u wrote: > Hi! > > some time ago, we started distributing USB images alongside our ISO > images, so that the installation process would get easier (especially > for Windows and macOS users) and faster (by getting rid of the need to > install an intermediary Tails device). > > Using the USB image, on first boot the system partition is resized > automatically. This seems to fail on some computers, but we have very > little data about the usefulness of a proposed fix. > > You can help > ============ > > This is why we ask you today to help us test a fix, even and > _especially_ if you did _not_ encounter this bug of a Tails device not > booting a second time. The idea is that we want to see if our fix > results in regressions for users for whom it initially worked. [1] > > Interested? > =========== > > - Please download the .img file from > https://nightly.tails.boum.org/build_Tails_ISO_bugfix-16389-recompute-chs/builds/lastSuccessfulBuild/archive/build-artifacts/ > > - Install the image to a USB key, following the procedure indicated > here: > > - from Windows https://tails.boum.org/install/win/usb/ > - from macOS https://tails.boum.org/install/mac/usb/ > - from Linux https://tails.boum.org/install/linux/usb/ > > - Boot your computer with this Tails device once. Shut down. > - Boot your computer with this Tails devide again. > > - Please report back in reply to this email (public mailing list): > > - Brand and model of the USB stick and the computer used for testing > - Did the device boot a second time? > - If not: did you see an error message on boot? What did it say? > > Thank you for your help! > u. > > [1] If you're interested in the details: > https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/16389
u. tails-amd64-bugfix_16389-recompute-chs-3.14-20190516t1708z-a620eccd12+sta...@a7a5403a86.img successfully installed to a 16GB Kingston Data Traveler flash drive using dd under Arch Linux, booted and re-booted on all three of the systems available to me. None of these systems previously experienced the second boot failure: HP Pavillion dm4 laptop Lenovo Thinkpad T410 laptop Mintbox Mini AMD APC desktop L The output of lspci -nn executed on each system is attached. regards, alienpup
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lspci-nn-lenovo-thinkpad-t410.out
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