Trouble making an Ubuntu flavour (dual-boot) USB stick with persistence file(s)

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 14:48:54 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 09:26, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> I tried Ventoy, but I'm willing to test anything else, too.  
>
>I like and use Ventoy myself, and it's very useful, and works well on
>both UEFI and BIOS.
>
>However, I would not expect persistence to work. If you want that, use
>a dedicated key, IMHO.

With some help I got closer, but it's still not working.


longpanda https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1948068#p1948068

Re: [Ventoy] Trouble making an USB stick with a persistence file

ventoy.json should be put in the 1st partition (the bigger partition)
not the 32MB VTOYEFI partition. So firstly you need to create a ventoy
directory maunally under /mnt/v1.ventoy and then put the ventoy.json
there. That's /mnt/v1.ventoy/ventoy/ventoy.json

The 32MB VTOYEFI partition is only for ventoy internal use.


Ralf      https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1948154#p1948154

Re: [Ventoy] Trouble making an USB stick with a persistence file

Thank you longpanda,

now the Ventoy menu shows "xubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso" and when
choosing it, the choice between "Boot without persistence" and "Boot
with /xubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-pers1.dat" follows. However, when booting
with "/xubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-pers1.dat", then after a restart nothing
is kept. Since the default user "xubuntu", UID 999 might be kind of a
guest account, that anyway does forget everything, I added a user
"ventoy", UID 1000. After a reboot the user is gone. I'll try with
"casper-rw" instead of "writable", when I've got time to continue.

Regards,
Ralf