USB boot hangs

[dgtlrdnck]

Beginner's Help -- perfect place for me!

I am trying to get Puppy to boot off of a USB Flash drive. I have downloaded a couple versions with no luck. The machine is a Dell Inspirion 1300, and it boots fine off of the live cd. Which is good, since the utility in setup is how I am making the flash.

My flash currently is configured with version 1.0.8, and starts to boot fine, then hangs at "usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1"

From searching the only thing I have found, and not tried, is that Puppy is may be looking for a USB keyboard and there is a conflict with the boot device. If this is the case, how can I disable the keyboard search?

Or, is there something else I can try.

Any ideas?
Thanks

[Flash]

Have you tried plugging the flash drive into a different USB port? It seems that at least some USB controllers treat the USB ports on the back of a computer different from the ones on the front. Go figure.

[dgtlrdnck]

Got a little exicted having something else to try...

But nope, tried all of the USB ports with the same result.
Thanks for the idea, I really want to get this working!

Below is the last few lines from the boot, in case that helps..


Loading USB Driver Modules...
usb.c: registering new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registering new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 10:58:54 Jun 17 2005
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: No IRQknown for interrupt pin A of device 00:1d.0 - using IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbf80, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB registered, assigned bus number 1

And that's where she stops.

Thanks Again!

[donde]

I don't know what brand flash drive you are using. Some do not like Linux. I've had great success with a 128 MB Memorex Flash Drive Model 501B. In fact, I'm going to a 256 MB version so I have more room.