Public bug reported:
This might be more a wishlist item, but I found the mechanism for getting
Xubuntu live started in persistent mode using a 'casper-rw' USB drive to be a
bit unwieldy:
(0) as an aside, I think the initial boot splash should include a message like
'press any key for boot options'
(1) You have to hit F6, then realise you need to press ESC because it pops up a
menu of APIC related items, then you take a second to realise you can edit the
kernel boot command because the cursor is at the far right of the screen, then
you have to type space persistent and press ENTER to boot
(2) there is no feedback for quite a few seconds that pressing ENTER actually
worked, other than the fact that the keyboard no longer does anything
This is just my opinion, but I think that starting in persistent mode
would be a common enough use case that it might have its own main menu
item like 'Start Xubuntu in live persistent mode'; notwithstanding that,
I found a wiki page describing how to remaster your own disks. But as a
frequent user of Xubuntu as a rescue disk it would be handy to not have
to do that.
The menu item might also have a help prompt to insert a USB with a ext3
filesystem labelled 'casper-rw'
** Affects: casper (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Minor usability quibbles starting Xubuntu in persistent mode
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