On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Frederic Muller fred@cm17.com wrote:
On a sidenote livecd-to-disk didn't work as the MBA didn't see the stick. dd however did work and booted.
Those seem contradictory. The stick is a block device. In order for dd to use it, it had to show up the same as for livecd-iso-to-disk.
Gparted however saw a 16GB stick instead of 4GB.
Sounds suspiciously like counterfeit flash.