[Bug 1899308] Re: failure to boot groovy daily (again)

[Jags Desai]

Hi @sudodus

(1) The HP desktop have AMD radeon 290X graphics card.

(2) Ubuntu MATE Focal 20.04 with kernel 5.9.0 and 5.8.14 runs just fine
on the same HP PVILION eLITE DESKTOP.

(3) Yes, as described in my previous post, when I try to boot the system
from Ubuntu MATE Groovy desktop Oct 14, 2020 Live USB (prepared either
with Etcher or MultiBootUSB), I do NOT get Grub from Live USB at all.

Cursor blinks once or twice and immediately I get "installed version" of
the Grub from Ubunbtu MATE Focal 20.04

(4) Regarding the "mkusb". Is this the correct PPA to install it from?

https://launchpad.net/~mkusb/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Because I just added the PPA (and added the signing key / fingerprint)
but afterwards I only get "mkusb" in Synaptic.

I can not find "mkusb-dus". Or are they one and same package?

(5) I will try once again with mkusb with the settings you've suggested.

Thanks alot.

- Jags

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Title:
  failure to boot groovy daily  (again)

Status in Ubuntu CD Images:
  Fix Released
Status in cd-boot-images-amd64 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This is either a duplicate or return of
  - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1883040
  - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1886148

  Most probably "groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS
  boxes" or the 1883040 bug, as it's impacting only my older slow boxes
  (but it's also different).

  thumb-drive has been successfully used in QA live & install tests,
  however it won't boot on

  hp dc7700 (c2d-e6320, 5gb, nvidia quadro nvs 290)
  hp dc7900 (c2d-e8400, 4gb, intel 4 series integrated i915)

  The last timing issue also impacted d755-5 (older dell optiplex 755)
  when dc7700 was impacted, but that booted successfully this ISO.

  I see thumb-drive flash as it tries to boot, eventually it stops
  flashing, but no boot. At least 6 attempts made to boot, thumb-drive
  being tested on another 2x d755 boxes..

  (ISO written by mkusb/dus & gnome-disks [#11] is identical)

  ** Expected result

  It boots & is usable

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