Bug 27674

Summary: Live iso bootloader: Option to skip using existing persistence
Product: Mageia Reporter: Morgan Leijström <fri>
Component: Release (media or process)Assignee: Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Normal CC: mageia
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Morgan Leijström 2020-11-28 19:11:42 CET 
There is already the nice choice [F1] to boot original kernel :)

I suggest a similar choice to skip using an existing persistence partition.



___Use case examples:

* You or an update messed it up, but need to start now to just use urgently or to fix it

* You find it does not boot on some computer, and want to see if it works with non updated drivers

* Want to boot up to backup/restore/sync the memory folder, or change between stored versions of memory or a subfolder

* Want to test something and not store changes
Morgan Leijström 2020-11-28 19:12:25 CET

CC: sysadmin-bugs => mageia

Comment 1 Martin Whitaker 2020-12-09 12:43:32 CET 
With 8-beta2 you can do this by adding mgalive.overlay=ram on the boot command line.
Comment 2 Morgan Leijström 2020-12-09 14:15:32 CET 
Thank you. I will note this on the wiki :)
Comment 3 Morgan Leijström 2020-12-09 19:44:53 CET 
Noted. (not released yet)

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME

Comment 4 Mageia Robot 2024-04-25 08:09:02 CEST 
commit ecca6a561826c8242c09dd4dfc71e54e769fe6e2
Author: Jybz <j.biernacki@...>
Date:   Sat Apr 20 22:40:04 2024 +0200

    Updated to add boot option to temporarily disable persistence (mga#27674).
    
    - origin:
      https://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/dracut/current/SOURCES/0511-mgalive-A-module-to-mount-Mageia-Live-media.patch?r1=1649586&r2=1649975
    - mgalive: add boot option to temporarily disable persistence (mga#27674).
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 Commit Link:
   https://gitweb.mageia.org/software/mageia-dracut-conf/commit/?id=ecca6a561826c8242c09dd4dfc71e54e769fe6e2