So I've got DSL and I'm trying to boot it from my usb stick. I'm pretty experienced with grub, so I'm confused by whats happening. It's not even seeing the kernel and initrd files that I'm specifying. No error message, it just tells me that the file cannot be found, and then when I press any key it sends me back to the grub menu. I'm definitely specifying the directory properly, so it's a weird error.

Here's what I have:

on the usb stick:

/slax
/kernels
/BT3
/DSL
/grub

inside of /kernels:

/BT3boot
/slaxboot
/DSLboot

Menu.lst:

I was a little confused about which DSL to download, I downloaded the dsl-4.4.10-embedded.zip file, and moved the kernel files to /kernels/DSLboot/ and left everything else in /DSL. I've also tried leaving everything in /DSL and booting from there but that didn't work either, same error. I have no idea what else to try, it's a pretty weird error. Can anyone tell me if I downloaded the wrong version or something, thats about all I can think of.

EDIT**
Fixed the entries in menu.lst

I might be mistaken here, but...

In your /kernels folder, you have /DSLboot listed, but in your menu.lst code, you list /kernels/DSL/linux..... So, the file (directory) names don't match.

I was in the process of moving things around when I decided to post, normally I call it DSLboot though, a mismatch isn't the case unfortunately

sorry for bumping but this has to be an easy fix. I'm really not a complete nub here I set up grub to boot slax and backtrack, I just can't seem to get it right with DSL.

I find it very odd that I'm getting a file not found error too. I'm positive I have the directory set straight. DSL is booted a little differently but according to syslinux.cfg the kernel seems to be linux24 and the initrd seems to be minirt24, right?

Dig, yep...do you have "show hidden files" enabled and make sure no backup files are corrupting anything? ( menu.lst~ )

Sometimes I've found the dsl kernel/initrd must be in the root of the USB.