On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Michael Prokop wrote:

>
> Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> added the comment:
>
> Hi Charles,
>
>> I normally use mkfs.vfat but used 1 & 2 below from
>> earlier attemt to get usb directly bootable.
>
> Ah ok. Can you please retry with ext3 filesystem?
>
>> Is their a debug=? option that would save the detailed
>> logs on successful boot?
>
> If you're booting with the debug boot option (being debug=vc or debug=1) then
> the logs should be available as /var/log/live.log or so after booting finished.

attached log I had only been looking in /tmp.
>
> By the way, don't worry about the screen capture for now, because the
> issue seems to be related to the vfat file system according to your logs.
> Let's see whether it works for you with ext3 (because it does for me).
>

system boots all the way up but doesn't seem to have uncomtressed cpio.gz 
and has left the two files from usb in / at shutdown (i believe) it wrote 
uncompressed folders to usb
> Thanks,
> regards,
> -mika-
>
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