Hello guys!

I need your help to get out of my endless nights wondering what to do...

I have 2 computers at home, one in my room, and the other one is a laptop. I wish to use both of them as webservers, and using them alternatively (the laptop for the night, the desktop for the day cause I need my laptop to work in my lab).

So I came with the Idea to use my USB harddisk (120gb) as a "removable bootable server". I decided to customize the latest knoppix (3.7), as I need the kernel modules 'madwifi' needed for the wireless card of my laptop. I started checking in the how-to if there was a mean to adapt knoppix for usb-boot instead of cdrom-boot. I read this page: http://rz-obrian.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de...oppix-usb.html

Has it refers to an old knoppix distribution, I tried to adapt this method for my USB-HDD. I followed its instruction, then when I get to the syslinux execution in the MBR of my usb hard-disk, I checked the manpages to see if the isolinux.cfg could simply be renamed syslinux.cfg. I renamed it this way, then unmounted the /dev/sdb1 partition, and executed "syslinux /dev/sdb1" (the modified linuxrc refers to /dev/sda1, and not /dev/sdb1, do you think this can play a role? I'm new to syslinux and that kind of things... I did only modified grub files in my past experiences).

Then, when I boot my computer, with ide-hd boot desactivated to be sure to boot on usb, and with usb boot activated, I first get a line telling me "Booting from USB HD ... OK" before getting an endless sequence of 99 99 99 99 ... kind of stuff you get when there's an boot sequence mistake somewhere.

My questions are simple: I cannot find in my brain or in google what the 99 sequence refers to. Second: Do you see a way to solve my problems?

Thx for reading me.

Fabrice

PS: I haven't customized the knoppix to become my server yet, I first want to be sure this is possible, so I want to check the usb-bootable customization.
PS2: I speak french better than english, so please avoid abreviations when you answer me.