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I'm still having difficulty getting persistence to work on Xubuntu 9.04;
casper version is now 1.173. I still have the same fundamental race
condition problem - the casper scripts have completed by the time the
USB subsystem has finished initialising itself and any USB storage
devices have
Thank you for committing the fix. Using the files from the daily live
cd for 20090629, I am able to make bootable pendrive with persistence
using instructions found at http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-install-
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* Backports from trunk to fix persistence:
- Do not use mode= when mounting /cow using persistent mode (LP: #219192).
- Skip remounting read-only in try_mount
Thank you!
I have now tested and it does fix my problem.
I have used the hardy daily live CD and created a bootable USB stick with the
USB start-up disk creator in Ubuntu 9.0.4
I can now boot my work laptop from the USB and I get persistence.
Are the daily 8.0.4.3 builds included in the
I have reproduced the boot into busybox error with the persistent
keyword with the hardy 8.04.2 livecd and can confirm that the daily
livecd with build id 20090622.1 (from http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/hardy
/daily-live/) containing casper 1.132ubuntu0.3 boots successfully with
the persistent keyword
Accepted casper into hardy-proposed, the package will build now and be
available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!
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To clarify, I am experiencing identical problem as computer_freak_8.
Cannot find anything at all (elsewhere on the web) about this further
complication after fixing initrd.gz. From my observation and other info
I have found, it appears to be after the kernel finishes it's work, and
boot scripts
Finally got around initrd.gz problem--thank you Flipside Tech for
posting that. Still stopping dead every time at Begin: Mounting root
file system... then dropping to BusyBox.
Info:
Ubuntu 8.04.2
older compaq with Intel Celeron 2.6GHz
768M RAM (16M shared to video)
Ubuntu 8.04 Works fine on
I tried Tim's fix and it did not work for me. I think I need to give up or go
into the details.
I have tried to use the USB creator in Ubuntu 9.0.4 to create a xubuntu 8.0.4
USB. I think it does not hold together?
I could try the same procedure with ubuntu 8.0.4 and leave the x factor
out for
On 7 May 2009, at 9:40 am, vikjon0 wrote:
I tried Tim's fix and it did not work for me. I think I need to give
up or go into the details.
It could be that your USB subsystem takes more than 25 seconds to come
up, which would explain why it works for me and not for you. But I
don't
OK.
I am pretty sure I have the same problem as Tim.
It just loops finding the casper-rw device 5 times
I spent quite some time testing both manual fixes and different version of
initrd.gz.
I finally realized that I could read the casper.log with one of 5 unix commands
I remember from
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@computer_freak_8 - which version of *buntu are you using? It really
shouldn't be needed for 8.10 :)
Anyway, I suppose the casper script refers to this:
The fix is to unpack the initrd.gz file, edit the file 'scipts/casper'
(to remove the 'mode=755' from the mount cowdevice line for
the
@Vincent - Thanks for that. I will try it soon.
I am using Ubuntu (Eee) 8.04.1. I have tried the initrd.gz file from
FlipsideTech, as well as the one from Adam Porter - neither worked for
me.
I will try this soon, and then report back.
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@computer_freak_8 - I believe that's the one, yes (it's a while ago
though). If I'm right, it's included in the 8.10 ISO. I did get 8.10 to
work, except for on one machine, where I also couldn't get previous
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@Vincent - Thanks for the fast response. I am unsure of what that poster
referred to as the casper script - where is it? Do I replace it with
what is posted, or do I append to it? Will a copy paste work, or will
I need to take out the numbers at the beginning of the lines? My guess
is to append,
Hello,
I, too, am having issues with the persistent feature.
I have tried both of the initial ramdisk files posted here for Ubuntu
(by FlipsideTech and Adam Porter), and I am still getting BusyBox. I
want to also mention that when I used the file from Adam Porter, it gave
me a Kubuntu splash
On 21 Oct 2008, at 3:45 pm, Evan Dandrea wrote:
Tim,
Can you try the latest daily-live CD [1] and report back on whether or
not the problem still persists for you?
I haven't tried the daily live CD, but I have tried the Xubuntu 8.10
release live CD, now that it's out, and I still have
I think there's something else going on, too. I can't get persistence
to work either, and I've built an initrd with the latest casper in it,
but it still doesn't work. It never finds the casper-rw or home-rw
devices. Having set -x in the casper script to get some debugging info,
I see that when
OK, so I've made a nasty hack change to my casper script, and that seems
to solve the race condition problem. It just loops finding the casper-
rw device 5 times, waiting 5 seconds before each try, before it gives
up. It only does this if PERSISTENT is set.
This has fixed the problem for me,
Tim,
Can you try the latest daily-live CD [1] and report back on whether or
not the problem still persists for you?
Thanks
1: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live
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The initrd.gz is updated for 8.10, however, I still have this problem
with the fourth and fifth alpha (Xubuntu). Is this the same problem or
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Does anyone know where I can get an iso with the daffydd initrd.gz
included. I just haven't been able to insert it into an iso that I can
burn a CD from. I need this badly for anti virus protection. I know how
to configure ubuntu to be 99% virus proof without a virus scanner if I
can get a
Any chance of an 8.04.2 release with this bug fixed. It is that
important.
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If only that updated casper had been uploaded to Hardy and released with
8.04.1. :(
Well, in the meantime, here is an initrd.gz from 8.04.1 with Dafydd
Walters' changes applied to scripts/casper.
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[ Evan Dandrea ]
* Do not use mode= when mounting /cow using persistent mode (LP: #219192).
[ Colin Watson ]
* Support ?= (set value but don't mark as seen) preseeding syntax for
Arafat, why are you mounting an iso and stuff? Which procedure have you
followed for previous versions of Ubuntu to get a persistent USB drive?
If you followed the right procedure, you should just be able to follow
it again and at the end overwrite the initrd.gz by FlipsideTech:
I simply put the Live CD, put the USB flash drive and wrote persistent on
the prompt.
And that was it!
Well I needed to put the Live CD every time put that was fine for me.
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Then it's quite obvious it didn't work. Has it ever worked for you with
previous versions of Ubuntu (i.e. versions without this bug)? You need
to partition the USB drive with a casper-rw partition and what not. I
advise you to do a search for a tutorial on how to use Ubuntu
persistently with a USB
Hi vincent,
i have been trying to get this to work with a loop back file, but am
having the same issue with busy box even with using the new initrd,
should the procedure still work with a casper-rw loopback file? I have
formatted it as ext3 and it is in the root of the key
I have followed the
I used the pendrivelinux
instructionshttp://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/05/08/usb-ubuntu-804-persistent-install-via-the-live-cd/and
it worked.
Sure, I formatted with fdisk, setup my partitions etc. and it worked.
Let me repeat it again: before hardy came out, I was using persistent mode
with my usb
@andi - sorry, I have no experience using loopback files...
@Arafat - ah, it looks like that tutorial already incorporates a
workaround for this fix (i.e. steps 19-21 take care of replacing the
initrd.gz). You should then just be able to insert a USB drive (no
LiveCD needed at this point), boot
I used the tutorials on pendrivelinux with a tutorial on the ubuntu wiki
pages to get a live CD and a usb stick working together.
Because I cannot boot from USB sticks on the different pcs I am
frequenting.
The point is, I am not a linux expert. I tried to use that tutorial only
because it
Ah, OK, now I understand what you're trying to do.
I'm curious though: how did you get it to work with Feisty? There was a
bug with Feisty, more difficult to work around than this one, that also
didn't make persistence work.
Anyway, I'm afraid I don't know how to help. Even if you have the new
that I dont know.
I downloaded the iso and burned and it worked.
In any case would be nice if you could fix this, in the meantime Ill use my
BartPE Windows Live CD.
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Thanks anyway, I will have a play with some older versions and see what
happens!
Thanks Andi
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I tried the whole night to get a bootable iso. No no..
For me it's still a bug.
Anyway I didn't succeed, I am frustrated and this is not a workaround.
mounting an iso, unpacking a cpio file packing it again and trying to
figure out how to make a bootable iso with a buggy mkisofs.. WTH!! As
usual
Evan, Can we assume that this bug will be fixed (in hardy)? I see that its
assigned to you.
The workaround is nice and easy but shouldn't be considered as a fix.
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All the pcs I'm using can't boot directly from USB so I need to use the boot
CD.
I guess I need to unpack the ISO change the initrd and repack it again.
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Devs -- can you confirm?
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that would be great!
I was reading through the thread yesterday.. I got lost..
There are at least 2 initrd.gz packs and a dozen of instructions..
I want simply to use the distro with a usb stick! Not to feel ashamed about
my ignorance ;)
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Vincent: Arafat, it's quite simple actually. Just complete the steps
you'd complete normally to run Ubuntu from a USB stick, and then replace
the initrd.gz on your USB stick with the one posted above (one is for
Ubuntu, the other for Xubuntu). That's it - bug solved/worked around :)
Actually, I
Arafat, it's quite simple actually. Just complete the steps you'd
complete normally to run Ubuntu from a USB stick, and then replace the
initrd.gz on your USB stick with the one posted above (one is for
Ubuntu, the other for Xubuntu). That's it - bug solved/worked around :)
(The instructions were
could somebody please take care of this bug..
Its a very useful feature and for me nearly essential as I must use different
pcs.
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Oh yes please fix that bug.
It would be great.
Thanks a lot for the huge work you do everyday for Ubuntu...
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...I followed the guide at pendrivelinux.com ... strangely, the
syslinux.cfg DID NOT have all /cdrom tags removed, as I have seen in
other guides. Perhaps this is where I was going wrong.
DEFAULT /casper/vmlinuz
GFXBOOT bootlogo
APPEND file=/cdrom/preseed/xubuntu.seed boot=casper
Did I? Either I did it consciously but forgot about it, or it wasn't me
:P
I suppose you can only tell if persistence works is by making a change
and see if it is preserved after a reboot. The main problem that should
be solved by the initrd.gz is that it won't boot up, as far as I can
Vincent;
Your initrd.gz didn't work for me. I'm using the same USB stick I had
used to get 7.10 persistant. How would one tell if persistance is
working, besides rebooting?
~RjB
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Vincent;
I can confirm that the initrc.gz file you submitted fixes this issue (at
least for me) when using Xubuntu 8.04
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I tried to make a stick with the latest Hardy 64 version and I also copied the
modified initrd.gz file saved at
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to my stick. But the Busybox shows up again. This time saying: Beginn.
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I'm using the new initrd that was posted here and got it to work. But
the problem is it only works when it wants to! Sometimes it just doesn't
want to boot up and gives a hell of a lot of file error while starting
up, or the persistency disappears. One of the directories that I'm
suppose to be
I don't know the extent this would help you guys, but ...
Short version: I (and others, but not everyone) found that to make this
work best, and specifically to ensure persistence, it helps to use ext3
for the casper-rw partition (and I have used ext3 for both partitions
this time with 8.04: the
Thanks Mike.
I used these commands to format the partitions:
sudo mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n ubuntu /dev/sdX1
sudo mkfs.ext2 -b 4096 -L casper-rw /dev/sdX2
What commands do I use to make it bouth ext3?
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I use GParted Live CD to partition and format everything :)
(haven't used CLI for such for a long time, but I'm sure someone here does)
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By the way, for those looking to make Xubuntu persistent, I've attached
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A newbie needs your help! I installed USB Ubuntu following these steps:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/05/08/usb-ubuntu-804-persistent-
install-via-the-live-cd/
but I had this problem so I did everything again using FlipsideTech's initrd.gz
(is this actually working?) and I had the same
Oh, psypher, you might also want to look at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2893694postcount=133 , which is
a method to convert an existing persistent drive from syslinux to GRUB.
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psypher: “... can anyone point me to a really good live cd howto that
would apply to hardy but which uses grub as a bootloader instead of
syslinux?”
I use GRUB in building all my UFDs. Not an expert, but I do it and write up a
how-to for others. I'm currently updating this for Hardy, but
Thanks Dafydd, your method solved the problem for me. For some reason
though, I have to eject the floppy disk that contains GRUB for my normal
installation when I want to boot from my USB flash drive. This never was
an issue before.
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FWIW, I added mode=755 for the following reason. Sorry for the
unfortunate side effect of that change.
[ Evan Dandrea ]
* Add mode=755 to the tmpfs mount that becomes / in the unionfs mount
so that / in the live filesystem does not end up with 777 permissions
(LP: #206030).
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I am still having this issue on the proper hardy release. please can
someone post the correct commands to unpack and pack the initrd.gz file
AND a full copy or a working casper file for me to compare. simply
removing the only reference to mode=755 in the file (i find only one)
defenitely does not
psypher, you may consider taking casper-new-uuid out of the Hardy
package, and using that to repack your file. It is normally used to re-
generate UUIDs, but in this case may be adapted to instead swap out a
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i'll give it a try. commands to repack??
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ok just tried for the 100'th time to build and still i get busybox. As
far as I can tell i followed the instructions above perfectly. Either
way I thought that just deleting mode=755 should fix this? is there a
way to tell why I am getting dropped into busybox. maybe this isn't the
reason for my
ok I found my problem. now that I fixed the casper file I by accident left the
original live cd connected in vmware while booting the custom live system from
the virtual disks. Now the OS boots up AND persistence works. BUT i have to
have the cd in? Why would this happen, somewhere casper is
Attached is a new initrd.gz with the bug removed.
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I can confirm that this bug exists, and I concur with Tobias
Gruetzmacher that the cause is the 'mode=' mount option in the casper
script.
The fix is to unpack the initrd.gz file, edit the file 'scipts/casper'
(to remove the 'mode=755' from the mount cowdevice line for the
persistent case - see
Still in the final. The initrd tries to mount the casper-rw with
mode=755, which fails when casper-rw is ext2/ext3. Removing mode=77 from
the initrd makes it work again...
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