I cant’ set persistence

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anitX 19.2, pendrive, fat32 install use unetbootin.
From menu I setup homefs, configure 1automatic

add tampermonkey extension to firefox, download some files

shutdown, start, not works, I havent tampermonkey and download files 🙁

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Hi! You seem to missing the part of the process, you have to tell antiX to use the persistence files you created: from antiX’s boot menu you have to press F5 and select the kind of persistence you want antiX to run with and then, if you want to make that selection “stick” (always be used every time you boot antiX live) press F8 and select to save changes.

Please take a look at the FAQ’s: https://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/docs-antiX-19/FAQ/persistence.html and also https://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/docs-antiX-19/Boot_Menu/antiX-gfxboot.html#save

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It is old FAQ?
F5 not works

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Hum, you probably are booting a relatively recent computer that uses UEFI to manage boot. In that case the F keys menu is not used. You’ll probably see, in the antiX boot menu something like “advanced settings”? try clicking there are look for something in the menu that refers to Persistence (and then saving changes).

EDIT:
Check out this instructions:
https://antixlinux.com/forum-archive/solved-want-to-boot-antix-15-v_x64-full-iso-in-uef-t5709.html

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It’s hp 8470p
boot menu antix:
antix….. full
antix…. customize boot
advanced options for …. full:
—anitx …. failsafe
—antix …. full create bootchart
—anitx … full (1024×768)
—poweroff
—reboot
—help
memory test
bootrescure menus

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UNetbootin (Universal Netboot Installer) is a cross-platform utility that can create live USB systems and can load a variety of system utilities or install various Linux distributions and other operating systems without a CD.

Using something that is not antiX/MX live USB maker will probably not work.
Anyway, when you boot from USB, do you see A(Legacy boot) or B(UEFI boot). See below:

A. LEGACY

B. UEFI

For case A is very easy.

For Case B: If you are in UEFI boot, you should have gone through a cascading text menu options. In one of them (the sixth entry) you should have selected persist_home

Next time you boot, do you see a “(Custom)” option? Don’t select that one and select the (text menus) option and start all over.
The other alternative is editing your /live/boot-dev/boot/grub/grub.cfg and changing the CUSTOM entry and add the persist_home parameter.

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Xecure I see in case B nothing (because in this option image snow – I’m guessing that the cursor is flashing and waiting for something, but I can’t do anything because I don’t know what to choose)

https://i.imgur.com/HDxdJOj.jpg

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When using UNetbootin to choose what linux to load, can you choose it to load in grub/syslinux mode?

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I don’t see grub/syslinux option.
In command line too
https://github.com/unetbootin/unetbootin/wiki/commands

Or maybe something like that?
Install or download what I need (tampermonky, some bash scripts, mp3) and install it on a second flash drive as a normal installation?

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From: https://github.com/unetbootin/unetbootin/wiki/howitworks

USB Drive install mode

For the Live USB creation mode, UNetbootin generates an appropriate syslinux config file in /syslinux.cfg, and makes your USB drive bootable using syslinux. On Linux, if extlinux is installed and the target USB drive is ext2 or ext3, extlinux is used instead; the config file is installed in /extlinux.conf. The partition to which it has been installed is also marked as active.

This is probably interfearing with antiX boot.

We may be able to do something without having to install to another USB.
Could you check what you see in /live/boot-dev/boot/grub/grub.cfg in antiX live? If you can, paste it here with the code tags option, so it is better readable. Or add it as an attachment.

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#------------------------------------------------------------------
# file: /boot/grub/grub.cfg for the Live version of antiX
#
# This file can get updated automatically on a LiveUSB via the save
# feature in the text menus.  It is possible to break these updates
# by editing this file.
#------------------------------------------------------------------

# search --no-floppy --set=root --fs-uuid %UUID%
set timeout=60
set gfxmode=1024x768
#set gfxpayload="3200x1800;2560x1440;2160x1440;1920x1080;1600x1200;1600x1050;1600x900;1440x900;1366x768;1280x1024;1280x800;1280x720;1024x768;auto"
set gfxpayload="2048x2048;2048x1280;2048x1080;1920x1080;1600x900;1600x1200;1600x1050;1500x1000;1440x960;1440x900;1368x912;1366x768;1280x800;1280x720;1280x1024;1200x800;1024x768;auto"
set default=1

# load defaults
#
if [ -s $prefix/config/defaults.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/config/defaults.cfg
fi

menuentry " antiX-19.2 x64-full (27 March 2020)" {
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splasht disable=lxF
initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
}

#--custom  menuentry " Custom" {
#--custom  linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet
#--custom  initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
#--custom  }

menuentry " antiX-19.2 x64-full Customize Boot (text menus)" {
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splasht disable=lxF menus
initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
}

submenu ">>> Advanced Options for antiX-19.2 x64-full <<<" {

menu_color_normal=white/black
menu_color_highlight=yellow/light-gray

menuentry " antiX-19.2 x64-full Failsafe" {
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splasht disable=lxF failsafe
initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
}

menuentry "antiX-19.2 x64-full Create Bootchart" {
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splasht disable=lxF bootchart initcall_debug printk.time=y
initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
}

menuentry " antiX-19.2 x64-full (1024x768)" {
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splasht disable=lxF
initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
}

menuentry " Power Off" --hotkey=P {
halt
}

menuentry " Reboot"  --hotkey=R {
reboot
}

if [ -f /boot/grub/theme/help.txt ]; then
menuentry " Help" --hotkey=H {
cat /boot/grub/theme/help.txt
echo -n "Press <Enter> to continue "
read xxx_help
}
fi
}

# load boot menus
#
if [  -f  $prefix/config/bootmenu.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/config/bootmenu.cfg
fi

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First try: The “easy” way.
When booting again from USB, select the second option (the one that says “antiX-19.2 x64-full Customize Boot (text menus)”), but DONT hit enter. Hit the “e” key.
then you will see something similar to:

We will be editing the third line, that right now should say something like:
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splasht disable=lxF menus

Navigate using the arrow keys of the keyboard. Delete the splasht option. The previous line should now look like this:
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet disable=lxF menus

Now hit F10 key in your keyboard and see if you can now see the different text options and select them.
If this way works, then forget aboyt the very complicated method below. If it doesn’t, reboot and try as follows.

Method 2. Manual selection (The hard way)
In the boot menu, when selecting first boot option (the one that says “antiX-19.2 x64-full (27 March 2020)”), before hitting enter, hit the e key.
then you will see something similar to:

We will be editing the third line, that right now should say something like:
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splasht disable=lxF

We will add to the end of that line the correct boot options manually. (Also delete the splasht option just in case)
First we will decide the options. I will guide you with an example, then if you need some changes you can ask and we will change them until we are satisfied.

1. Language. If you are going to set it up in english, you can skip this option. If you want another language, like french, then you will add this parameter:
lang=fr

2. Keyboard layout. Better change it inside the system. As an example, for greek keyboard:
kbd=gr

2.Timezone. You can set it up here or later choose it in the system. I would not set anything here and prefere to change it in the system. As an example, seting it up for London(UK) would be:
tz=Europe/London

3. Mounting option. If you want the antiX system to automount all drives when they are connected to the computer, enable automount. If not, choose noautomount
automount

4. Persistence mode. You will decide what persistence mode you want. For only saving home changes, the option is persist_home. If you want to also save root changes, you will need persist_all. All options are explained in the FAQ. For now, we will choose only to save home
persist_home

5. Saving some files across reboots (like files in /etc/, wifi setup, some configuration files, etc.)
savestate

6. Saving all selected options so that they are included as the custom boot parameters. This is the most important option. If I am not mistaken, this boot parameter is
gfxsave

EXTRA: I would also delete some parameters and hope this could fix some of the options when they pop up.

Now that you knwo what options you want, it is time to add them at the end of the third line mentioned above. For this example, it would look like:
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet disable=lxF lang=fr kbd=gr tz=Europe/London automount persist_home savestate gfxsave
A crazy amount of options.
Once done, hit the F10 key of your keyboard to boot with your desired parameters.

Let me know how it goes.

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method 1 (result image snow)
method 2 boot antix.
What now?

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Now home persistence should work, but you are right that this is not enough.
I thought gfxsave worked, but it doesnt.

No problem. All you hard work in method 2 can be used properly.

Boot into live system with the first option, as you have done before.

Edit as root the file /live/boot-dev/boot/grub/grub.cfg with your prefered text editor.
example:
sudo geany /live/boot-dev/boot/grub/grub.cfg

Now edit the lines that say:

#--custom  menuentry " Custom" {
#--custom  linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet
#--custom  initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
#--custom  }

to a custom menu entry with the tittle you want and the boot parameters you chose during the method 2. Example:

menuentry " Custom antiX with home persistence" {
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet disable=lxF lang=fr kbd=gr tz=Europe/London automount persist_home savestate
initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
}

Save and reboot. Now you will always be able to enter home persistence.

Test it out and let us know how it goes.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Xecure. Reason: formating

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yes! works!
for example create directory (save)

I set kbd and lang en
I saw during that some error concern “en” (probably)

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