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retrovertigo 08-30-2008 09:45 PM
Booting Ubuntu LiveCD from USB Stick using GRUB as the bootloader
 
I've had nothing but trouble getting syslinux to work, maybe it has something to do with the size of my flash drive? (8GB) Anyway, I decided to repurpose a USB drive to boot both the SystemRescueCD distro and a few LiveCDs, among them Ubuntu 8.04.1. I was able to get it to start booting, but it hangs before ever starting X. The last thing that shows up on the screen is the usb stick itself being detected. I checked /var/log/dmesg after rebooting but the information wasn't saved to the log.

Anyway, here are the relevant lines of my menu.lst file. Is there a kernel parameter that I am leaving out, maybe?

Code:
title                Ubuntu Desktop 8.04.1 LiveCD (i386)
root                (hd0,5)
kernel                /casper/vmlinuz
initrd                /casper/initrd.gz


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