#21 2019-02-20 16:47:29

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Re: [Tutorial] Making a legacy persistent Bunsenlabs Helium USB stick

From what I deduce, there seem to be some remnants of previous images of either linux or windows in the USB stick. From my experience, force installing mbr never gave me a problem in such situations.

However, the first error is a new thing for me. Whether it works of not, I can't tell it for certain. It's been a couple of days, did you try that USB stick? Did it throw any error?

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Re: [Tutorial] Making a legacy persistent Bunsenlabs Helium USB stick

I tried it.  On first boot it went as hhh said it would:

You'll see messages about your drives not mounting to /live/persistence, that's normal. The first time you boot, you'll see a brief cron job running, that's the persistence being configured.

It booted fine, but no persistence.  Er, rather, it gave me partial persistence one time -- it remembered the alternate conky I selected but it didn't remember the alternate background I selected -- but on subsequent reboots it didn't even retain the partial persistence.  I've been noticing on shutdowns it says it fails to unmount the persistence partition, maybe that's the problem.

FWIW I also tried a different USB stick using the above post's steps (which were virtually the same as yours anyway), and no persistence that way either.

Not super important.  I've been having to wait a few days for my replacement SSD and thought it would be nice to have some persistence while I wait, but it will be delivered tonight and I'll be back to an installation on my machine.