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fix(deploy): make live ISOs USB-bootable (isoImage.makeUsbBootable)

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The live ISO config set makeEfiBootable + makeBiosBootable but omitted
makeUsbBootable, so the image got BIOS+UEFI El Torito boot catalogs but
no isohybrid MBR/GPT — i.e. no partition table. dd'd to a USB stick it
shows iso9660 on the whole device with no ESP, and picky firmware (the
Sintra's Aaeon UP Board) won't recognise it as bootable, falling back to
its android-ia entry. Enabling makeUsbBootable applies the isohybrid MBR
(isohdpfx.bin) + GPT/ESP. Fixes USB boot for every model's live ISO.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ in
isoImage = {
makeEfiBootable = true;
makeBiosBootable = true;
# Apply the isohybrid MBR + GPT/ESP so the image boots when dd'd to a USB
# stick — not just from optical media via El Torito. Without this the ISO
# has BIOS+UEFI El Torito boot catalogs but no partition table, and picky
# firmware (e.g. the Sintra's Aaeon UP Board) won't recognise the USB as
# bootable. Requires makeBiosBootable (isohdpfx.bin), set above.
makeUsbBootable = true;
squashfsCompression = "zstd -Xcompression-level 6";
};