Author: intrigeri Date: To: . ., tails-testers Subject: Re: [Tails-testers] tails 3.12rc1 becomes unbootable on bios after
first use
Hi,
. .: > hello,
> i encountered a bug.
This is very interesting and I'd really like to understand what's
going on before we finalize the 3.12 release. I'll have a few
questions for you below:
> i upgraded tails 3.11 to the testing release from the live usb
How exactly did you apply this upgrade?
> and the first time it booted with success(on a bios system). at
> some time, the live usb must have altered the partitions, which after the
> first use becomes impossible to boot again on a bios system but not on a
> uefi one. > i noticed that the partitioning changes after a boot: from the
> original 1,2 GB vfat to a 8,6 GB vfat. i wrote the image again on the usb,
> and it booted one more time before i encountered the same issue once again.
Indeed, 3.12~rc1 will update the partition table when first booting on
a USB drive where our USB image was freshly installed. Now, that
operation is definitely not supposed to break legacy BIOS boot.
I'll try to reproduce this right away on a legacy BIOS system.
> if you need any additional detail, please ask.
segfault, anything that springs to mind? Maybe a dump of the first few
MiB of the drive would help you investigate what's going on?
