[Bug 1899308] Re: failure to boot groovy daily (again)

[sudodus]

@ Chris,

This bug might correspond to an observation, that I made years ago with
persistent live drives made by mkusb.

Some old (at that time maybe middle-aged) HP computers refuse to boot

. in BIOS mode
- from a USB drive
- via grub
- in a GUID partition table (GPT).

That made me add an entry to the settings menu, where the default in
GPT, but the user can select MSDOS partition table.

This is described in the following link,

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1076951/what-are-the-mkusb-options-
msdos-upefi-and-d-n-i

If this is the case, it should work for you to create persistent live
drives to work around this bug, when you select 'MSDOS partition table'
in the settings menu of mkusb. But it should fail, if you keep the
'default GPT'.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to cd-boot-images-amd64 in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1899308

Title:
  failure to boot groovy daily  (again)

Status in Ubuntu CD Images:
  New
Status in cd-boot-images-amd64 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This is either a duplicate or return of
  - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1883040
  - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1886148

  Most probably "groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS
  boxes" or the 1883040 bug, as it's impacting only my older slow boxes
  (but it's also different).

  thumb-drive has been successfully used in QA live & install tests,
  however it won't boot on

  hp dc7700 (c2d-e6320, 5gb, nvidia quadro nvs 290)
  hp dc7900 (c2d-e8400, 4gb, intel 4 series integrated i915)

  The last timing issue also impacted d755-5 (older dell optiplex 755)
  when dc7700 was impacted, but that booted successfully this ISO.

  I see thumb-drive flash as it tries to boot, eventually it stops
  flashing, but no boot. At least 6 attempts made to boot, thumb-drive
  being tested on another 2x d755 boxes..

  ** Expected result

  It boots & is usable

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1899308/+subscriptions