Daniel Rozo here. Alpha 5 and 6 booted normally with the usb. Here is my lspci for common hardware:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 13)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
08:01.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
08:01.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 01)



> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:57:35 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 350946] Re: Ubuntu 9.04 beta desktop fails to boot from usb-stick
> 
> Might be related to modinit-utils too.
> 
> -- 
> Ubuntu 9.04 beta desktop fails to boot from usb-stick
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/350946
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
> 
> Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in linux in Ubuntu Jaunty: Triaged
> 
> Bug description:
> There were no problems to boot ubuntu 9.04 alpha 6 64-bit desktop from usb stick for me, but the beta fails (both 32-bit and 64-bit).
> 
> At first everything seems to be normal, till the boot splash appears. Than there are multiple HDD actions (on my internal HDD, not on the USB-stick).
> 
> Using alt + F1 I get the following error message:
> 
> modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/modules.dep: No such file or directory
> 
> After waiting some time (about one or two minutes) without any changes I come to a console. The file mentioned in the error message is  available from that console.
> 
> Thanks for trying to solve that issue.
> 
> What other information I can provide you with?

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