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

[sudodus]

Hi again Thomas,

The grub comes from a compressed tarball, that is extracted onto the
target drive. This makes it independent of the current operating system
and its version of grub.

So in order to look at it, use dus-iso2usb, or if you want only the
basics, extract only the tarball, in this case if you installed mkusb
22.0.1

/usr/share/mkusb/dd_grub-boot-template-for-uefi-n-
bios_msdos_grub-2.0.2-n-2.0.4.img.xz

If you don't want to install mkusb into your main system, you can
install it into a persistent live system in a USB pendrive or into a
system in a virtual machine.

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

Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in casper package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in casper source package in Impish:
  Confirmed
Status in casper source package in Kinetic:
  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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