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Always makes sense to rule out variables and not to assume. OS has been Linux Kernel based since 1999. I use "dd bs=8192 if=Live.iso of=/dev/USBDrive ; sync" most of time. Most meaning sometimes use a "bs=4096" if the information or math of ISO image size says/suggests so. The sync is important as there is often lots of image still buffered in Kernel. Often takes a few minutes after dd completes for sync to ensure buffers related to dd are written to the USBDrive (i.e. /dev/sdb). In this instance Debian 9.9.0 LiveCD (LXDE) was used via laptop that has had the ongoing LiveCD boot issues of Debian 9.x I have played the bugs against each other to be able to boot from the laptop. John L. Males Toronto, Ontario Canada 20 June 2019 20:48 ================================================================ 2019-06-21 00:35:14.156350816+0000-UTC Time: 1561077314.159613415 21 Jun 00:35:14 ntpdate[4535]: ntpdate 4.2.8p10@1.3728-o Sun Feb 25 21:22:56 UTC 2018 (1) 21 Jun 00:35:28 ntpdate[4541]: step time server 206.108.0.131 offset -0.006477 sec Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 (2019-04-12) Modified Debian GNU/Linux 9.9 (stretch) (Alternative to Debian determined, work in progress) cat /proc/cpuinfo (Selected): model name : AMD E-350 Processor vmstat -s: 16026156 K total memory 3770552 K used memory 9750176 K active memory 5203816 K inactive memory 541176 K free memory 292240 K buffer memory 11422188 K swap cache 0 K total swap 0 K used swap 0 K free swap 141947756 non-nice user cpu ticks 53380973 nice user cpu ticks 157137363 system cpu ticks 380106848 idle cpu ticks 2466874 IO-wait cpu ticks 0 IRQ cpu ticks 3458008 softirq cpu ticks 0 stolen cpu ticks 289204170 pages paged in 32476380 pages paged out 0 pages swapped in 0 pages swapped out 2109821021 interrupts 2325654452 CPU context switches 1557283473 boot time 371641245 forks /proc/vmstat (Selected): pgpgin 289204170 pgpgout 32476380 pswpin 0 pswpout 0 pgfree 46141268903 pgfault 77571991655 pgmajfault 904109 /proc/meminfo (Selected): Mlocked: 144 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocChunk: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 vmstat --partition /dev/sda8 (Swap): partition was not found sar -b: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 (debian) 06/21/2019 _x86_64_ (2 CPU) 12:00:01 AM pgpgin/s pgpgout/s fault/s majflt/s pgfree/s pgscank/s pgscand/s pgsteal/s %vmeff 12:15:01 AM 0.00 0.00 21707.77 0.00 11651.89 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 12:25:01 AM 0.00 0.00 22399.86 0.00 12227.66 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 12:35:01 AM 0.00 0.00 21827.15 0.00 11505.48 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Average: 0.00 0.00 22141.90 0.00 11927.47 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 ps -A: %CPU START TIME C CLS COMMAND TIME NI PID POL PRI SZ RSS VSZ SIZE MAJFL MINFL SCH STAT TIME WCHAN 0.0 May 8 51:09 0 TS kswapd0 00:51:09 0 35 TS 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 S 00:51:09 - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQQxRId2q5JPHFiozTr5X9dS0HpoEAUCXQwpTQAKCRD5X9dS0Hpo ECGZAKDQRnJDWEVBzCY/L2BfJEw4qj3skgCfcDdY0NyLIIjHZJCdRlTO0AqnXX0= =K+eH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----