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  1. Bug #1922342
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 1922342

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Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote : Re: [Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 02:00, Lucap <email address hidden> wrote:

> Yeah it is complicated , when you look at a freshly written USB stick
> with gnome disks there is a box you can tick that says Legacy BIOS
> bootable , I'm not sure if gnome disks is doing as described below with
> the "bios_grub" flag as the link talks about a hardrive so i'm not sure
> if it would apply to a USB stick?
>

That is perhaps setting the bootable flag on the single partition entry in
the "protective" MBR, which is AIUI technically a violation of the GPT
spec. But if it helps here maybe we should hack it anyway. I'm going to
subscribe Thomas Schmitt, xorriso upstream, who knows enormously more than
I do about all this stuff.