Bug 707697 - liveusb-creator 3.11.1-1.fc15(noarch)-no persistence on live usb even though set with slider
Summary: liveusb-creator 3.11.1-1.fc15(noarch)-no persistence on live usb even though ...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 706122
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: liveusb-creator
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Luke Macken
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-05-25 17:46 UTC by satellitgo
Modified: 2016-09-20 02:42 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-05-25 18:01:22 UTC
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Description satellitgo 2011-05-25 17:46:51 UTC 
Description of problem:
no persistence on created live usb even though set with slider

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
liveusb-creator 3.11.1-1.fc15(noarch)
this was run before running liveusb-creator
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing dracut-009-11.fc15'
Using gnome3-shell 3.0.1 f15 fully updated


How reproducible:
use Fedora-15-Nightly-20110518.06-i686-Live-soas.iso
or Fedora-15-live-Desktop.iso

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
On Boot of USB
mountpoint /overlayfs does not exist
/run/initramfs/overlayfs: not mounted

No persistence of settings on reboot of USB


Expected results:
a working persistence file

Additional info:
Comment 1 Luke Macken 2011-05-25 18:01:22 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 706122 ***
Comment 2 Luke Macken 2011-05-25 18:04:11 UTC 
Updating to the fixed dracut locally won't do the trick, it needs to be on the live image as well.

Can you try again with today or tomorrows nightly?
Comment 3 satellitgo 2011-05-25 18:17:15 UTC 
how do I alter the live image if it has no persistence? Chicken and egg problem?
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