Live USB won't launch in persistent mode on all computers

[nk565]

I'm very new to Ubuntu (second day using it) so I may not know all the terms of what I'm trying to say.

I set up Ubuntu on a 32GB USB drive with a 25GB partition to save all my data on. This works fine on the computer that I set this up on (runs windows 7), and opens up to



and it saves all my data between sessions, etc.

Then I tried plugging it into my other computer (running windows 8 UEFI). After configuring the BIOS to have USB priority, it boots to



It doesn't give me an option to boot in persistent mode. It does start up if i select trial mode, but none of my data or partitions show up. I tried running boot repair, but it didn't seem to do anything. I also tried this on another Windows 7 PC (can't confirm right now, but I'm pretty sure it also used UEFI) and had the same issue.

Why do they boot to different screens, and how can I get my Windows 8 computera to boot in persistent mode?

[nk565]

I Just confirmed that the other Windows 7 PC also uses UEFI.

Edit: I just tried it on a vista machine that uses BIOS, it didn't help. But something else I noticed was that it does save data between session on other machines, but its not the same data that I had on the first machine. If I start live mode on any of the other three machines, it has one set of data. If I start it on the original machine, it has a different set of data. I have no idea where its storing the data for these other computers.

[nk565]

Looking around some more, my newest guess at the problem is that the casper-rw partition isn't working on any computer other than the original.

[searchfgold6789]

Did you create a separate partition yourself, or let the USB Disk Creator do its work? If you did the former, I would redo the USB disk and let the USB Creator do it automatically.

See more on UEFI booting here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
It seems that, for the most part, it recommends turning UEFI/QuickBoot/FastBoot/SRT/Smart Response Technology OFF in your BIOS.

[nk565]

Did you create a separate partition yourself, or let the USB Disk Creator do its work? If you did the former, I would redo the USB disk and let the USB Creator do it automatically.

The Disk creator made the partition, and I expanded it.

See more on UEFI booting here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
It seems that, for the most part, it recommends turning UEFI/QuickBoot/FastBoot/SRT/Smart Response Technology OFF in your BIOS.

It wouldn't boot at all at first. Then i turned off safeboot and it worked. But booting isn't the problem, it just doesn't seem to be booting to the right partition (I have no idea where its writing all the data).

[nk565]

Here is a picture of my boot settings



Also, because the UEFI page mentions it, my computer boots to this screen



But all the computers do because the disk is 32 bit.

[C.S.Cameron]

I'm very new to Ubuntu (second day using it) so I may not know all the terms of what I'm trying to say.

I set up Ubuntu on a 32GB USB drive with a 25GB partition to save all my data on. This works fine on the computer that I set this up on (runs windows 7), and opens up to



and it saves all my data between sessions, etc.

Then I tried plugging it into my other computer (running windows 8 UEFI). After configuring the BIOS to have USB priority, it boots to



It doesn't give me an option to boot in persistent mode. It does start up if i select trial mode, but none of my data or partitions show up. I tried running boot repair, but it didn't seem to do anything. I also tried this on another Windows 7 PC (can't confirm right now, but I'm pretty sure it also used UEFI) and had the same issue.

Why do they boot to different screens, and how can I get my Windows 8 computera to boot in persistent mode?

Try pressing any key when starting the boot and the first screen should appear, thus giving the option for persistence.

[nk565]

Try pressing any key when starting the boot and the first screen should appear, thus giving the option for persistence.

Actually I figured that out, it didn't help.

[C.S.Cameron]

Does one of the computers have a casper-rw partition on it?

A persistent thumb drive will use that rather than the casper-rw partition on the thumb drive.

Does the thumb drive have both casper-rw file and partition?

I'm wondering how there could be two sources of saved data and settings.

[nk565]

Does one of the computers have a casper-rw partition on it?

If any of them did, it would have to be the original computer because its the one thats different, but I know the original is using the USB's casper-rw partition because I see everything saving there.

Does the thumb drive have both casper-rw file and partition?

I think so,

I just don't know how it would save to the other partition (which was created when the live USB was), from what I understand nothing but the casper-rw partition should save anything.