USB booting :: panic on usb boot&dead rodent on boot in linux
after using a boot cd to install to my sandisk cruiser 512, when I would boot I would get a kernel panic exactly as described elsewhere in this forum. I think I'm onto this but wont be able to test it again till I get home (laptop at work wont boot from usb, ast least not that I've been able to figure out yet). I think its due to an incorrect partition type. When the KNOPPIX dir is copied over it changes to lower case.
What Im having now is that when I run DSL from inside linux the mouse is stuck on the bottom line. I dealt with this in the past and had found a page that advised a variable to set in linux before loading DSL but I cant find that page to save my life now. Anyone recall what I'm refering to? I had had the export... line for this edited into my dsl-linux.sh file and it worked fine.
Jackpot!! There it is...
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-04/msg00208.html
add
export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0
at the top of your dsl-linux.sh file. 
original here.