I have used the page below with two 2 Crucial memory sticks. A 2Gb and a 8Gb.

Create a Bootable Ubuntu USB Flash Drive the Easy Way
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto.....-easy-way/

The process works fine for the 2Gb stick but the 8Gb stick consistently gives:
"Could not find kernel image: linux".

Tried so far:

Ran the process 3 times, same result.

Performed the "Make Sure the Partition is Active" using Vista and whilst all the messages gave the impression of success the end result was the same.

Observations:

I have observed that although both memory sticks start off with a complete syslinux.cfg file, when the 8Gb stick is used this file is empty after the attempted boot. It's certainly is not before though.

The only thing I can find different between the 2 sticks, other than capacity, is that the 2Gb stick is formatted to FAT and the 8Gb is formatted with FAT32. As I understand it that shouldn't be an issue for Linux?

Any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks

Lester