USB boots to blank screen, nothing happens

[tpackrat]

I've got an Apacer HandySteno (HN212) 2G USB flash drive. I'd love to have Puppy Linux on it so that I could have a complete OS in my pocket along with all my other data and software.

I go through the USB install steps from the Chubby Puppy Live CD, and it appears to work correctly. But when I attempt to boot from the USB drive, I just get a blank screen with a blinking underscore _ Nothing else happens, and it doesn't respond to any keystrokes.

I've tried this on serveral different computers, all with the same result. And I know this drive is bootable, as I'd installed DOS on it and gotten that to boot successfully.

The drive is formatted with FAT32, if that makes any difference.

[Havoc3D]

i'm having the same issue...would appreciate some info on this.

[Guest]

Same problem here. What partion type number 06 or 13?
The syslinux is buggy. It unmounts the drive, then makes it bootable?!
Where can I find a ggod syslinux?

[tpackrat]

I ended up downloading the latest version of syslinux from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/. That seemed to do the trick.