The problem I see is that the grub is not able to see your init file
in /boot folder, probably because its not able to locate the partition
(wrong referencing).
So, try the following steps:
1. Boot in to your 10.04 laptop or any other computer that has linux installed
2. Insert your USB Stick
3. Now in the terminal, give sudo blkid
4. Copy the UUID value of the USB stick's partition (usually 'sdb1'
but it may vary)
5. Now open the '/boot/grub.d/40_custom' file located IN YOUR USB STICK
6. In this file, add the following lines:
menuentry Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat {
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=UUID=the value copied in
step 4 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic
}
7. Save the file and close
8. Now try this USB stick on your dell mini.
For reference on editing Grub2 entries, see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Creating%20the%20Custom%20Menu
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Maverick 10.10 Desktop i386 installer fails to boot from USB on Dell Mini 9
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/664968
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