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Do you have all you need to boot into the kernel (not as modules)? USB drivers? Drivers for your main filesystem? Do you use kernel you compiled yourself or kernel that came with your distro?
I think so - I'm using the kernel that came from RH - I didn't recompile it myself. The kernel recognizes my USB floppy and/or my USB CDRW when I login.
The system bios is supposed to allow me to boot from the USB floppy without any needed drivers.
I guess you use ext3 filesystem. Look if your kernel uses initrd (ramdisk) to start (as far as I remember, it does).If it does, you need to make the same with the boot floppy (--mkinitargs switch for mkbootdisk).
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