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:
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.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: (...)
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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