i have no idea which filesystem i use on the stick. how do i find out? what do u mean by "dmesg"? i typed that in the console after putting in the stick... and its a very long output. here it comes: " [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.24-19-generic (buildd@terranova) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:56:21 UTC 2008 (Ubuntu 2.6.24-19.41-generic) [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003f4fe000 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003f4fe000 - 000000003f509000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003f509000 - 000000003f552000 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003f552000 - 000000003f555000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003f555000 - 000000003f5bb000 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003f5bb000 - 000000003f5bf000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003f5bf000 - 000000003f672000 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003f672000 - 000000003f6bf000 (ACPI NVS) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003f6bf000 - 000000003f700000 (ACPI data) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003f700000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fed14000 - 00000000fed1a000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000fed20000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] 118MB HIGHMEM available. [ 0.000000] 896MB LOWMEM available. [ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at 000fe1b0 [ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 259698) 0 entries of 256 used [ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges: [ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096 [ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 229376 [ 0.000000] HighMem 229376 -> 259698 [ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node [ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges [ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 259698 [ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 259698 [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31 [ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 236 pages used for memmap [ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 30086 pages, LIFO batch:7 [ 0.000000] Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap [ 0.000000] DMI 2.4 present. [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xC00FE020 checksum 0 [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000FE020, 0024 (r2 ACRSYS) [ 0.000000] ACPI: XSDT 3F6FE120, 0064 (r1 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 1 1000013) [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 3F6FD000, 00F4 (r4 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 1 MSFT 1000013) [ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 3F6F4000, 8905 (r1 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 1 MSFT 1000013) [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 3F675000, 0040 [ 0.000000] ACPI: APIC 3F6F3000, 0068 (r2 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 1 MSFT 1000013) [ 0.000000] ACPI: MCFG 3F6F2000, 003C (r1 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 1 MSFT 1000013) [ 0.000000] ACPI: SLIC 3F6F1000, 0176 (r1 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 1 MSFT 1000013) [ 0.000000] ACPI: HPET 3F6F0000, 0038 (r1 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 1 MSFT 1000013) [ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 3F6EF000, 05D7 (r1 PmRef Cpu0Cst 3001 INTL 20051117) [ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 3F6EE000, 04C4 (r1 PmRef CpuPm 3000 INTL 20051117) [ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 3F6ED000, 0232 (r1 PmRef Cpu0Tst 3000 INTL 20051117) [ 0.000000] ACPI: DMI detected: Acer [ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408 [ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) [ 0.000000] Processor #0 7:6 APIC version 20 [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x00] disabled) [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1]) [ 0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) [ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 [ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) [ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) [ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. [ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. [ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. [ 0.000000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs [ 0.000000] ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a201 base: 0xfed00000 [ 0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information [ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:a0000000) [ 0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 [ 0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000e0000 [ 0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 257670 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=24395c55-1405-4a39-b4c5-50409d028f99 ro quiet splash [ 0.000000] mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000) [ 0.000000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffa000 (fec00000) [ 0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. [ 0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. [ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0 [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) [ 0.000000] Detected 1995.072 MHz processor. [ 30.483595] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 [ 30.483598] console [tty0] enabled [ 30.483909] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [ 30.484175] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) [ 30.503800] Memory: 1017204k/1038792k available (2177k kernel code, 20808k reserved, 1006k data, 368k init, 121216k highmem) [ 30.503806] virtual kernel memory layout: [ 30.503807] fixmap : 0xfff4b000 - 0xfffff000 ( 720 kB) [ 30.503808] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB) [ 30.503808] vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 111 MB) [ 30.503809] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000 ( 896 MB) [ 30.503810] .init : 0xc0421000 - 0xc047d000 ( 368 kB) [ 30.503811] .data : 0xc03204c4 - 0xc041bdc4 (1006 kB) [ 30.503812] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc03204c4 (2177 kB) [ 30.503814] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. [ 30.503850] SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 [ 30.503983] hpet clockevent registered [ 30.583945] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3994.59 BogoMIPS (lpj=7989196) [ 30.583966] Security Framework initialized [ 30.583972] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [ 30.583985] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized [ 30.583989] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module. [ 30.583995] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [ 30.584113] Initializing cgroup subsys ns [ 30.584118] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct [ 30.584128] CPU: After generic identify, caps: afebfbff 20000000 00000000 00000000 0000e31d 00000000 00000001 00000000 [ 30.584134] monitor/mwait feature present. [ 30.584135] using mwait in idle threads. [ 30.584140] CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K [ 30.584141] CPU: L2 cache: 1024K [ 30.584144] CPU: After all inits, caps: afebfbff 20000000 00000000 00003940 0000e31d 00000000 00000001 00000000 [ 30.584153] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000. [ 30.584166] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. [ 30.600304] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code [ 30.601719] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed [ 30.601808] Early unpacking initramfs... done [ 30.912737] ACPI: Core revision 20070126 [ 30.912786] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found. [ 30.962336] CPU0: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 550 @ 2.00GHz stepping 01 [ 30.962358] Total of 1 processors activated (3994.59 BogoMIPS). [ 30.962551] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs [ 30.962739] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 [ 31.107689] Brought up 1 CPUs [ 31.107709] CPU0 attaching sched-domain: [ 31.107711] domain 0: span 01 [ 31.107713] groups: 01 [ 31.107842] net_namespace: 64 bytes [ 31.107850] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware [ 31.108246] Time: 17:04:51 Date: 09/30/08 [ 31.108265] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [ 31.108419] EISA bus registered [ 31.108424] ACPI: bus type pci registered [ 31.108635] PCI: Using configuration type 1 [ 31.108645] Setting up standard PCI resources [ 31.110244] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT [ 31.112611] ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored via DMI [ 31.112613] ACPI: If "acpi_osi=Linux" works better, please notify