How to boot Xenialpup iso from USB stick?[Abandoned]

[williwaw]

duplicate ID's was the result.

the ID's are uuids? I believe gparted can assign new uuids to the partition in question, you would also need to edit liming .cfg to match.

but perhaps better would be to use a partition label in place of uuids. A label can be made after the fact with gparted. Highlight your install partition and look under the "partition" dropdown at the top for the "label file system" entry (the partition must be unmounted to perform the operation)

the limine.cfg stanza can be edited to use labels something like

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:Fossapup
    COMMENT=
    PROTOCOL=linux
    TEXTMODE=yes
    KERNEL_CMDLINE=psubdir=/fossapup pmedia=ataflash
    KERNEL_PATH=fslabel://F1/fossapup/vmlinuz
    MODULE_PATH=fslabel://F1/fossapup/initrd.gz

in this example from a fossapup install on my internal disk, the fossapup files are in a top level folder /fossapup, and the label I created with gparted is F1