Failure installing Ubuntu 24.04 on an USB stick

[Ralf Mardorf]

Guten Abend Volker,

"Many distros (like Ubuntu/MX/LinuxMint ...) provide feature for
persistence. This allows saving any changes you make to the live system,
so that they are still present the next time you boot to it. In normal
case, we create a separate partition to do this which is not so
flexible.
Now Ventoy brings a new feature here. You have no need to create any
partition, no need to add persistent boot parameter. Just put a
persistence data file in the 1st partition and tell Ventoy by the json
configuration, and that's all."
- https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_persistence.html

The good

thing is that if you use a fast USB stick on a fast USB port, the Live
Ubuntu flavour does run with excellent performance, all additionally
installed packages and user settings are restored.

The weaknesses

are that you have to be careful and after the Ventoy boot menu you need
to start the Ubuntu Live Flavour from the Ubuntu Live Flavour boot menu
before it auto-boots. When it boots automatically, the settings made by
the user are overwritten with the defaults of the Live Ubuntu Flavour,
but the additionally installed packages are still available. The
original kernel of the ISO is always booted, so that you cannot use the
advantages of a newly installed kernel with new hardware.

Regards,
Ralf