Comment 41 for bug 1899308

Hi Chris,

There seems to be a difference between the first boot and the subsequent boots in your

hp dc7700 (c2d-e6320, 5gb, nvidia quadro nvs 290)

It might depend on the creation of the ext4 partition behind the image of the iso file, which happens only in the first attempt to boot. Another difference is that the partition is available for reading and writing at once in the following attempts to boot.

If you have the time, you could wipe the whole USB drive (with mkusb, slow process) and then clone from the current iso file again, and when booting add the boot option 'nopersistent' before continuing to boot. A more convenient method would be to replace the cloning with creating a 'nopersistent' boot drive using mkusb-plug (but it replaces 'quiet splash' with 'nopersistent').

This way, the drive should look the same during all subsequent boots. The question is: will the computer boot every time or fail every time? Or will there still be differences between the boot attempts?