It might be the USB stick or your USB port, certain ports don't allow booting. Also, does your USB stick have a lock? If it does, switch it off.

If you are booting in VMWare, change the way it connects to the internet to NAT.

Sorry, his name is si13nt. Here is his tutorial:


hxxp://forums.remote-exploit.org/showthread.php?t=10269

I followed s1lents tutorial, i was reading around and saw that when i entered the command:


mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1

I wasn't supposed to?

Also where it says

Create a new partition. Try using Acronis Disk Director Suite if your on windows.