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Eoghanalbar
November 2nd, 2010, 07:00 AM
It just displays the line "SYSLINUX 3.82 2009-06-09 EBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2009 H. Peter Anvin et al" and a flashing underscore, and goes nowhere.

I made the boot usb from kubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso on an acer aspire one netbook in windows 7 starter, and am trying to install to the same computer (which of course has no optical drive).

Any ideas?

Thanks!

~Owen

wilee-nilee
November 2nd, 2010, 07:31 AM
Make sure your using the latest version of the loader, sounds like unetbootin. Make sure the ISO is a good download.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM#MD5SUM%20on%20Windows

Make sure if you get to installing that you use the W7 disk manager to resize the W7 C partition or any other windows partition. Resize and reboot W7 before installing Kubuntu to the free space. Also be aware of the maximum amount of primary partitions on a single HD.

oldfred
November 2nd, 2010, 08:55 PM
There seems to be a bug, yours may be the syslinux version issue:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1589852
http://my.opera.com/toman/blog/setting-up-squeezebox-server-on-new-hardware
After some fiddling around with the syslinux config files and still not getting it to boot properly, I found a deceptively simple workaround for this: Just type "help" on the BOOT prompt, and when you get the help menu, just hit enter. The system will now boot!

Maverick images burned to usb key on lucid fail to boot - different syslinux version
ui in /isolinux/isolinux.cfg
http://trentscott.com/2010/10/07/fixing-usb-install-issues-with-ubuntu-10-10-maverick-meerkat/
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/syslinux/+bug/608382
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1582446
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9948797