[SOLVED] Can't Save Changes on a Live USB

[Ed_P]

Ed, it worked! Thank you!!!

However, I couldn't disable "Secure Boot", because I can't find such a switch in the BIOS settings of this machine. That's why I abandoned my original plan for a dual- boot setup on the hard drive and decided to use a live USB instead.

Yes, that's correct. You don't need to disable it when booting from the USB drive. Sorry.

Now, how do I make "Save Changes" the default boot option on a UEFI machine?

In line 468 copy your changes= parm that you have in line 470 to it. Thus you will have:

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	options "changes=UUID:E8FB-6830/mysave.dat"

A negative to this approach is if you need to run an Always Fresh option you may need to remove the change. But not sure about that.

[donald]

@aus9
--> Can anyone explain why there is no windows 9? <--
I'm not sure if you're expecting an answer, howsoever:
I have heard they did not use the No.9 because they had the 9x numbering back in the Days.
(win 95 - 98)..might be true or not.

[George]

George

Not exact model but try this howto disable secure booting in bios
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fe ... 02s02.html

Just remember that Windows 8 onwards needs secure booting on to enable it to boot up.

Thanks, aus9! This documentation seems quite detailed, I'll check it out.

[George]

Ed, it worked! Thank you!!!

However, I couldn't disable "Secure Boot", because I can't find such a switch in the BIOS settings of this machine. That's why I abandoned my original plan for a dual- boot setup on the hard drive and decided to use a live USB instead.

Yes, that's correct. You don't need to disable it when booting from the USB drive. Sorry.

Now, how do I make "Save Changes" the default boot option on a UEFI machine?

In line 468 copy your changes= parm that you have in line 470 to it. Thus you will have:

Code: Select all

	options "changes=UUID:E8FB-6830/mysave.dat"

A negative to this approach is if you need to run an Always Fresh option you may need to remove the change. But not sure about that.

Ed, thanks a lot for your help. I changed line 468 and I'm all good.