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moveslow
Hello everyone.
I’m using Antix 19 as a live system with persistence, but every time I reboot my notebook I need to add additional keyboard layouts and change time settings. Any ideas why these settings didn’t save on reboot? 🙁
anticapitalista
Did you set them via F2/F3 at boot menu (legacy boot) or custom boot option in menu if booting uefi.
F8 will save them.Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
Xecure
Hello.
I’m using Antix 19 as a live system with persistence, but every time I reboot my notebook I need to add additional keyboard layouts and change time settings. Any ideas why these settings didn’t save on reboot? 🙁
It is probably as anticapitalista says, but if using UEFI boot, I don’t think changes can be saved with F8 key. Check out /live/boot-dev/boot/grub/grub.cfg. I have summarized some possible solutions for each problem.
For keyboard layout, two possible reasons:
– You are only changing keyboard for this session. Solution: Control Center > System > Set System Keyboard Layout > Choose keyboard layout, move it up so that it is the first option, delete non-used layouts. Save persistence changes.
– It may be set as a boot parameter. If you have selected a language previously (during your first boot) it may be loading the keyboard layout related to that language. Check /live/boot-dev/boot/grub/grub.cfg and look for the “Custom” menu entry. A good fix is to add your keyboard layout as a boot parameter. For example, kbd=us sets the keyboard as US keyboard. Change it to whatever you want.For Time settings, two possible reasons:
– It may be set as a boot parameter. Check /live/boot-dev/boot/grub/grub.cfg and look for the “Custom” menu entry. If you see a parameter like tz=Europe/London, and that is not your timezone, you can change it for your correct timezone. If this file doesn’t help or cannot be found, you could also hit “e” key when the boot options appear to see what options are saved and edit them to check if changing this works (these changes are not permanent, you really have to edit the correct grub file to make them permanent).
– Your time always changes after booting to a different OS. This is probably because a problem between local time, UTC and BIOS settings. I am not knowledgeable enough to solve this. Many posts related to this in the forum.antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.Hello! Thank you for your reply! 🙂
Did you set them via F2/F3 at boot menu (legacy boot) or custom boot option in menu if booting uefi.
F8 will save them.For some reason I don’t have F2/F3 options at boot menu, unfortunately 🙁
Hello.
It is probably as anticapitalista says, but if using UEFI boot, I don’t think changes can be saved with F8 key. Check out /live/boot-dev/boot/grub/grub.cfg. I have summarized some possible solutions for each problem.
For keyboard layout, two possible reasons:
– You are only changing keyboard for this session. Solution: Control Center > System > Set System Keyboard Layout > Choose keyboard layout, move it up so that it is the first option, delete non-used layouts. Save persistence changes.
– It may be set as a boot parameter. If you have selected a language previously (during your first boot) it may be loading the keyboard layout related to that language. Check /live/boot-dev/boot/grub/grub.cfg and look for the “Custom” menu entry. A good fix is to add your keyboard layout as a boot parameter. For example, kbd=us sets the keyboard as US keyboard. Change it to whatever you want.For Time settings, two possible reasons:
– It may be set as a boot parameter. Check /live/boot-dev/boot/grub/grub.cfg and look for the “Custom” menu entry. If you see a parameter like tz=Europe/London, and that is not your timezone, you can change it for your correct timezone. If this file doesn’t help or cannot be found, you could also hit “e” key when the boot options appear to see what options are saved and edit them to check if changing this works (these changes are not permanent, you really have to edit the correct grub file to make them permanent).
– Your time always changes after booting to a different OS. This is probably because a problem between local time, UTC and BIOS settings. I am not knowledgeable enough to solve this. Many posts related to this in the forum.Thank you! This works! 🙂 But the kbd option is deleting default system keyboard layout, so for example, if I’m using my language, I can’t enter my password because my password is in english and I didn’t found a way to keep both layouts, but it’s fine 🙂
Thank for your help, anticapitalista and Xecure! 🙂
- This reply was modified 3 years ago by moveslow.
Xecure
I’m using my language, I can’t enter my password because my password is in english and I didn’t found a way to keep both layouts, but it’s fine
You could have them both set with boot parameter kbd. Lets imagine it is US layout and Greek layout, wanting US layout first:
kbd=us,grThen, after login in, you click the flag in the systemtray and change language to your second language.
Try it out and see if it helps.antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.anticapitalista
You must be booting UEFI.
At boot screen menu – choose customise menu option – somewhere you should be prompted to save the settings you choose.
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
Hello again 🙂
Thank you for your help! Using kbd with 2 layouts works perfectly! 🙂
To Anticapitalista:
Yes, unfortunately I’ve been looking through all of the options at the boot menu and still I didn’t find anything related to save changes(Using UEFI), maybe I’m looking in the wrong place, but I’ve seen only: Reboot and Shutdown options.BTW I’ve been watching videos by DolphinOracle about live persistence with UEFI, but the strange thing is that even following tutorial, I didn’t saw many text menus. So to configure persistence, I needed to boot live cd first, then manually set up rootfs space for persistence and for home persistence as well. Then I needed to reboot my laptop and follow the tutorial(Yes, I still didn’t saw any text menus with: “Choose space for rootfs file), but anyway, somehow it’s working 😀 I really like antix and I’m using it as my main system + using it as my secondary system on the USB flash with persistence. You made a great work, thank you for Antix! 🙂
Xecure
Thank you for your help! Using kbd with 2 layouts works perfectly!
It is good it worked out.
Yes, unfortunately I’ve been looking through all of the options at the boot menu and still I didn’t find anything related to save changes(Using UEFI), maybe I’m looking in the wrong place, but I’ve seen only: Reboot and Shutdown options.
anticapitalista is talking about Customize Boot (text menus)
Hitting ‘e’ you can see that the boot parameter is menus
After going through all the menus, it should ask to save the info in a Customized boot selection.
My recommendation is to hit ‘e’ in your custom antiX, add the boot parameters you want (kbd, etc), add the boot parameter menus, Hit F10 and select what you want to do. (if everything else is already set just hit Enter for every text menu, it should not change your already made changes)
Then when you reached the persistence menu
You select the option you want (if not already selected).
And then save all changes. The next time, Custom selection should include those changes (that way you avoid having to find the boot file and modifying it).As you say, you need to 1) Set root/home persistence files in the live antiX (Control center > Live > Set Up Live Persistence) or on the next reboot after going through the text menus.
Enjoy antiX!
antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.Oh. Thanks a lot! 🙂
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