Getting the save icon back

[HarveyH]

I remember something I used to do with puppy frugal hard drive installs. I would add another boot entry with pmedia=ataflash(?) (I'd lie about how the OS was installed!) so I could have a puppy that would *not* automatically save all the changes every time. A save icon would be on the screen and it would ask on reboot/shutdown. It worked great and was useful for testing things. I can't get that to work with BookwormPup. I tried ataflash, sataflash, usbflash, ideflash and other things. Does BWP64 just not do that like the other puppies would?

TL:DR:
How do I set up my hard drive (SSD) frugal install to ask me if I want to save changes and have that "Save" icon on the screen?

[bigpup]

Are you sure you are making the change in the correct boot loader config file?
Placing pmedia= in the correct place in the boot entry?
Notice the location in the entry mine is.

BookwormPup64 10.0.7, frugal install, on external USB drive.

It is working for me with the boot loader entry having pmedia=usbflash in the boot entry.

The drive is using Grub2 boot loader.

It is in the Linux line of the grub.cfg file.

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linux /bookwormpup641007/vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash pdrv=b0f092c5-6a1c-4e04-b9d8-ddbeb91d4ab7 psubdir=/bookwormpup641007 pfix=fsck,fsckp,trim TZ=EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0

So try making it pmedia=usbflash in the boot loader menu entry.

I have used that for any type drives and it has always worked.

For it to work. Do need to do a complete reboot.

[HarveyH]

Did exactly that pmedia=usbflash. No joy. No save icon. No asking if I want to save when I reboot/shutdown.
All writes going immediately to the drive. Not the end of the world, I guess. The OS does have that backup save folder option if I want to try something, so meh. On the chance that the pmedia=usbflash option only works with a savefile (not a folder) I tried a setup like that. No joy.
Oh well.

[williwaw]

Did exactly that pmedia=usbflash. No joy. No save icon. No asking if I want to save when I reboot/shutdown.

to test if you are making the edit in the correct place,
change the title line of the stanza and make sure you are seeing/choosing the edited title when you boot

[HarveyH]

yes, here is the entire entry:

menuentry "BookwormPup64 Save on SDD3" {
linux /vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash pfix=fsck,fsckp psave=sdd3
echo "Loading ${ucode_parm} /initrd.gz"
initrd ${ucode_parm} /initrd.gz
}

[bigpup]

What specific version of BookwormPup64 are you using? Is it version 10.0.7?

Need to see what pupmode you are running in.

The program Pup-Sysinfo ->Sys-Files ->PupState will tell you.

What does it show as pupmode being used?

Also what is the exact name of the save file or folder you are using?

[Clarity]

What is the exact 'partition-name' and the name of the save file or folder on the partition you are using for your session-save?