LL 3.8 in persistent mode won't boot

[Moltke]

Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life and a wondeful 2020!

Today I created a LL 3.8 Live USB with persistence enabled using rufus, I've done this with other distros and they work just fine. But when presented with the boot screen and hit Start Linux Lite nothing happens and the countdown restarts. Pressing tab to configure boot parameters I removed quiet so I could see  any error which I did see

Code:

/casper/vmlinuz ... invalid parameter: No such file or directory.

So this is what is preventing the OS to start. I tried a few combinations but none worked. Thing is the file is there but not sure what the problem is.  Also, I noticed there's a separate dir in the USB called casper-rw and can't access its contents, might that be the problem?
This is the contents fo the isolinux.cfg

Code:

# MENU HIDDEN
# MENU HIDDENROW 8
MENU WIDTH 78
MENU MARGIN 15
MENU ROWS 8
MENU VSHIFT 7
MENU TABMSGROW 13
MENU CMDLINEROW 13
MENU HELPMSGROW 16
MENU HELPMSGENDROW 29

label live
  menu label Start Linux Lite
  menu default
  kernel /casper/vmlinuz
  append  file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper persistent initrd=/casper/initrd.gz quiet splash --

label xforcevesa
  menu label Start Linux Lite in safe mode
  kernel /casper/vmlinuz
  append  file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper xforcevesa nomodeset persistent initrd=/casper/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram rw noapic noapci nosplash irqpoll --

label check
  menu label Check Install Media
  kernel /casper/vmlinuz
  append  boot=casper integrity-check persistent initrd=/casper/initrd.gz quiet splash --

label memtest
  menu label Run memtest (memory tester)
  kernel /isolinux/memtest
  append -

label hd
  menu label Boot the first hard disk
  localboot 0x80

label restart
        MENU LABEL Restart
        COM32 reboot.c32

I think editing this file might do the trick but not sure how or what to change though. Any help/advice is great appreciated. Thanks in advance for your answers

[valtam]

Use the recommended, mkusb. See Help Manual for the tutorial.

[Moltke]

Use the recommended, mkusb. See Help Manual for the tutorial.

Thanks [member=2]Jerry[/member] using mkusb did the trick. Just one thing, in the tutorial there's a couple of things that might confuse some people:
1. Instructions for installing mkusb are missing one step: they instruct to add the mkusb/ppa and install it right after without updating the sources which as you know won't work and actually will show an error stating that apt can't find the pkg.



2. While the app at first seems to run as a GUI at the end of the tutorial the cli one is showed, don't know if it worked for you that way but for me was always cli, didn't even showed up in the menu, I didn't use LL 4.6 though, so maybe that's why.
Apart from that it worked like a charm and in a matter of minutes everything was done and I'm currently writing this from FF in LL 3.8 in persistent mode

[valtam]

Good stuff. Yes, the Manual always relates to the latest Series.

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