Stop mounting partition 1 as /boot#120
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Raspberry Pi OS's prior to Bookworm would mount partition 1 as /boot. This is the default behavior for the arm-runner-action that we were using to create images and this behavior was copied in the photon-image-runner that we now use. However, mounting this partition as /boot shadows the real /boot and prevents modifying the contents of that directory. This turns up as a problem when we try to modify the dtoverlay.
On Raspberry Pi images from Bookworm, partition 1 is mounted as /boot/firmware. On the Orange Pi images we use, partition 1 is a data folder for cloud-init and should be mounted at /CIDATA.
This PR overrides the automatic mounting of partition 1 and instead leaves it to the appropriate install script to mount any partitions other than root as appropriate for that image.