Feature #10944

When booting from DVD, if USB stick plugged, Tails ends up running from USB stick

Added by emmapeel 2016-01-15 10:22:18 . Updated 2016-09-08 06:03:42 .

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2016-01-15
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Description

I have known about this issue since a while from frontdesk. I just realised there is no ticket about it, or maybe we always thought of it as an undocumented feature.

Steps to reproduce:

- Boot Tails from DVD (lets say Tails 1.6)

- Once booting started, plug USB stick with another Tails version (lets say Tails 1.7)
- Check Applications/Tails/About Tails

The Tails version is the USB stick one.

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One user that cannot boot from USB stick reported using this as a workaround to boot Tails, and use Persistence and automatic upgrades from the USB stick._

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Related issues

Is duplicate of Tails - Feature #7475: Have live-boot honor FSUUID= Confirmed 2014-06-30

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2016-01-15 14:01:49

  • Assignee set to emmapeel

IMO it’s part of a general class of bugs that will be fixed by Feature #7475.
Wrt. one of the unsupported use cases of this trick, Feature #5561 should help.

I say we can close this as a duplicate, then. What do you think?

#2 Updated by emmapeel 2016-09-08 06:03:42

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Duplicate
  • Assignee deleted (emmapeel)

intrigeri wrote:

> I say we can close this as a duplicate, then. What do you think?
sure!

#3 Updated by emmapeel 2016-09-08 06:04:17

  • is duplicate of Feature #7475: Have live-boot honor FSUUID= added