Grrrr. Pen Drive

I've tried every possibly configuration of my hardware and tried it on different machines and it still get the same error. I have even tried installing from Windows and I have tried getting different initrd.gz files and using them (probably not a very good idea). So its not a hardware issue!

I just want to see this screen (well actually I would like to see other working ones but this screen would be progress)!!!

I have finally given up on my disk and I'll download Ubuntu 7.04 which apparently has the persistence problem fixed. (according to: http://galigio.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/ubuntu-704-a-complete-linux-on-a-usb-pendrive/) I'll then burn to disk and then put it on my usb drive and then hopefully not only will I have a working Ubuntu persistent drive but I will also have the latest and greatest in Ubuntu!