Thanks, but no luck here. The BIOS doesn't even recognize the USB drive as bootable, which seems really weird. I don't think it is a hardware problem, because this is a 1 GB PQI iStick. I can boot Damn Small Linux no problem from a smaller PQI iStick on the same Epia ME6000 motherboard. Other differences; FAT32 filesystem instead of FAT16, and I ran syslinux 2.11 from Knoppix, not Windows. I don't see why either would be problematic.