something is seriously wrong with your image or your usb key.
suggest to download again.
I think my keys are fine, tried 3, of two different brands, and tried burning the img several times. Also, the was no problem with 0.4.
I'll download again from a different source and report once I try.
there is no difference in boot between "0.4" and "0.5". There is very little difference in anything between the last 0.4 fix and the first 0.5 image.
the numbering sequence change was simply an arbitrary decision designed to try and make a clean start with documentation and other administrative things.
from a code perspective, "version 0.4" and "version 0.5" means basically nothing, I just decided instead of doing fix #37 for "0.4" we would call it 0.5 fix 1.
I had the exact same problem - machine running fine on 0.4, refused to boot 0.5 for love or money. I eventually just wrote the image directly onto the otherwise-unused HDD in the machine and it boots off that. It's an old ASUS board, and one of the many reasons I don't buy ASUS boards anymore.
If you're not familiar with Linux/Unix this can be a bit tricky. Burn something like SystemRescueCD and boot off that, then plug in your flashed USB drive. You need to determine your flashdrive and HDD devices. Run
ls -l /dev/disk/by-id This output shows the identifiers of your storage hardware and what devices they link to. I'm going to assume your HDD is
/dev/sda and your flashdrive is
/dev/sdb.
It should go without saying this operation will make the existing contents of the HDD unusable, without substantial effort to recover them. If you want to properly wipe the HDD first, run
shred -n 0 /dev/sdaRun
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda bs=1m Be sure to ignore partition numbers - no /dev/sda1 or whatever. You want to write the entire contents of the image directly to the first sector of the HDD.
Flashing the image file itself from somewhere is more efficient and faster, but more complicated and hard to explain. I mounted an SMB share from my fileserver and flashed the imagefile with
dd if=/mnt/server/bitcoin/BAMT/bamt_v0.5c.img of=/dev/sda bs=1m