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The 16.04 ISO does not boot from USB stick. I get the following error:

Missing parameter in configuration file. Keyword: path
gfxboot.c32: not a COM32R image
boot :

I made a boot stick with Startup Disk Creator on 14.04 LTS on a HP Pavillion laptop. I tried the solutions on these posts without success:

Ubuntu 16.04 final not booting from stick: gfxboot.c32: not a COM32R image

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS live USB boot error (gfxboot.c32:not a valid COM32R image)

When I type any of the options revealed by [TAB] after the boot: prompt and hit [ENTER], the computer reboots. I tried: live, live-install, check and hd. After rebooting, the boot: prompt appears again. Also, the prompt keeps getting printed to screen every few seconds if I don't do anything.

Edit:

The ISO might have been corrupted. Re-downloading it in a Windows PC and making the USB there solved the issue.

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This is bug 1325801. The wrong version of syslinux gets used, the one from the running system instead of the one from the ISO. If you have a runnable 16.04 live system, you can use it to make another one with Startup Disk Creator, or just use mkusb on the 14.04 system, which will give you a safer way to use dd, which works too.

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