> Making a Grub2 booter that uses Persistent partitions is not a problem
[if you create 4 partitions in a very specific way and with this
specific file system for the content extracted from the ISO]

I hope you can see the issue with the above because then I could add:

As demonstrated above, making a Grub2 booter that uses Persistent
partitions *is* a problem if you create partitions in a different way
with only 2 partitions, and without being tied to a specific file system
for the ISO extracted content.

You can't just declare that a bug should be minimized, because there is
a (rather complex, especially for Windows users, who can't easily copy
data to ext file systems) way to work around it. On its own, the
presence of a workaround does not invalidate the potential severity of a
bug.

> I think Grub2 does not like a FAT32 root.

That's not it. The cause of the bug is explained above, and is entirely
self-contained within the Ubuntu casper scripts. It's a big unfortunate
that, in order to try to make a point at
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1226318 and deflect your erroneous
initial assertion, you seem not to have properly read the data that is
provided to you about the exact cause and natureof this bug, which has
nothing to do with GRUB.

The root of the issue, which I took great pains to detail and which the
person who fixed the bug corroborated, is that in some circumstances,
which we expect to the the ones that most people trying to create a
persistent drive would match (because 2 partitions, one with the ISO
content, other one for 'casper-rw', is the *simplest* and *most
straightforward* way of creating a persistent media manually) casper
scripts will unmount the boot partition and fail to remount it.

That's the only issue, which is a rather major and unfortunate problem
and one, I will posit, that was left unaddressed for years on account
that people like you seem to have been just happy to tell users affected
by it that they should go through non-straightforward workarounds, like
the one you describe, instead of trying to help raise this bug's
visibility and priority so that this rather major issue got fixed.

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  Change to mount sequence order breaks persistence on casper-rw
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