> If the problem is only to me, I am disliked by 9pccpu kernel. I don't see anything particularly wrong in your setup. Your kernel is recent enough and should work. Personally, I haven't encountered this problem.
I would tend to think that USB is not properly supported on your machine. Does usb/disk see your usb disk when you boot from another media (pxe, cd, ata...)? Have you tried on another machine? -- David du Colombier