Bug 450732

Summary:	USB keeps booting into grub although bios-grub was unselected and saved
Product:	[Applications] partitionmanager	Reporter:	Henning <boredsquirrel>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Andrius Štikonas <andrius>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	21.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Henning 2022-02-23 02:36:12 UTC

SUMMARY
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Create a bootable USB drive
2. Tick "bootable" and "bios-grub" 
3. save
4. unselect "bios-grub"
5. save
6. boot into it

OBSERVED RESULT
I had this on a failed Tails install, which only worked through Rufus.
Additionally not not booting, it kept booting into grub, although I had disabled it twice and saved in between.

EXPECTED RESULT
Normal select / deselect behavior.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Kubuntu
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.86.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
BIOS, old well supported Hardware, no Problems booting into Linux

Comment 1 Andrius Štikonas 2022-02-23 20:04:11 UTC

Can you please explain a bit more what you were doing. I don't think partition manager has capability of creating bootable USB drives.

Did you create USB drive with some other program and then edited partition flags with partitionmanager?

Comment 2 Andrius Štikonas 2022-02-23 20:05:00 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 450731 ***