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pifactory3142
July 10th, 2011, 07:13 PM
Hi

I've set up a sandisk usb stick to boot/install 11.04.

On two eepc netbooks I get the same issue when I try to boot from the usb:

SYSLINUX 3.63 Debian 2008-07-15 EBIOS Copyright 1994-2008 H Peter Anvin

Unknown keyword in the configuration file

I then get

boot:

Ideas appreciated. Thanks.

Rubi1200
July 10th, 2011, 08:17 PM
Hi and welcome to the forums :-)

Try the fix described here to resolve this:
http://alexsleat.co.uk/2010/11/27/how-to-fix-unknown-keyword-in-configuration-file-ubuntu-usb-boot/

pifactory3142
July 10th, 2011, 09:50 PM
Thanks, fixed ok. Machine is now booting.

Rubi1200
July 11th, 2011, 02:58 AM
Excellent! I am glad this worked for you :-)

Enjoy!