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You know, like boot into the non-persistent (or sometimes persistent) USB like in a windows computer.

What about the upcoming M1X?

The graphic card is fried and I think that's what's causing the session to freeze every time after the computer warms up.

Things I've tried so far...

1. Adding radeon.modeset=0 to the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" in the file /etc/default/grub so that it reads:

   GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash radeon.modeset=0"
   

2. Adding radeon.modeset=0in cdrom/syslinux/txt.cfg as well as syslinux.cfg

3. Logging in "safe graphics".

Obviously, non of the above worked.

Appreciate any help to solve this issue. Thanks loads in advance!

UNetbootin & Ventoy (I can use any other tool).

BIOS : Insydeh20 | Rev. 3.5 | F.29

Meaning: without running sudo apt-get install x. (where x is the name of the app).

In Windows I'd download the app (x.exe). Save it on the USB. Then install it from the USB on the computer I want to install on.

How can I do that with Xubuntu?

This is what I would like to have on it...

1. Windows installation media and OS.

2. Xubuntu 18.04 LTS and Xubuntu 20.04 LTS...one persistent, and the other not...sometimes. And other times both persistent.

3. Unlimited storage.

Yes I did see this question. It started off promising, but it went nowhere, unfortunately.

EDIT: by "unlimited" I mean as much as the capacity of the USB would allow.

This to be spesific, from here.

So I've recently discovered that whether torom or not, Xubuntu 20.04 LTS (unlike 18.04) operates completely(?) on ram. If I unplugged the USB as soon as it boots up, I am able to open all applications and they all work normally. This is without toram.

So I was wondering...if I'm using non-persistent Xubuntu 20.04 LTS, does anything (like anything at all) save either temporarily or permenantly on the ram and be there when I end the session (restart the computer)? Is it technically possible? Or is the ram completely wiped by next boot up and it's physically impossible for anything to be there?

If I removed the SSD (or hard drive) from the laptop, and then plugged in the Xubuntu 20.04 LTS non-persistent Live USB and turned on the computer, would I be able to boot into it normally?

On Xubuntu 20.04 LTS live USB, I'm trying to add radeon.modeset=0 to the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" in the file sudo nano /etc/default/grub so that it reads:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash radeon.modeset=0"

and make that change permanent.

This is to prevent one of my discrete graphic cards (Radeon) from starting on boot.

BUT...

When I sudo update-grub after making the above change, it says failed to get canonical path of /cow...

1. How can I fix that?

2. Is it necessary to sudo update-grub after making the change in order for the change to stick?

3. The change saves successfully and doesn't give a read-only error. However, when I restart, the change is no longer there.

4. I don't want to make the USB persistent.

5. The USB was created with UNetbootin.

6. My main concern is the disabling of the discrete graphic card rather than the title of this question. So if the fix to the title is too involved and the disabling of the graphic card could be accomplished with less work, I'm all for it.

7. https://imgur.com/FCrUBHh

8. Thank you very much for any help! ?

I saved a text file on the desktop while booted in non-persistent Xubuntu 20.04 LTS live USB created with UNetbootin.

Naturally that file was gone when I restarted the computer and booted back into live Xubuntu.

Given that files are never really %100 deleted and parts of it will be saved in several places, what are my chances of recovering the file (or any part of it) if - hypothetically - I had all the resources needed to do the job?

I'm using Xubuntu 20.04 LTS live USB (non-persistent) and I just tried the toram option. It got stuck on the logo screen (or so it seemed) so I force shut down the computer.

Now I booted normally without toram and while I was working on the computer, I accidently removed the USB but to my surprise, everything is working normally. I mean, shouldn't it hang/freeze. Is this normal?

How can I make sure whether I'm running Xubuntu on ram or USB. And if it turns out to be from ram...how? Did I permenantly load Xubuntu to my ram? I thought everything gets deleted once I restart. If that's not the case, how can I delete is from ram?

Thanks for any help guys!

If data can always be recovered no mater how you erase it (correct me if I'm wrong), is it possible to encrypt the data before saving it so that an unencrypted part of it is never stored? Let's say a text file.

[Xubuntu 20.04 LTS | live USB]

I'm using Xubuntu 20.04 LTS live USB (non-persistent) and from it I want to create another Xubuntu 20.04 LTS live USB on another USB.

So far I've tried Mkusb and UNetbootin and both are not booting. Mkusb just boots into the system OS and UNetbootin shows that initial blue screen with "default" as the first option and the countdown, but loops there, counting down to 1 and going back to 10. This is the screen I see. Notice there should be more options.

I've tried both methods several times with same results.

Any pointers?

EDIT (UPDATE): Turned out the .iso file was corrupt. Redownloaded another one and it worked out. Thanks all.

I have a non-persistent Xubuntu 18.04 LTS live USB. I like to keep it non-persistent EXCEPT for a small change.

I'd like to add radeon.modeset=0 to the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" in the file /etc/default/grub so that it reads:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash radeon.modeset=0"

and make that change permanent.

This is to prevent one of my discrete graphic cards (Radeon) from starting on boot.

I wanted to disable one of my graphic cards from starting on boot so i created a Xubuntu 18.04 LTS with UNetbootin with persistance. Then I added radeon.modeset=0 to the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" through sudo nano /etc/default/grub

That did the trick but now I want to remove persistance but keep this change. How do I do that?

If there's an alternate way to permenantly add the line or disable the graphic card from changing on a non-persistent Live USB, that would would do too.

Also, I want this Live USB on a multi boot USB (I'm using Ventoy) so not sure how I can make the changes if it requires to first make persistance.

[Xubuntu 18.04 LTS live USB | Persistent | Created using UNetbootin]

Things I've tried:

1. Blank username and password

2. Username: ubuntu Password: blank

3. Username: xubuntu Password: blank

4. Username: xubuntu Password: xubuntu

Any solution to this? ?

Got one of those Chinese counterfeit USB flash drives. It says it's 128 GB but I know for a fact that it's nowhere near that.

In Windows there are several softwares which help you determine if the capacity the drive is communicating to the computer is true or not. They do that by writing and reading files onto it. A famous software for that is H2testw.

Is there a similar method in Linux? Or any method that would tell me the true capacity of the flash driver?

And after finding out what the true capacity is, how can I change (flash?) the drive to that capacity?

Thanks! ?