[Headless, Baremetal, N54L install]

35 minutes ago, billat29 said:

Maybe.

Did you disable c1e in the bios?

Shut the n40 down. Does the n54l boot from that stick?

Yes, I did disable c1e.
Haven't tried the N40L stick.. Since the MAC is wrong I never thought of that. Thanks I'll try it out tonight.

[Headless, Baremetal, N54L install]

Well this thread gives me hope. 
I just got a new (to me) N54L and I can't get it to boot from the USB. I have a N40L too and it runs perfectly.

The N50L will boot stuff like a freeDOS BIOS update (TheBay) just not the boot loader. Drives me mad.

 

Could it be that it doesn't like the USB stick? It's a 16GB USB3 Kingston Datatraveler. Should I try to find an older USB2 stick?