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mcpderez
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding how this is supposed to work. I’ve searched the forum, read several threads and watched dolphinoracle’s video from AntiX-17 linked in the FAQ, but I might just have a wrong impression of how home persistence is set up.
Testing with my IBM ThinkPad T42 today, booting from a flash drive burned with AntiX-22_386_full.iso.
At the boot screen I use the function keys to select my Time Zone (F3), Persistence as persist_home (F5), and Console as 1024×768 (F7), then Enter to boot.I thought that I would be prompted to configure the size of a home persistence file, but instead what happens is I see a few blank lines below “found boot device” and then:
Look for persist device with label antiX-PersistThe screen clears and I see:
Could not find a partition with label antiX-Persist Please wait while existing partitions are found ... No suitable devices were found. Press <Enter> to continueI press Enter, the screen clears, returns to the antiX 22 (Grup Yorum) boot screen, this time it is at the run live scripts stage and again says:
Look for persist device with label antiX-PersistI looked in /var/log/live/initrd.log and it appears that persistence is being disabled because the USB drive is being considered read-only. I tried making it with both Balena Etcher and with dd and I get the same result. Is there some intermediate step I need to take between burning the drive and booting from it, is this a fault with the iso, or does it just not work how I expected it would?
/var/log/live/initrd.log:
Run custom code before reading boot codes: /live/custom/antiX/0.sh Width of screen in pixels 984 Try to set line length to 120 Using size 8 Set font to Uni2-TerminusBold16 setfont /live/locale/fonts/Uni2-TerminusBold16.psf -C /dev/console New screen width 128 @ 1.30 starting tsplash === initrd bootstrap ================================================== initrd init started at 0.06 seconds Welcome to antiX 22 (Grup Yorum) 32-bit! BusyBox v1.31.1 (2021-02-03 15:54:12 MST) multi-call binary. ntfs-3g 2017.3.23AR.3 integrated FUSE 28 initrd version: 8.30.14-x08 initrd built: Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:43:21 +0000 Total Memory: 493 M Used Memory: 35 M Linux kernel: 4.9.0-326-antix.1-486-smp Screen width: 128 Kernel arch: i686 Hardware: IBM 2373H12 Current boot codes: vga=791 persist_home tz=America/Chicago quiet splasht disable=lxF Found overlay Loading hardware specific modules ... Scan usb,cd devices. Look for boot file(s) antiX/linuxfs Filtered devices /dev/sr0 Retry for 15 seconds . Found new device(s) /dev/sda2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sda /dev/sr0 mount -t vfat -o umask=000,dmask=002,fmask=113,shortname=winnt,uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/sda2 /live/boot-dev mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sda1 /live/boot-dev Mounted boot device. Mounted device /dev/sda1 at /live/boot-dev boot device filesystem: iso9660 boot device model: USB Flash Disk Spent 1.65 seconds looking for boot file(s) antiX/linuxfs loop times: 0.15 BOOT_MP: /live/boot-dev SQFILE_DEV: /dev/sda1 SQFILE_MP /live/boot-dev Initializing random number generator ... Mount file /live/boot-dev/antiX/linuxfs at /live/linux mount -t squashfs -o loop,ro /live/boot-dev/antiX/linuxfs /live/linux sqfs_vid: === 0c8833e2fdf15aca1a9fa6ad6a57081d Updating grub config to 2.0 Using BIOS UUID: LD_PATH: /live/linux/lib:/live/linux/lib/i386-linux-gnu:/live/linux/usr/lib Persistence was requested on a read-only boot device Will search for a persistence device with the label antiX-Persist ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Begin Mount persistence device (if needed) Look for persist device with label antiX-Persist Retry for 10 seconds ................... Spent 10.74 seconds looking for persist file(s) antiX/homefs.new antiX/homefs loop times: 0.18 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 tsplash clear Could not find a partition with label antiX-Persist Please wait while existing partitions are found ... mount -t vfat -o umask=000,dmask=002,fmask=113,shortname=winnt,uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/sda2 /tmp/mnt No suitable devices were found. Press <Enter> to continue Disable persistence tsplash on Loaded 10 module(s) nls_utf8 nls_cp437 uas usb_storage shpchp dm_crypt dm_mod overlay battery fotg210_hcd Create aufs ram tmpfs at /live/aufs-ram (366 MB) /bin/mount -t tmpfs -o size=366m,noatime tmpfs /live/aufs-ram Mount overlayfs at /live/aufs mount -t overlay overlay -o lowerdir=/live/linux,upperdir=/live/aufs-ram/upper,workdir=/live/aufs-ram/work /live/aufs Load microcode Found one video display device Create /media tmpfs at /live/aufs/media (10 MB) /bin/mount -t tmpfs -o size=10m,noatime tmpfs /live/aufs/media Create /run tmpfs at /live/aufs/run (1111 MB) /bin/mount -t tmpfs -o size=1111m,mode=755,nodev,noatime tmpfs /live/aufs/run Create /live tmpfs at /live/aufs/live (100 MB) /bin/mount -t tmpfs -o size=100m,mode=755,noatime tmpfs /live/aufs/live Run custom code before: /live/custom/antiX/0.sh mount --move /live/aufs-ram /live/aufs/live/aufs-ram mount --move /live/boot-dev /live/aufs/live/boot-dev mount --move /live/linux /live/aufs/live/linux Run custom code after: /live/custom/antiX/0.sh Run custom code before running live init.d scripts: /live/custom/antiX/8.sh The initrd init program took 24.23 seconds ====================================================================== cp /live/config/tsplash/progress /live/aufs/live/config/tsplash/progress cp /live/config/tsplash/tsplash.log /live/aufs/live/config/tsplash/tsplash.loginxi -Fxz:
System: Kernel: 4.9.0-326-antix.1-486-smp arch: i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM v: 3.0.1 Distro: antiX-22_386-full Grup Yorum 18 October 2022 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Machine: Type: Laptop System: IBM product: 2373H12 v: ThinkPad T42 serial: <superuser required> Mobo: IBM model: 2373H12 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: IBM v: 1RETDOWW (3.20 ) date: 02/27/2006 Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 9.8 Wh (100.0%) condition: 9.8/47.5 Wh (20.7%) volts: 11.9 min: 10.8 model: SANYO IBM-08K8193 status: full CPU: Info: single core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 arch: M Banias rev: 5 cache: 1024 KiB note: check Speed (MHz): 1000 min/max: 600/1500 core: 1: 1000 bogomips: 1998 Flags: sse sse2 Graphics: Device-1: AMD RV200/M7 [Mobility Radeon 7500] vendor: IBM ThinkPad T4x Series driver: radeon v: kernel arch: Rage 7 bus-ID: 01:00.0 Display: server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: radeon resolution: 1024x768~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI R100 (RV200 4C57) x86/MMX/SSE2 DRI2 v: 1.3 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC97 Audio vendor: IBM ThinkPad T4x Series driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.5 Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-326-antix.1-486-smp running: yes Network: Device-1: Intel 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet vendor: IBM Thinkpad driver: e1000 v: 7.3.21-k8-NAPI port: 8000 bus-ID: 02:01.0 IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter driver: ipw2100 v: git-1.2.2 bus-ID: 02:02.0 IF: eth1 state: down mac: <filter> IF-ID-1: irda0 state: down mac: <filter> Drives: Local Storage: total: 71.85 GiB used: 5.7 MiB (0.0%) ID-1: /dev/sda type: USB model: General USB Flash Disk size: 14.55 GiB ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: USB 3.2Gen1 size: 57.3 GiB Partition: Message: No partition data found. Swap: Alert: No swap data was found. Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: 36.0 C Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 0 Info: Processes: 124 Uptime: 10m Memory: 493.2 MiB used: 122.9 MiB (24.9%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1563 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.19Note the flash disk in /dev/sdb was not connected during my tests. I was just using it to get the initrd.log and inxi output over to a machine with network access since I’m having issues getting on wifi with the Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter built-in to the ThinkPad.
- This topic was modified 5 months, 3 weeks ago by mcpderez.
BobC
I think you need to boot from your dd or balena flashdrive with antiX and then use Live USB Maker to burn a normal antiX flashdrive. When you boot from that one, it should have the persistence options.
christophe
Is there some intermediate step I need to take between burning the drive and booting from it, is this a fault with the iso, or does it just not work how I expected it would?
This is expected behavior. antiX sets up the live-usb to be read/write, unlike dd, etc. To get a live-usb with persistence (which is fully-functional, upgradable, etc.), do as BobC wrote:
boot from your dd or balena flashdrive with antiX
then use Live USB Maker to burn a normal antiX flashdrive. When you boot from that one, it [will] have the persistence options.
confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019
Thanks! That did it. I couldn’t fit two flash drives I was willing to overwrite in the tightly spaced ports, so I had to use a VM to boot the iso on a different computer and start live-usb-maker to create the drive. I was not successful in finding a way to use just one flash drive on the T42 with only 512MB of RAM. Either I could load an AntiX 17.5 core toram so it would see the flash drive as writable (but then not see a live image to use) or I could boot from the flash drive and then not be able to write to it.
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