%
    then after a few hours I turn it off
    ..live-install
    second time the installation process told me that already have an O.S. but Ubuntu 10.04 (..so I get a little confused)...it freezes to 75%

    I did try the check, the memtest and the mainmenu options (which only the last one doesnt work)
    ..could not install the system....
    mi segundo nombre es PELIGRO!

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