[Devil-Linux-discuss] USB Install Questions

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I've started playing with the USB boot and have managed to get it to work.

Unfortunately, I've run into a problem that has me a bit puzzled. 

If I set up the USB disk to use syslinux for the boot loader, it seems to work OK--until I put the key into another machine.  One of the machines is a laptop running XP, the other a mini-itx running the 500MHZ C3.  I am making sure that the DL machine is off and stopping the key from within XP to make sure I'm not accidentally damaging the partitions.  On the itx system, I'm just trying to boot with the key.

When the key goes back to the (working) test machine, it will boot up to the point where it looks for the config file--and stop.  In fact, the key won't boot into DL until I do a fsck on the drive.  After that, it works again.  If I boot off of the DL cd, it finds the config file stored on the USB key--even when the USB boot doesn't work.  

I have tried creating the partition on the windows machine and then installing, creating the partition on the DL machine using cfdisk or fdisk.  In addition, I've used the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool--with similar results.

The Lilo and Grub boot loaders still haven't worked on this system yet, but I'm toying with them as well.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

thanks, 

joseph