USB Ubuntu

Unfortunately I have not been able to access a computer today that can boot from a USB stick (except fro my own but as I have said it has an invalid compressed format error) so I have not been able to do further testing on other machines.

I did however notice that the rescue disk that I am using to install Fedora didn't using initrd.gz instead it used initrd.img on its own. initrd.gz is just a compressed version of initrd.gz that I am gathering is used to help it fit a a CD. I was thinking though that if I reconfigured the syslinux boot loader config file (syslinux.cfg) to load initrd.img and then extracted the image from the gz archive it might actually circumvent then need to decompress initrd.gz.

If you have any good ideas here please leave a comment as I would love to get it working on my computer.