Knoppix 3.8.1 BUG FOUND: Not finding "home=" parti

[jrhall]

When you use the boot directive home="..." and it doesn't find your persistent partition that you created with the
knoppix util - the problem is with the "/etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig": in line 1037 it is looking at each mountable
partition for "ext3|ext3|reiserfs|...". The first "ext3" should be "ext2".

Workaround (for now):
Use mkfs.ext3 to create your "home/persistent" partition then run the knoppix utility that makes your image. Lmk if you have probs.
Cheers,
Joel

[JeffBonn]

Thanks, now I can mount a persistent home directory. However, I still can't use -my- persistent home directory. When I copy the old /home files that I had under Knoppix 3.7 into the new knoppix.img loopback filesystem, Knoppix won't give me a desktop.
It looks like I can't use all the customization that I had in Knoppix 3.7 unless I re-enter it bit by bit.

[jrhall]

You could boot in into runlevel 2 and then mount the old image and the new image. Then rsync -av the old image with the new one.