usb-imagewriter karmic 9.10 fails to make bootable ubuntu remix usb-stick

[wirechief]

attempts made with 1gb and 4gb fat32 formated usb-sticks with
Linux wirechief-desktop 2.6.30-2-generic #3-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 1 01:37:37 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ii usb-imagewriter 0.1.3-0ubuntu1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 992837632 2009-05-05 21:52 jaunty-netbook-remix-i386.img
mounted on /media/disk ls -l gives
ls -l
total 1572
-rwx------ 1 wirechief root 157 2009-05-05 22:52 autorun.inf
drwx------ 2 wirechief root 4096 2009-05-05 22:52 casper
drwx------ 3 wirechief root 4096 2009-05-05 22:52 dists
drwx------ 2 wirechief root 4096 2009-05-05 22:52 install
-rwx------ 1 wirechief root 31288 2009-05-05 22:52 md5sum.txt
drwx------ 2 wirechief root 4096 2009-05-05 22:52 pics
drwx------ 5 wirechief root 4096 2009-05-05 22:52 pool
drwx------ 2 wirechief root 4096 2009-05-05 22:52 preseed
-rwx------ 1 wirechief root 240 2009-05-05 22:52 README.diskdefines
drwx------ 2 wirechief root 8192 2009-05-05 22:52 syslinux
-rwx------ 1 wirechief root 1535521 2009-05-05 22:52 wubi.exe
The usb-imagewriter completed its install to the USB sticks without errors....however is not bootable, the netbook under test is a Acer Aspire one, I have been able to bootup to knoppix 6.01 Adrian without any issues on that model.
I have used the usb-sticks on prior tests with Ubuntu Jaunty and the usb-startup creator since the final release ok.
cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu karmic (development branch) \n \l

I expected the Acer Aspire to boot the usb stick but it just rolled right on into windows. :(

[wirechief (wirechief)]

changing my bios setup so that booting took place with usb fdd instead of usb hdd generic-multi-card allowed the
latest version of karmix remix of May 15th to boot however it failed to reach the desktop instead dropping to an initramfs busy box, i tried capturing the casper.log to /tmp/stick/casper.log but am unable to mount the stick at this moment, I used the usb-imagewriter to make the stick and gparted shows a caution on the file system. However i did
see a error with debug= set,
11.788475 SQUASHFS error: Major/minor mismatch, older Squashfs 3.1 filesystems are unsupported.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

I close this report because jaunty and kermic reaches end of life.
thanks
fabio
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