** Description changed:

  ** Synopsis
  
  I haven't been able to get ISOs to boot on older BIOS based boxes since
  late Sunday (7-June). Examples are Ubuntu, Ubuntu-Studio, Kubuntu,
  Xubuntu and since then Lubuntu too.
  
- NOTE:
- 
- This `ubuntu-bug` report was filed on the only box that booted, and
- didn't have an issue, so details of box are NOT the problem.
+ NOTE:  This `ubuntu-bug` report was filed on the only box (I'd noted a
+ the time) that booted, and didn't have an issue, so details of box are
+ NOT the problem.
  
  On boxes that have the issue boot stops at
  
  "unable to find medium container a live file system
  Attempt interactive netboot from a URL?"
+ 
+ (no squashfs check on plymouth type display is seen)
+ 
+ 
+ ** Addendum - It's not impacting all BIOS boxes either
+ FAILED to boot are
+ - hp dc7700 (c2d-e6320, 5gb, nvidia quadro nvs 290)
+ - dell [optiplex] 755 (c2d-e6850, 5gb, amd/ati radeon rv516/x1300/x1550)
+ 
+ But boxes that boot are
+ + dell [optiplex] 755 (c2d-e8300, 8gb, amd/ati radeon rv610/radeon hd2400 
pro/xt)
+ + dell [optiplex] 780 (c2q-q9400, 4gb, amd/ati cedar radeon hd 
5000/6000/7350/8350)
+ + hp 8200 elite sff (i5-2400, 8gb, nvidia quadro 600)
+ 
+ 
+ It APPEARS the boxes that boot are newer; I had a fail & pass with a d755 
that have identical boxes but have different motherboards (no PS2 
mouse/keyboard ports in booting example)
  
  
  ** Background (timing)
  
  On Sunday Morning 7-June I zsync'd the lubuntu daily & wrote to media to
  continue testing of our updated LXQt (0.15.0) without issue (AEST or my
  local Melbourne time)
  
  That night I grabbed ubuntu-studio, ubuntu, xubuntu, kubuntu (& tried to
  grab ubuntu-mate but it's not available yet) and was unable to get these
  to boot  I may not have tried all or in many combinations - just gave
  them all up as problematic.  I also deleted all entries I'd started on
  iso.qa.ubuntu.com (assuming bad media)
  
  Last night (Wednesday 10 June) I grabbed all again, wrote to media
  again, and tried booting & failed.  ISO was tried on four different
  thumb-drives, using two boxes to write the media. It failed to boot on
  multiple tried boxes (HP, DELL.. all BIOS).  Also the Lubuntu was
  updated (zsync) & written and it won't boot either anymore.
  
  Most hardware I test on is old/BIOS boxes.  Just now I re-tried a thumb-
  drive on this newer UEFI and it boots here - ie. issue appears to impact
  only BIOS boxes (c2d, c2q etc)
  
  Note: I also have loads of issues with thumb-drive (worn out maybe?)
  which is why I deleted my iso.qa.ubu entries, and didn't raise this till
  today.  3 thumb-drives were purchased this year, 2 have never given me
  issues.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
  Package: syslinux 3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-26.30-generic 5.4.30
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-26-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu38
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CasperVersion: 1.449
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Jun 11 03:31:57 2020
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Alpha amd64 (20200609)
  ProcEnviron:
-  TERM=xterm-256color
-  PATH=(custom, no user)
-  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
-  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
+  TERM=xterm-256color
+  PATH=(custom, no user)
+  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
+  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: syslinux
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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