Sorry folks, this turns out to be some kind of USB stick and/or BIOS problem.
I had copied the ISO image to the USB stick with 'USB Startup Disk Creator' in Jaunty. It worked normally on an Acer Aspire One, but not with the Thinkpad T41 (as outlined above). Today, I copied the files again with my old reliable Fedora (?) script 'isotostick.sh' (Had to patch udevinfo --> udevadm to get it working). Now working 100 % on the Thinkpad T41 with no errors. Something related to 'USB Startup Disk Creator' is upsetting the T41. -- Ubuntu 9.10 beta installer hangs on Thinkpad T41 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/453604 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