Maverick Meerkat 10.10 beta

I installed the Maverick beta today and had device string error or something like that as soon as I ran off the install from the USB drive. I went to the expert mode and installed it using the old CUI interface.

I also have an XP for dual boot on my PC and chose Grub instead of Grub 2 for boot loader. Everything went well till I tried to boot XP, which too failed with an "Error 11: Unrecognized device string". On edit, I found that the boot string for XP had  (hd0, msdos1). This is wrong and works with (hd0, 0) which is Grub language for /dev/sda1. Looks like this same error had caused the install failure. I'm not sure if any or all of this is mentioned in known issues; I didn't read through them in the excitement of getting things go. :)

I'm happy with installing Maverick beta over Lucid instead of an upgrade because my Lucid had some unresolvable issue of taking the entire RAM immediately on boot up. I wasted enough time finding what was taking so much memory, but didn't succeed there! Maverick doesn't hog as much memory.