If you want only 1 partition (usb-hdd) then you could trying changing your drive geometry. Try searching for 'geometry' in these forums.Yay! It worked ... I made the mp3player bootable with the HP utility, then removed the *.iso files and vmlinuz, copied the DSL files from CD and edited the HP syslinux file:
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#hpdkbu default flash prompt 1 timeout 30 say Hawk2`s way of DSL booting ;) label flash kernel linux24 append ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
Now I can listen to music on mp3player and boot DSL from it
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