I cant’ set persistence

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If using US english, and US keyboard, you can delete the kbd and lang entries. That way there will not be any errors there.

Please, when you have time, edit your first post and add SOLVED to the title.

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I have followed this thread with great interest and just want to thank you Xecure for sorting these things out as I did not realize that process of specifying booting options for Live antiX on UEFI computers is so different than for BIOS computers and I would say it is so much less intuitive.
As I standardized my booting options working on my BIOS laptops and I thought it would boot the same way on any computer, now it seems it needs much more work to make it ‘universal’.
This thread is a good lesson for me…
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The problem lies with gfxboot. gfxboot is used on our live system. It runs very well with legacy boot ie all the F options.
These do not work with UEFI. There is no plan upstream to get it to work either.

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anticapitalista wrote:

The problem lies with gfxboot. gfxboot is used on our live system. It runs very well with legacy boot ie all the F options.

Ok. I understand. Just a question, if you have the time.
What does the text menus last entry (save changes) do exactly? Does it give a command to change all variables in the Custom grub entry or does it use a boot option to do so? If it is the second (it calls a boot option equivalent to gfxboot), then maybe we could use that. If it runs a command (no boot option), then I asume that one will always have to go through the text menus to save boot options if they don’t want to edit the grub.conf file.

Thanks for your time.

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Understood. Considering no plans for the future we need to do our best with what is currently available.
Therefore:
– I have been directly editing various config files in both syslinux and grub for boot menus and options. Is this a good alternative?
– I am testing this but still not sure: If I set various boot options on BIOS computer (as it is easier done on BIOS computer), then boot this USB Live in UEFI computer, will these boot options carry to UEFI? I think they did not in my initial test but perhaps I missed some config file…

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UEFI text menu has an equivalent of F8 (save changes). It saves the previous chosen F options to the live grub.cfg file with the Title CUSTOMIZED Boot (or something like that)

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by anticapitalista.

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anticapitalista wrote:

UEFI text menu has an equivalent of F8 (save changes). It saves the previous chosen F options to the live grub.cfg file with the Title CUSTOM Boot

Thanks. This was my understanding. It performs equivalent to F options, such as persistence options.
So one thing what is missing from UEFI boot menus is boot parameters line, such as ‘splasht’ or disable=F. Edit function ‘e’ does not appear to save them. It appears F10 proceeds with booting edited parameters but does not save them. Looks like we still do need to edit grub.cfg on sdb1 antiX-Live-usb directly to make these changes. I could be missing save option though…
Thanks again and Regards.

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https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

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It works ok here. I just changed timezone. Note splasht disable=lxF is still there.

menuentry "Custom 386 non-pae (28 June 2020)" {
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splasht disable=lxF tz=Europe/Athens
initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
}

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anticapitalista wrote:

Note splasht disable=lxF is still there.

I realize I was not clear and therefore misunderstood. What I meant was that on BIOS mode screen I see a line of boot parameters that can be modified, such as ‘splasht’ or ‘disable=F’. Changing of these parameters results in creation of Custom boot with appended date.
Such line appears to be missing in UEFI boot screen. What is available is that when highlighting boot entry I can press edit function ‘e’ and modify these boot parameters. Pressing F10 makes boot proceed with such modified parameters however it does not seem to be saved (at least I do not see such save possibility) so on reboot these boot parameters are back where they were originally, unchanged. So is there a way to save these boot parameters changes except to edit grub.cfg directly on sdb antiX-Live-usb…
Thanks again…

Edit:
Specifically the boot parameters I am changing:
– delete splasht
– change disable=lxF to disable=F

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by olsztyn.

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olsztyn wrote:

So is there a way to save these boot parameters changes except to edit grub.cfg directly on sdb antiX-Live-usb…

If you edit the Customize Boot (text menus) entry (hitting e and adding boot parameters before menus boot parameter, and then hitting F10), and go through all the steps hitting enter (setting default), it will save the options added in e at the end. That is what I usually do when I want to edit boot parameters without manually editing the grub.conf file, like on first boot of a freshly made live USB. I just have to patiently hit Enter to skip all options and then I end up having a Custom entry with the parameters I selected.
The only limitation this has is having to go through the menus each time.

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anticapitalista wrote:

UEFI text menu has an equivalent of F8 (save changes). It saves the previous chosen F options to the live grub.cfg file with the Title CUSTOMIZED Boot (or something like that)

Thanks for answering. This is good enough for most, as they only have to set their boot once (hopefully).

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Thank you Xecure!
Works exactly as you describe. My misunderstanding. I just need to go through all steps of text menus, not just edit boot entry. Good enough for me.
Thanks and Regards Xecure and anti…

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