Comment 37 for bug 277903

I am also affected by this bug. I booted Ubuntu 9.04-i386 image from CD. To be sure the usbdrive is empty i run the following command first:
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc

After dd was finished cleaning the usbdrive I run the tool "USB disk creator" and formatted the usbdrive from within the tool.

I could then boot the usbdrive on one of my computers but on the other one I get "Could not find kernel image: linux".

After that I followed the blog and deleted the partition with fdisk and created a new fat32-partition with GParted instead (including boot and lba options) and then copied the CD onto the usbdrive with "USB disk creator", without formatting the drive inside the tool.

And that worked for me! I can now boot the usbdrive from both my computers.

The failing motherboard is "Gigabyte GA-M55PLUS-S3G", BIOS version "F11 (04/23/2007)".

The output from the diagnostic MBR (the link from TJ on 2009-03-30) when I hold CTRL-key own during boot is: "L D80 C07C HFF S3F P1 O0000003F MAA55 E00". I have no clue of what that means but I hope it is valuble for TJ. :)