Nitesh,
Thanks for your instructions. Unfortunately they didn't help in my case,
see below for details. Based on all I've described, I'm curious to know
if this is a genuine bug in the Maverick ISO image or usb-creator-gtk,
or if my netbook or the USB stick is defective. I'll be happy to do
further experiments and debugging to find out the reason for this
behavior.
$ sudo blkid
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="MAVERICK" UUID="091E-1A5F" TYPE="vfat"
(I set the label manually since it was gibberish after emptying the
stick with usb-creator-gtk.)
The directory /boot/grub.d didn't exist on the stick, there was just
/boot/grub/loopback.cfg. I created /boot/grub.d/40_custom with the
following content:
menuentry "Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat" {
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=UUID=091E-1A5F ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic
}
Booting off the USB stick still drops me into Busybox. The boot menu
still has the original five items.
The stick doesn't contain /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic nor
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic. Instead, there is a /casper
directory with:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 akaihola akaihola 38472 2010-10-23 11:45 filesystem.manifest
-rwxr-xr-x 1 akaihola akaihola 36500 2010-10-23 11:45
filesystem.manifest-desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 akaihola akaihola 10 2010-10-23 11:45 filesystem.size
-rwxr-xr-x 1 akaihola akaihola 692674560 2010-10-23 11:47 filesystem.squashfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 akaihola akaihola 11409807 2010-10-23 11:47 initrd.lz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 akaihola akaihola 4289584 2010-10-23 11:47 vmlinuz
The first item in /boot/grub/loopback.cfg is originally:
menuentry "Try Ubuntu without installing" {
linux /casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper
iso-scan/filename=${iso_path} quiet splash --
initrd /casper/initrd.lz
}
I inserted a new first item:
menuentry "Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat" {
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper
iso-scan/filename=${iso_path} root=UUID=091E-1A5F --
initrd /casper/initrd.lz
}
This didn't change the boot menu, and the stick still drops into
Busybox.
I also tried to tweak kernel options by hitting F6 in the boot menu and
interactively inserting root=UUID=091E-1A5F or root=/dev/sdb1 into the
kernel command line, but it had no effect.
While in Busybox, ls /dev/sd* reveals that the partition on the stick
indeed is /dev/sdb1.
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Maverick 10.10 Desktop i386 installer fails to boot from USB on Dell Mini 9
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/664968
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