USB booting :: installed to usb stick, error on booting

i see a lot of people mentioning which stick brand name and model they're using. should this matter? well if it does, i'm using a 2GB cruzer micro. brand new.
seems to install fine using the usb hdd option from the tool. i've included a screenshot of the process.
so when i boot it up, it says 'Disk error' or something very similar. i'm trying this on two pc's at work.
last night at home, i did the same thing, only i got a
'Can't find kernel
boot:'
... or something very similar.
any ideas as to what might be the problem?

actually, when i tried at home last night, i did't set any boot paramaters.

eh bit confused here.

You do or you dont get a Boot screen that looks like the live cd?
Is it:
1) IE it come up you press enter to boot and it errs out to a "limited shell"
2) you never see the boot screen?

never see the boot screen.
if you were using windows, the first hint of windows being loaded (i think it's Loading Windows).. this is were it gets stuck.
like i said, it's just 'Disk error' or something very similar.

i think it has to do with the geometry on the usb stick. never heard of that til now. it might explain the following line on that image up there:
/dev/sda1: Cluster sizes larger than 16k not supported

guess this means the whole installation wasn't successful.

Next Page...
original here.