Tails/debian doesn't pack exfat support under its initramfs: Heads cannot boot tails iso from exfat partition (upstream issue)
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Note that Tails doesn't pack exfat support. Opened issue https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20621
Workaround: Tails will boot out of ext3/ext4/fat32 formatted thumb drive with iso+iso.asc in root of that partition.
Originally posted by @tlaurion in #1809 (comment)
Notes:
- Tried to create custom iso under QubeOS with local patches to support qemu, fails with rootfs consuming all space: not functional. without additional hacks. See : patch.txt
- tried to replicate over ubuntu: they dropped vagrant and vagrant-libvirt doesn't work with upstream instructions.
4 hours of testing leading to nothing : waiting for upstream to pick up the opened issue. Pinged again today..
Misunderstanding happened issue got closed yesterday https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20621#note_247429
Asked for reconsideration and rexplained issue. Was closed because they understood I asked for exfat support to be dropped???? I'm confused.
exfat support missing also from debian iso.
Reopened issue under tails.
Tested PR created and referred under https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20621#note_247870
Considered but asked size differences, which needed to add xz as per #1860 to produce this comment upstream under tails https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/merge_requests/1802#note_248508