Scenario: You've been messing about with the Aspire One (in my case, the Linpus A110l) and you've screwed it up to the extent that you can't get it to do anything. So, you reach for your USB DVD to run a restore and you can't find it.
What next? You bung the DVD in your PC and either a) boot directly from it, or b) mount it in a clean VM (virtual machine) and boot that way.
So far so good, you get the option to create a USB boot stick - happy days. Until it comes up with a "Error 39! report to support@linpus.com" message. This may or may not have goosed one of your PCs disks, if you booted directly. Not good.
A bit of playing around with a VM showed that the problem only appeared when there was a SCSI controller/disk attached to the system. Extending this further, and trying on a bare-bones PC chassis i had showed the same thing happened in the physical world. The worst bit - this included the onboard SATA RAID controller I enabled.
So, a lesson - never try to boot your PC from the Aspire restore disk - if you're not 100% certain that you haven't got anything it might disagree with. VMs are the way to go.
