[solved] only default option after reboot from customize menu setup on 21 core

[Member robertklsz]

After a reboot from going through the Customize Boot setup only “antiX-21-runit x64-core (31 October 2021)” option is available.

No other option is displayed. None. Not even the original options such as: Customize Boot menu; Advanced Options; Language – keyboard – Timezone; …

I have done this many times with AntiX 19.5. Does not seem to work with AntiX 21.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by christophe.
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Do you save it after any changes?

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Yep, set to semi-auto or auto. Same result.

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I’m sorry, I meant the boot menu. There should be a place toward the middle of the boot sequence, when you make your last choice, to save the changes regarding the boot choices you made on a live system — I assumed this is what we are discussing.
Or are you speaking of peristence settings? (“Semi-auto” & “auto” are persistence save options, which are totally different.)

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Thanks for pointing this out, robertklsz.
I made a live-usb in virtualbox, and I see the same thing.
During my first boot (using grub menu), and saving at the end of the choices, I end up with only that ONE “choice” on the grub menu on the next boot. Nothing is saved. I’ll check to see if this is just runit of both of the core ISOs.

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Yes, sorry. Did save that.

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I made a “real” live-usb & ran the test on the sysvinit x64 core ISO. I got the same result. No options are present on the subsequent boots, not even the chance to use the text menus. (Also the option of which wm should be default is among the “first-run” menu choices, which isn’t applicable on the core edition.)

It definitely appears to be broken on the core ISOs, at the moment.

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Can you confirm that this only happens with antiX-21-core or antiX-21-net and not antiX-21-base/full?

Also, can you confirm that it only happens when choosing the second entry in the UEFI/grub drop down menu ie Customize boot (text menus).

Thanks

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Here’s a fix.

Customize boot (text menus) under grub should not appear on core/net isos.
If you never use that option, all should be fine.

If you are stuck like the first poster, try this.

1. Boot to ‘desktop’ using that one option.
2. Navigate to /live/boot-dev/boot/grub and open as root or sudo the file grub.cfg
3. Remove the Customize (text) entries
Something like this should be removed

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

4. Save changes and reboot.

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The above solution does not fix anything. There is no change in the menus. The one option is the same before and after the change in /live/boot-dev/boot/grub/grub.cfg.

I don’t understand the statement “Customize boot (text menus) under grub should not appear on core/net isos.” as this worked in AntiX-Core-19; Antix-Core-17 and if memory serves it also worked in Antix-Core-15.

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Because we have changed how grub operates on live antiX-21 since antiX-21 ships with 2 kernels and because we replaced the old text menu with a newer/better method.

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FWIW, robertklsz, perhaps change the contents of your live-usb’s /live/boot-dev/boot/grub/grub.cfg.
(Note: It’s something like /media/demo/antiX-live-usb/boot/grub/grub.cfg if accessed from another antiX system.)

Here’s an example:

#------------------------------------------------------------------
# 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.
#------------------------------------------------------------------

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

# search --no-floppy --set=root --fs-uuid %UUID%
set timeout=30
set gfxmode=1024x768
set gfxpayload="2048x2048;2048x1280;2048x1080;1920x1080;1680x1050;1600x900;1600x1200;1600x1050;1500x1000;1440x960;1440x900;1368x912;1366x768;1280x800;1280x720;1280x1024;1200x800;1024x768;auto"

set default=0

menuentry " antiX-21 x64-core (31 October 2021)" {
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splash=v disable=lx
initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
}

menuentry " antiX-21 x64-core toram" {
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splash=v disable=lx hostname=a21core tz=America/Chicago toram 
initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
}

menuentry " antiX-21 x64-core dynamic persistence" {
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splash=v disable=lx hostname=a21core tz=America/Chicago persist_all
initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
}

menuentry " antiX-21 x64-core static persistence" {
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splash=v disable=lx hostname=a21core tz=America/Chicago persist_static
initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
}

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

#menuentry " antiX-21 x64-core Failsafe" {
#linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splash=v disable=lx failsafe
#initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
#}

#menuentry "antiX-21 x64-core Create Bootchart" {
#linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splash=v disable=lx bootchart initcall_debug printk.time=y
#initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
#}

#menuentry " antiX-21 x64-core (1024x768)" {
#linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splash=v disable=lx
#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

It is simply grub from the core live-usb, that has pre-set boot options that I like. Obviously, you substitute what YOU like.

This is just an idea, for those who like to use core as a live-usb, and like to customize.

I figure that if one is using core, they should be comfortable setting boot parameters manually. 🙂

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Thanks Christophe! Your suggestion solved what I was trying to do by tweaking the Custom grub entry.

You see the last thing that you do in the custom menus is setup root and home persistence. Having done that my main question (that i guess i did not articulate very well) was how does one get back to that? How does one login to the new home and root?

If you take away that then one of the main reason to use the core iso’s seems lost.

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