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slny
May 4th, 2011, 08:29 PM
I followed the instructions here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent
and used usb-creator-gtk to make a live usb stick, selecting the option to create a casper-rw file for persisting changes.

However, after reboot, all changes were lost.

It seems that the grub entry needs a "persistent" added to the end:
menuentry "Try Ubuntu without installing" {
set gfxpayload=keep
linux /casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash -- persistent
initrd /casper/initrd.lz
}

Were the instructions wrong/incomplete or am I missing something else?

This posts also mentions needing to add persistent to grub.cfg:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10745015