Hi, just a guess, since you've mentioned `dd` - did you do > # wipefs -a /dev/sdX where X is the USB stick? Distro ISOs always left the USB sticks in an unusable state until I execute the above. On 21.12.2017 09:27, news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Le 2017-12-20 15:45, David Rosenstrauch a écrit : >> On 2017-12-20 3:00 am, David C. Rankin wrote: >>> I have struggled with this issue and Arch for a year. The problem is >>> grub2 on >>> Arch fails to write anything to bytes 0x04 - 0x63 of the mbr, while >>> other >>> distros don't seem to have that problem. >> >> >> More of a workaround than a solution, but I stopped using grub >> altogether once they upgraded to grub2. (The complexity of the grub2 >> config file as compared to the simplicity of the grub-legacy menu.lst >> file is what eventually turned me away.) I've started using syslinux >> in recent years, and have been quite happy with it. >> >> HTH, >> >> DR > > Hello everyone, > > I have good news ... sort of. After a full reset (OS+BIOS) here is the > result : > [1] Archlinux : not able to boot. > [2] Obarun : not able to boot. Yet this distro uses syslinux, not grub... > [3] OpenSuze : not able to boot. David : maybe a difference between Leap > 42.2 and 42.3 ? > [4] Debian : not able to boot. I tried Debian and Subgraph. > [5] Ubuntu : booting and functionnal (as functionnal as Ubuntu can be). > > I'll install Ubuntu and see what I can install from there. Archlinux > with syslinux I guess. Note : all these USB stick were made with dd. > Even Ubuntu was unable to boot with an Easy2Boot stick with imgPTN image > and so one. > > Tom -- Regards, Oleksii Vilchanskyi PGP:0x8D3A0E046BDE941F2A53867CE3FD952D48C0B338
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