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...that the message originated from the boot sector. In an attempt to prevent GRUB clearing screen in case other messages might be shown I removed the hard disk. With the hard disk removed the system boots from the USB stick. I tried changing the boot order in the Phoenix BIOS on the Sony Vaio VGN-FE41Z but couldn't find any permutation that would work when the hard disk is attached. This makes me wonder if the drive number passed by the BIOS to the MBR is wrong, meaning syslinux ends up requesting the file-system boot sector from the wrong device, or that the correct number is provided initi...