I updated my usb stick to the filesystem: http://casper.berkeley.edu/svn/trunk/roach/sw/binaries/filesystem/filesystem_etch_2009-11-30.tar.bz
when I 'run usbboot' I get to: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 15794175 512-byte hardware sectors (8087 MB) sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 15794175 512-byte hardware sectors (8087 MB) sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk EXT2-fs warning (device sda1): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k init Warning: unable to open an initial console. warning: `ntpd' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use) and then the boot process freezes. I've repartitioned and rebuilt the filesystem as ext3 and then simply copied (cp -rp) over the files as i've done on other working usb sticks. Any suggestions? Thanks, Mark