I encountered something like this as well. I used a fresh from the box 4gb drive, went to Create a USB startup disk, tried to install xubuntu 8.1 on it. However, I received a message like Adam Niedling -"non-system disc," etc and not the grub 17 error.
What worked was reformatting to fat32, partitioning the drive and then doing Create a USB startup disc. -- "Create a USB startup disk" does not create bootable USB sticks - GRUB Error 17 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285713 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
