unfortunately it doesn’t. And i have no clue why the downloaded file is shown as an archive instead of a binary file.
That the filesize differs significantly (i guess it was 6mb instead of 11mb) is not relevant, right?
Yes I did try. Thank you for your suggestion. Still no luck. I think the problem has been narrowed down to the x131 having an advanced format drive. Any options that you know of to get around this?
[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 23051, member: 7271”]Try changing the image type to multi-part non-resizable.
The reason it’s not working for you, is resizable is expecting only two partitions. The first partition it creates/searches for is the 100MB partition naturally created on a fully fresh install.[/quote]
I believe you will have better luck trying to contact Matthew Hood thru conversation. He hasn’t been seen in quite a while, but usually a direct conversation will send an email to the person at least letting them know somebody is trying to communicate with them.
OK got it. Will give it a try today or tomorrow and see what happens. Need to do some scanning on some systems for this damn bug. Thanks for the help. I’ll be back…
Thanks Tom, You have been a big help. I actually understand more about the boot process now. I added the missing firmware file to lib/firmware/bnx2/… in the init.gz but it still didn’t work.
It does not appear that these desktops have UEFI capable BIOS, I searched pretty thoroughly through the BIOS options and came up empty. No worries though, I’m having them swapped for a couple of identical units. I was able to image two of the four successfully so I’m just going to chalk this up as bad luck for now.