Further to my last message addressing your response to some people I was referring to your response to Craig ("Bullshit Craig!") on yet another thread you've started on this topic ("kernel panic" becomes "changing initrd") despite people pointing out to you both on list and off list why you should not do this. Compound that with the number of threads on your dd attempts and it makes it very cumbersome for someone to aggregate all that together in order to get the full picture of what you've done and not done to date in working through your issue - hence difficult to give informed advice and leads to the same questions being asked again (frustrating for all involved). Jacques B.