I tried booting the USB-stick on my Acer Aspire 1 netbook and the installer decided the USB-stick was what it was looking for; i.e., no problem finding the CRUX media and getting to the root prompt. Back on the Gigabyte desktop, it appears CRUX mdev creates /dev/sdh{,1,2} but any examination thereof is not reported. This is what Debian Sid logged in /var/log/kern.log when the USB-stick was plugged in: [ 76.296026] usb 3-2: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci [ 76.439490] usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=13fe, idProduct=1e23 [ 76.439676] usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 76.439849] usb 3-2: Product: STORE N GO [ 76.440029] usb 3-2: Manufacturer: Verbatim [ 76.440250] usb 3-2: SerialNumber: 07951A09609608D5 [ 76.440915] usb-storage 3-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [ 76.441205] scsi11 : usb-storage 3-2:1.0 [ 77.485134] scsi 11:0:0:0: Direct-Access Verbatim STORE N GO 5.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS [ 77.485618] sd 11:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg8 type 0 [ 77.814504] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdh] 31272960 512-byte logical blocks: (16.0 GB/14.9 GiB) [ 77.815245] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdh] Write Protect is off [ 77.815403] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdh] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 [ 77.815998] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdh] No Caching mode page found [ 77.816163] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdh] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 77.863517] sdh: sdh1 sdh2 [ 77.866373] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdh] Attached SCSI removable disk Below are lsusb and lspci -k command outputs, first in the recovery shell, then according to Debian Sid: CRUX (typed from display): Bus 002 Device 002: ID 13fe:1e23 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 058f:6362 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Bus 010 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:2e20 00:01.0 Class 0604: 8086:2e21 pcieport 00:06.0 Class 0604: 8086:2e29 pcieport 00:1a.0 Class 0c03: 8086:3a37 uhci_hcd 00:1a.1 Class 0c03: 8086:3a38 uhci_hcd 00:1a.2 Class 0c03: 8086:3a39 uhci_hcd 00:1a.7 Class 0c03: 8086:3a3c ehci-pci 00:1c.0 Class 0604: 8086:3a40 pcieport 00:1c.3 Class 0604: 8086:3a46 pcieport 00:1c.4 Class 0604: 8086:3a48 pcieport 00:1d.0 Class 0c03: 8086:3a34 uhci_hcd 00:1d.1 Class 0c03: 8086:3a35 uhci_hcd 00:1d.2 Class 0c03: 8086:3a36 uhci_hcd 00:1d.7 Class 0c03: 8086:3a3a ehci-pci 00:1e.0 Class 0604: 8086:244e 00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:3a16 00:1f.2 Class 0106: 8086:3a22 ahci 00:1f.3 Class 0c05: 8086:3a30 01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:0141 02:00.0 Class 0c03: 1033:0194 xhci_hcd 04:00.0 Class 0106: 197b:2363 ahci 04:00.1 Class 0101: 197b:2363 pata_jmicron 05:00.0 Class 0200: 10ec:8168 06:00.0 Class 0401: 1120:0004 06:00.1 Class 0980: 1120:7003 06:00.2 Class 0c00: 1120:4001 firewire_ohci Sid: Bus 003 Device 002: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp. Flash Card Reader/Writer Bus 003 Device 003: ID 13fe:1e23 Kingston Technology Company Inc. Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 010 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (re v 03) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-EP45-DS5/GA-EG45M-DS2H Motherboard 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Motherboard Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Motherboard Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1a.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Motherboard Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Motherboard Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 1 Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 4 Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 5 Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-EP45-DS5 Motherboard Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-EP45-DS5 Motherboard Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-EP45-DS5 Motherboard Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-EP45-DS5 Motherboard Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-EP45-DS5 Motherboard Kernel driver in use: lpc_ich 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-EP45-DS5/GA-EG45M-DS2H Motherboard Kernel driver in use: ahci 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-EP45-DS5/GA-EG45M-DS2H Motherboard Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600] (rev a2) Subsystem: Device 196e:021f Kernel driver in use: nouveau 02:00.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device 5007 Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd 04:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB363 SATA/IDE Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Motherboard Kernel driver in use: ahci 04:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB363 SATA/IDE Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Motherboard Kernel driver in use: pata_jmicron 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Motherboard Kernel driver in use: r8169 06:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04) Subsystem: Creative Labs SB Audigy 2 ZS (SB0350) Kernel driver in use: snd_emu10k1 06:00.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 04) Subsystem: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port Kernel driver in use: Emu10k1_gameport 06:00.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04) Subsystem: Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig______________________________________________ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________