> > > 1) On initial boot (with 7.1 release, on a usb stick) it more or less > > > immediately panicked into ddb when I tried to pipe dmesg into a file on > > > the usb stick. I took out the NVMe-card, and whether or not that was the > > > problem the machine anyhow behaved better long enough for me to get > > > network and do a fw_update. > > > > sure sounds like it could be a bad USB stick. > > Very common. For important things, I have learned to write zeros over > > the entire USB stick before expecting it to actually work. Nothing to > > do with the T5500.
I am puzzled: how exactly is a zero filled USB stick less panicky than another USB stick?
