Debian Live on a USB memory stick?

[chrislale at untrammelled.co.uk (Chris Lale)]

Marco Amadori wrote:

>Alle 15:22, luned? 10 aprile 2006, Chris Lale ha scritto:
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>>Is it possible to create a bootable Debian Live USB stick?
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>It will be for sure, relevant code should be adder to casper and make-live, 
>then you will be able to do that by simply invoking "makelive usb <flavour>".
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>You need to install grub and find that initramfs could find the loop squashfs 
>image on the stick.
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I cannot get grub to boot from my USB memory stick. This appears to be a 
common problem. However, SYSLINUX works fine. For example, I can boot 
the initial ram disc for the debian installer (see 
http://d-i.pascal.at/) - this method is also now documented in the 
Debian installation manual.

Would SYSLINUX offer an easier solution? After all, the live CD already 
uses ISOLINUX.

Perhaps a simple change to initrd.gz would do the trick? At the moment, 
booting from the ram disc starts OK but fails because it cannot find a 
medium in the CD drive (/dev/hdc). I don't know where to make this 
modification. My USB contains the following Debian-live files:
    casper/*
    initrd.gz
    vmlinuz

Chris.