[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] USB stick has to be labeled FEDORA when using Boot Helper CD, persistent storage not used

[Ton van Overbeek]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Caroline Meeks <solutiongrove at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Ton van Overbeek <tvoverbeek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> When using the latest Boot Helper CD
>> (http://people.sugarlabs.org/sdz/soas-boot.iso) the USB stick has to
>> be labeled
>> FEDORA, otherwise the boot hangs.
>> When you created the stick with liveusb creator and included a
>> persistent storage on the stick, this persistent storage
>> will *not* be used when booting via the CD (reason: the initrd from
>> the CD is used and it uses the USB stick as an
>> overlay, the extra overlay needed for the persisten storage is not
>> used, since the CD does not know the label/UUID
>> for the persistent storage file).
>
> I just tested booting from CD plus USB and it seemed to use persistent
> storage ok.  Can you confirm its not remembering things when you boot with
> the boot helper CD.  This is an important bug if it exists and a tricky one
> if its not consistent.
>
> Thanks,
> Caroline

It does work as you describe.
When getting my original USB stick to boot with the boot helper CD I had only
renamed the stick, but not changed the relevant part of the overlay
name to FEDORA.
Today I reran liveusb-creator *after* labeling the stick as FEDORA.
Now the persistent overlay was created with the correct name and SoaS remembers
my settings and the journal between boots with the boot helper CD.
Updated the wiki page http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick accordingly.

Ton