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For a couple of months I have used Xubuntu 20.10 wich i boot from a Live USB. I have a computer with Windows 10, and some days I use hardware that only works in Windows so I need the hard drive for Windows. I do feel Xubuntu is a better OS when I need to use internet, so I made a live USB with Xubuntu 20.10 but created it from the "tool" Rufus wich i ran from Windows 10. That USB with Xubuntu 20.10 have worked very well, and to speed up the system and to increase life time for my USB-memory i often boot and use the parameter /( or boot option "toram" ). I did actually switch the expression "quiet splash" to the word "toram" and I could see that files was copied from the USB-memory to computers RAM. There was also a third good thing with this, The fact that I could use the USB-port for something else. I have now downloaded Xubuntu 21.04 and used Rufus to make a live USB with Xubuntu 21 ( just like I did with Xubuntu 20.10 ). But when i try too boot from the USB with Xubuntu 21 it never works with the option / parameter "toram". However it works to run Xbuntu 21 from this USB-memory without copying to RAM, i did try different ways to create the new live USB. First i told Rufus to write the iso with option iso, and then i tried the option dd, but none of them gave a USB-memory that worked with "toram".

Is there something I could do different when creating this USB that could give better chance to create a USB that also works with "toram" parameter, or is it meant that Xubuntu 21.04 should no longer work for live-sessions started with the "toram" boot-option ??? ( I have used this method successfully more than hundred times when I started Xubuntu 20.10 from a Live-USB, and with the same computer ).

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Rufus with 21.04

I understand Rufus 3.14 Beta is required with 21.04, it can be downloaded here: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases .

I gave 21.04 a try with Ventoy and toram worked okay, but grub.cfg is not so easy to edit with Ventoy.

Rufus 3.14 worked for me with toram and default settings and Rufus' grub.cfg can be easily modified.

For more info see: error: symbol 'grub_register_command_lockdown' not found when installing Ubuntu 21.04 in BIOS mode

C.S.Cameron
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