Some USB sticks become unbootable in legacy BIOS mode after first boot
As per “[Tails-testers] tails 3.12rc1 becomes unbootable on bios after first use” and “[Tails-testers] Testing the 3.12 image”. OPs are phredo@protonmail.com and cangscop@gmail.com. The latter “fixed” the problem by opening the drive in gdisk and rebuilding the protective MBR; they also shared an image of the MBR + GPT header of the broken stick + the diff between that one and the fixed one.
Reports of this issue:
… where recomputing CHS fixed the problem:
… where recomputing CHS did not fix the problem:
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https://lists.autistici.org/message/20190302.084144.948cedd2.en.html
(they wrote about their attempt to fix this in an email to u and me
(segfault):
I’ve tried the work-around : https://tails.boum.org/news/version_3.12/index.en.html#index2h1 ?
root # sgdisk —recompute-chs /dev/bilibop
It won’t work neither. (by stand-alone boot on 3.12.1)
The symptom remains the same.
… where we don’t know whether recomputing CHS would have fixed the problem:
Recent reports of other boot issues which do not seem to be the same issue:
- https://lists.autistici.org/message/20190328.021008.03aa2bc3.en.html
- https://lists.autistici.org/message/20190401.074103.bc76dd9e.en.html
- https://lists.autistici.org/message/20190419.203140.cd5d1b8a.en.html
- https://lists.autistici.org/message/20190522.061704.60c15ee0.en.html
- https://lists.autistici.org/message/20190523.135640.7f7eed6c.en.html
Unclear:
Feature Branch: bugfix/16389-recompute-chs
Attachments
Related issues
- Related to #16397 (closed)
- Related to #15987 (closed)
- Related to #16731 (closed)
Original created by @intrigeri on 16389 (Redmine)