I too have had blinking-cursor-hang;PloP boot manager will often, but not
always succeed in mounting/loading a usb. I suspect that the main problem
with the usb stick is that it often contains
an HPA partition. If the usb truly behaved as a hard drive, you could
eliminate the HPA. When using 'hdparm' or 'setmax' to remove the HPA/DCO,
you get a message:
"bad or missing sense data", and there are no explicit numbers for hidden
vs visible sectors.
Any attempt to force the issue ends in failure; I suspect that the
built in software(some of it malware) on many flash drives is actually mask
programmed onto the flash drive, and
cannot be removed.
Not long ago, I had purchased five 4GB flash drives with none of that
garbage on them, and they always boot properly; ironically, they cost half
as much as the junk with "features" built-in.
BTW, have found the exact same situation on a 16GB sd card.
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