Thank you, Kyle. Indeed, the boot order behavior of Dell Machines like mine is somewhat unpredictable. My machine was set to boot the USB stick first, but it usually booted to the hard drive when I rebooted from a USB stick. I had to first halt the machine completely, then turn it on again so that it would boot into the stick again. In any case, this is the first time it has refused to boot into the stick automatically, forcing me to press F11 and select it manually. Cheers, Cleverson Em 20/10/2012 15:17, Kyle escreveu: > I was able to boot that specific image on a couple of different USB > devices and two different machines with no issues. Your problem seems to > be related to bios and/or boot order. If you have a way to select your > boot device, either by pressing the escape key or a function key (mine > is f8), try to select it from the boot menu. Note that the boot menu > doesn't speak or beep, so it can be a bit tricky to know that you're > there and which device you have selected. Trial and error is probably > your best bet in this situation. If nothing works, you may need to burn > the image to a CD. > ~Kyle > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup