[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

[Chris Guiver]

@lucap

I dispute that 'they' don't care.

Canonical employees are paid to work only a set number of hours a week,
and have responsibilities/tasks they need to complete in their hours, so
have very limited time to fix extra issues.

This bug was reported once during the hirsute cycle in QA-testing (by
http://launchpad.net/~jmarinho).

I would also likely have reported it too, only at the time the bug
report was NOT that the system took ages to boot, but instead that
"HIrsute live session does not work on BIOS systems" so my QA tests did
not fit the then description of this report (it booted).

Two boxes (of the six) I used were specifically chosen as they were
troublesome in the groovy cycle as they were slow.  The result of lack
of reports (in QA-testing) was this was not a high priority bug.

A number of issues with BIOS devices were discovered during recent
cycles in QA-testing (esp. groovy if I recall correctly), and I saw a
lot of energy spent on resolving those issues (ISOs were spun for me to
download & boot on the two (plus one other) boxes I described as
troublesome earlier just so more could be learnt).  Late in the cycle
though there is limited time, thus bugs with low rating being ignored is
to be expected.

The time to get issues detected is usually earlier in the cycle (alpha
stage), and via the QA testing site (so testing is tracked, appears in
weekly reports regularly/repeatedly etc).

80% of my QA-testing is on BIOS only boxes, but I tend to QA-test
lighter flavors as GNOME isn't much 'fun' on c2d & like machines

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Title:
  HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

Status in casper package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  First of all, I change the description of this bug because, thanks to
  Chris Guiver comments, I could check that the live session effectively
  works but it takes too long to complete. That's why I change the
  description of the bug from live session does not boot to live session
  takes ages to boot. I hope this is the best approach to this.

  I think the problem is the same as described here:
  https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/20-10-grub-error-can-t-find-
  command-grub-platform/4292. I can see prior to grub menu, briefly, the
  same error: Error can't find grub_platform. After the solution
  described below, this error is not showed and the system is able to
  boot.

  I try making the live usb using startup disk creator and with gnome-
  disks --> Restore disk image and get the same results.

  The live-usb has a gpt partition table instead of mbr like 20.04 live-
  usb has. That implies, I think, that the first one does not boot on
  BIOS systems and the second does.

  I try the same live-usb on an EFI laptop and it boots perfectly
  (perhaps it takes long time, but more less than in this case.

  If I try the solution described here:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/1905491/comments/8
  then it works.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
  Package: casper 1.461
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-13.14-generic 5.11.7
  Uname: Linux 5.11.0-13-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu61
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CasperVersion: 1.461
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Fri Apr  2 09:55:24 2021
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Beta amd64 (20210331.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=gl_ES.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: casper
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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