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Cutting long story short... I've downloaded the latest Scarthgap 6.5.4.2 image and I used EasyDD (from my Easy 5.8.3) to write in on the pendrive. It looked like everything was fine (got the green notice that I may unplug the drive). However when I picked the pendrive from the bootmenu after reboot I only got black screen with a flashing underline symbol. I tried another pendrive, thinking that one might have been faulty, but got the same behaviour. Hence I tried older Easy, Scarthgap 6.5.4, but same thing happened again. I thought I'll try even older version, the one I started my adventure with Easy (I think) - Dunfell 4.5.5 as I know then I've used that EasyDD and it worked (after that I think I only updated every version, so newer used EasyDD since again). Yes, that worked fine...

So my question is - has anything changed in the installation procedure between Dunfell 4.5.5 and Scarthgap 6.5.4 or maybe the EasyDD is different now and I need to get a new one?

I've occasionally had a similar experience, in my case it depends on what computer I am trying to boot the USB drive on. Most often if I encounter this behaviour it is on a desktop and the USB stick works on a laptop. And yes, there is a difference between the early versions and the recent ones. Used to be the system was on the boot drive, in my case sdc1, but with later versions it was on sdc2. I have sometimes encountered error messages on my desktop computer that the O/S can't be found. Also, I have an older laptop on which I have installed Easy to the internal drive. It installs the older versions just fine, but with the later versions I get exactly what you described, just a blinking cursor and it does not boot.