I brought up the vm for the single reason to check the iso was OK. I was sure it was OK but another confirmation didn't hurt.
Yes, yes, the REAL problem is on real hardware. I can't find even one computer where the usb stick will work. I tried it originally on this machine which is less than 1 year old. I thought it was the stick itself so I went to the store where I bought it. The guy there got the same boot error on his machine and told me the iso was no good. I tried 3 more computers, from quite new to quite old and I couldn't get it to get past the boot error on any of them. Fortunately all of them had CD drives so I got around the problem by using a CD. There is another computer which I would like to convert to Ubuntu and that one has no CD. It has 2GB memory which sort of asks for 32 bit, but since I could find even a single computer where the usb stick does work, I doubt it will work there either. My only choice is to use the 64 bit version, where the computer is a bit short on memory. It isn't clear to me why the 64 bit boots fine and the 32 bit gives an error. Until a couple of years ago almost all of my machines were using 32 bit software and I never had any trouble then. Something went bad fairly recently and it is a real pity. Ubuntu is really great software (I've been using it for 10+ years), but the recent 32 bit is dead in the water for a usb stick. Since it did work once, not too long ago, I would hope that someone would look into the problem and fix it. You should be able to duplicate the problem on your machine. If you have some magic where you can make it work, let me know. Maybe I can use the same magic to convert the machine with no CD drive. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1512811 Title: 15.10 32 bit download gives error when run from usb To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1512811/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
