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...would suggest changing the order of the BIOS' "boot priority" settings. According to your feedback, we'll see how to move forward. The image is already available for download, and will remain available for the next 7 days. NAME: test.img.gz SIZE: 1'435'616 bytes MD5 : 07A4FFC69CA51CA24D43F793E9FE8529 SHA1: 4845AB7D15994DA3EAD05DF39BDA8C4E96304328 Download (because of the email formatting, you might see the code distributed in more than one line): http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id=g11bb56c955445d469994445242cd49ee fb24db36f Please let us know how it goes. Regards, Ady.

> After that, if anyone wants to produce a test image that I can simply > download and directly dd to a USB stick, then I will be happy to test > that too. To be honest, the last instructions I posted were simpler and shorter than the rest of the tests, and even shorter than writing the emails :). Anyway, if you are sincerely willing to dd an image, I am willing to prepare and upload

...can bet that I *will* avoid using any such tools! (That's part of why I was so insistant on getting images that I could just dd to the USB stick(s)... far less chance for me to mess up the process somehow, you know, on my end.) >NAME: test.img.gz >SIZE: 1'435'616 bytes >MD5 : 07A4FFC69CA51CA24D43F793E9FE8529 >SHA1: 4845AB7D15994DA3EAD05DF39BDA8C4E96304328 Hope you don't mind too much. I actually didn't bother to check the checksums. Anyway, I did fetch the file, unzipped it, and then dd'd "test.img" to _both_ my 4GB Transcend _and_ also to my 8GB Patriot. (I used bs=1m. I...