USB Boot flash drive - No Boot device found

[Jack Alexander]

I created a bootable USB flash drive on my Linux server using these commands:
  cd
  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=1
  parted -s -- /dev/sdc mklabel msdos
  parted -s -- /dev/sdc mkpart primary fat32 0 4GB
  parted -s -- /dev/sdc mkfs 1 fat32
  parted -s -- /dev/sdc set 1 boot on
  syslinux /dev/sdc1
  mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt
  cd /mnt
  df -h .
  tar xvzf /kits/packages/Clusterx64_v4.12-3037.generic_usb.tar.gz
  cd
  umount /mnt

Then on my Laptop running Win7/VMWare Workstation 9.0.2, I set my VM to connect to my CD/DVD and set that to load the ISO image plpbt.iso and connected my SanDisk
Firebird USB flash drive.

When I boot the VM, I select USB from the v5.0.14 Plop boot manager menu and I get this:

  Loading EHCI driver
  search on hosts
  host 1
  driver removed
  Loading UHCI driver
  search on hosts
  host 1
  Port 2: device connected
  No HD
  driver removed
  Loading OHCI driver
  search on hosts
  driver removed
  Boot error
  No boot device found, please retry it

I've successfully booted a real server from the USB flash drive with no problems. And I can mount that USB flash drive on another VM and read it with no problems.

What is the boot error I am getting and how can I fix it?

[Jack Alexander]

I found that changing the VMWARE USB Controller setting for USB compatibility from USB 3.0 to USB  2.0 resolved the problem.