USB booting :: preparing dsl on usb, but no usb stick recognized

Hi @ all. Discovered DSL a few days ago. It's a great distro. Lean and sexy. The perfect system to boot my computer at work. Unfortunately the hd is secured by SafeGuard Easy...

So I try to install DSL on my usb stick with the help of this How To.

Problem:
Failing at 2.4. The system doesn't recognize my usb stick. I plug it in and cdrecord --scanbus only shows the cd-drive although all modules (mentioned in 2.3) are loaded.

dmesg says (after plug in):

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scsi singledevice 2 0 0 1
scsi singledevice 2 0 0 2
scsi singledevice 2 0 0 3
scsi singledevice 2 0 0 4
scsi singledevice 2 0 0 5
scsi singledevice 2 0 0 6
VFS:Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,1)
VFS:Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,1)
Unable to identifyy CD-Rom format
sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ide0(3,1)
FAT: bogus logical sector size 42652
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on device 03:01
VFS: Can't find a valid HFX filesystem on device 03:01
usb.c: USB disconnected on device 00:1d.7-2 address 3
usb.c: new USB device 00:1d.7-2, assigned address 4
usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x126f/0x2168) is not claimed by any active driver

Anyone's got a glue?

Sounds like your USB stick is not being recoginized as a USB Mass Storage Device.

Try going to:

http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/

and see if someone has gotten your model of USB stick to work with Linux

Strange.
Got no problems to mount my usb stick with other distros. Or do I get anything wrong?

Got a twinmos usb stick. And yes, it's listet on the recommended site (id: 0x126f:0x2168). It should work.

Formated the stick with ext3. Exactly the same result, even

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VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,1).

in dmesg.

lsmod:

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usb-uhci 21664 0 (unused)
usbcore 57600 1 [ehci-hcd hid usb-storage usb-uhci]

Now I went back to fat16.
Plugged in the stick before I booted from CD. Then I "insmoded" ehci-hcd.

Now I get following dmesg (also with some boot messages):

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sda: read capacity failed.
sda: status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
current sd00:00: sns = 70 2
asc=3a ascq=0
sda: block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB
sda: test wp failed, assume write enabled
sda: i/o error: dev 08:00, sector 0
i/o error: dev 08:00, sector 0
unable to read partition table
device busy for revalidation (usage=1)
device 08:00 not ready
i/o error: dev 08:00, sector 0
EFS: cannot read volume header
....something about ap.....
pci: setting latency timer of device 00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: intel corp. 82801db usb2
ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: irq 10, pci mem e0d85000
usb.c: new usb bus registered, assigned bus number 4
ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: enabled 64bit pci dma
pci: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: usb 2.0 enabled, ehci 1.00, driver 2003-dec-29/2.4
usb.c: usb disconnect on device 00:1d.0-2 address 2
hub.c: usb hub found
hub.c: 6 ports detected
hub.c: new usb device 00:1d.7-2, assigned address 2
warning: usb mass storage data integrity not assured
usb mass storage device found at 2
usb.c: deregistering driver usb-storage

Still getting:

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mount: /dev/sda is not a valid block device

when I mount sda (sda entry in fstab exists).
And cdrecord --scanbus gets me the same output than before.

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