Well, I somehow got it formatted. (swap + ext3)
I installed, rebooted and...nothing. Seems it doesn't like booting off it now.

Has anyone else had \ heard of issues with Transcend and linux\knoppix?

EDIT: ok, so after installing to an old IDE hd, i find that it wont boot either.
BIOS is setup fine, did I miss something while installing \ booting? a bootable partition, or something?
(GRUB installed to root partition, not mbr, does that make a difference?)