Well, I tried the usb-direct beta image on a dell xps 13" v9343
I found that it did not work, I looked at the suggestion (below) ...
Not applicable as the boot attempt gave me "selected boot device failed.
"
I could not make any change to the system at that point, I did try
both legacy and uefi, neither worked
I have an old lenovo thinkpad T61, it worked on it, I have a macbookpro
from mid 2015, it worked.
I tryed several loaders, etcher (the new version linked on tails page
comes with an advertisement, unlike the older version I already had), I
also tried linux disks restore (first time I found disks to be better
than gParted!)
they all worked to boot the lenovo, but none worked to boot the dell
Also, 2 other mysteries. the partition size was usually 8.6gb (thanks
for expanding that !!), but a couple tryes yielded a 1.2 gb partition
for the tails system, secondarily, one of my attempts gave me a fully
functioning tails 3.7 stick, which is weird as I have no .iso or .dmg of
3.7, have not run that version for at least half a year, and the stick I
used to create it had recently been upgraded from 3.8 to 3.11 ...
maybe it had traces of previous 3.7 on it somehow?? real mystery!!
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Bug report: e55e58098265a0607a777f923b501fab
Date: 20/01/2019 04:42
From: tails-bugs@???
To: thomas@???
Hi !
> <tails-tester@???>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown
> in
> virtual mailbox table (in reply to RCPT TO command)
the right mailing list address is tails-testers@??? :)
> then it did NOT work on my dell xps-13 v9343 =(
there is a graphic issue preventing Tails from booting on some XPS
models, could you try the workaround documented there :
https://tails.boum.org/support/known_issues/index.en.html#index13h3
cheers.