Quote Originally Posted by zoltanthegypsy
Intesting. I just did this too. Remastered KNOPPIX to shrink it a bit and added chntpw and captive-ntfs and my own KDE menus, boot splashes, and artwork and put it on a 1G fob booted w/grub. Pretty slick.

I haven't tried it on a system w/scsi drives, but I'm a little surprised it wouldn't boot for you. Did you still have the device.map file in /boot/grub? If so I wonder if that's what is confusing things.
I didn't use GRUB. For something standalone like a USB key, SYSLINUX seems like a better choice, since it doesn't require a device map at all. SYSLINUX is entirely self-contained and just "sees" the media it's booting off of, and no others. This is bad for a multibooting desktop machine, but very good for removable/rearrangeable things like USB keys, since there's no more problems with devices appearing in different places on various computers.

As far as remastering goes, I'm waiting until the official release of 5.0. Even though I have the DVD image already, I'm hoping they have a CD-sized image, so I can easily fit it into the USB key.