Comment 37 for bug 84591

Looks like I've been a bit too optimistic. I found a Herd 3 image and applied the same procedure as described by Cal. The good news is that persistence works, and that the logs written onto casper-rw indicate that most of the hardware is correctly recognized and initialized. The bad new is that I've also seen some ugly error messages passing by, and that I don't get any login prompts in the virtual terminals. Which is really bad because X fails to start as well (that happens with all Ubuntu live CDs on my laptop). Sure, I could make a customized xorg.conf file on the casper-rw filesystem and see what happens, but as copying the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files is just a dirty hack, it may not merit further effort. Besides, I'm too tired to continue. Moreover, I discovered that my casper-rw partition is too small to make persistence really useful (gconf immediately fills it). Hope you guys can work out a cleaner solution for the persitence problem, though. I'm sure it would make a lot of people very happy.