Malaire, I suggest you withdraw your post. I made it clear that my complaint is the necessity to use a cheat code to achieve this behavior. Moreover, that still doesn't address the need to affect the boot process without entering stuff every time.

Latest ubuntu will have "Live CD - persistence" to deal with that. The writer argues eloquently: "Keep in mind that not everybody we want to convert to Ubuntu is a power user. I can pretty much guarantee that anything that looks like typing Scary Strings is going to turn people off, not on, no matter how 'powerful' it is behind the scenes."

Here's the wiki doc if you want to see the quote in context: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveCDPersis...t=%28livecd%29