Persistence option didn't work with Ventoy out of the box. I made an WDL iso (slightly modified one I had from rockedge) and it booted in RAM successfully from Ventoy, for what it's worth. It would be interesting to see if WDL would boot without the special code. Wizard wrote: ↑ Sat 12:05 to note all of the iso files, 3 Puppy, 2 Ubuntu (the 'zillas'), 1 Win7 and 1 Win10 booted without problems.

I am sure that there is a reason, but I am not in a position of knowing. The current shutdown wizard used when a pristine boot is concluding does not allow a change in the drive selected in that final status screen before actual shutdown.

As such he may be the best in the community to know if this is a processing bug or if some other hardware condition exist that cause that phenomenon of not offering anything but an ISO9660 at shutdown even when other writable disk may be present. But, in the years, this has not been has done some very credible work in the start & shutdown areas of PUPs since I have been a member here. This, I feel, was always a bug in Puppy Linux shutdown processing as there are multiple other system disk locations for the session be saved. This seems to be happening on those systems which do not have a Linux partition present on the system's drive.

When using the PUPPY wizard for session saving, sometime you will not be offered the prevailing system disk drive. Puppy booted 'pristine', at shutdown allows the session to be save.

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