I broke down and put a DVD drive into that system and it worked. I am still convinced the bootloader that is written to the USB is incompatible with our motherboards.
Like I said in the original post the forum thread covers all the things I've tried (thanks to OldFred for many of the ideas). The USB works fine once ubuntu boots in both Natty and Maverick. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/742862 Title: Bootl fails from USB stick -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs