Hi guys. I am using Kicksecure on a virtual machine. Host is ubuntu. I really like ubuntu. in the documentation you say Kicksecure used to work on ubuntu, but you chose debian because of potential problems with canonical. in the documentation you say grub-live can work on ubuntu /wiki/Grub-live#Compatibility, but I tried installing it on ubuntu, mint 22 and kubuntu and grub menu item does not appear. please help me what I should change in code to make it work on ubuntu. I would like to be able to run live mode for the whole system. this could be an additional defense for those using Kicksecure on an ubuntu host. thank you
I figured out grub. live menu came up. but it wouldn’t load anything. I installed dracut and live mode started system, but data is saved to disk after a reboot
for the sake of experiment, I decided to uninstall plymouth. system started only in console. but there live mode worked - all installed packages were deleted after reboot! can you tell me how to customize plymouth so that graphical environment live mode works like in console with plymouth removed? After typing startx or install and start ligthdm, graphical environment starts and the live mode works. but how to run this without uninstalling plymouth? but I am already very satisfied 
I tried it on mint and kubuntu - if remove plymouth, live mode works in all ubuntu distros! that’s fantastic!
wow security-misc works on ubuntu too. and tirdad and sdwdate
i can not run live mode from ram to ubuntu 24.10 - live mode always run from disk 
dracut installed. please tell me what to do?
Thanks for the bug report!
Won’t fix. No development effort will be spent on fixing Ubuntu compatibility.
Consider this unsupported.
Wiki updated just now.
This package is potentially compatible with many Linux distributions such as Debian.
but maybe someone will be interested in this. I would appreciate it. my experience: system won’t boot on linux mint if disk is encrypted by luks:
dracut-initqueue: starting timeout script
Could not boot. Starting dracut-energency.service - Dracut Emergency Shell… Warning: “/dev/disk/by-uuid/88a34338…823e” does not exist
Generating “/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt”
If I run kubunta 24.10 with an luks, live mode run from disk, not ram. I don’t see any errors in logs, so not sure what exactly to look for and try. I always installed dracut - otherwise live mode doesn’t start at all. Could you please advise - if live mode run from disk, where could problem be? I would be very grateful!!! Or maybe someone more experienced can try running live mode on kubuntu or ubuntu 24.10 with luks. I am not a very experienced linux user
hi friend. i checked grub-live on kde-neon - it works.
write in grub:
#GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=30
and sudo update-grub to add grub-live in grub menu. install grub-live. don’t install dracut or uninstall plymouth. reboot and select live mode. if you see it
Begin: waiting up to 180 secs for any network device to become available
ipconfig: frommedia: siocgifindex: no such device
ipconfig: no sevices to configure
sleeping 180 seconds before retryng getting a DHCP lease
or black screen - write in grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“ip=dhcp”
and update sudo update-grub
done
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Wow!! Thanks!! It works! grub-live works on ubuntu 24.04 and 24.10 with luks 
dracut issues (specifically if using Ubuntu) are unspecific to Kicksecure.
Need to be resolved as per:
dracut issues fixing must be done before installing grub-live.
Maybe you’ll find something useful here:
2 posts were split to a new topic: Distribution morphing Ubuntu into Kicksecure (kicksecure-cli-host for Ubuntu)
ip=dhcp in grub solves problem of waiting for dhcp only in a virtual machine. to work on ubuntu host, you need to edit script /etc/grub.d/11_linux_live and remove search network devices GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="$GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX boot=live plainroot union=overlay noeject nopersistence" then live mode run very quickly in ubuntu
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