Improperly burnt Alternate Install USB ? 12.04 Pangolin

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1. Not being confident about optical drive quality, I burnt my Alternate iso (md5 was verified) for 12.04 into a 8GB HP usb stick via pendrivelinux UUI -

2. I have GAG installed to my MBR as I'd rather use that than GRUB in MBR
I'll put Lilo in '/'

3. BIOS boot order is set to make Hard disk as last option

4. BTW I used the same steps in as in 1. to also burn a simple Desktop 12.04 Live to another 8GB HP usb stick via pendrivelinux UUI - this one boots nicely and allows me Live sessions with persistence.

5. But my Alternate USB is stuck in the main menu "Install Ubuntu / Test Memory ...etc " i pressed Enter to boot & got this message
"Could not find kernel image: /casper/vmlinuz"

What do I do ?

[oldfred]

I like to boot ISO directly with grub2's loopmount. It works fine for Desktop, but does not work for alternate or server versions as something in ISO is missing.

I think you have to use the standard unetbootin to create flash drive.

Grub does not loopmount alternate
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/914926

You can add to the bug even if it is not grub2 just to wake up the developers. It really needs 5 or more complaints before they really look at something, but not enough users boot any other way than standard.

[RAM SEN]

Tks Fred
or shud i say RightsaidFred!!