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Problems Moving Installation to Another Machine

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   fork
   

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   I'm trying to move my Slitaz installation to a 2nd machine. The new machine has 2 Win 7 OSs, but no Linux or GRUB. I created a partition for Slitaz and cloned it to the drive, but found Win Bootmgr wasn't going to work with it. Couldn't figure out an easy way to install GRUB alone, so I created another partition and installed Ubuntu. Now I had GRUB working, but Slitaz would only boot part way and stop with a blinking cursor.

   Next I tried to make an ISO of my original install, with Write-iso. It seemed to work at first, but concluded with an error that it couldn't mount the CDROM, in order to get the kernel. The CD was indeed mounted and I tried putting the Live CD in the drive, but still got the same error.

   I'd like to install the program and have a bootable CD. I wasn't sure whether I could use the Slitaz Installer to install the image from the bootable CD.

   Thank you,

   Darin

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   with win7 you can use easybcd boot loader. It worked for me.
   Cloning the slitaz partitaiton may or may not work, depending on driver issues between different machines. I think you could make it work.
   Also, you may have to make sure that it is using the right partition numbers... this is where you may struggle a bit.
   With ubuntu the pb is that is uses grub2 which i do not think works with ubuntu.

   I have struggled to get a boot cd of my installation, for the reason you are saying and some others, but it worked (i think the command is tazlito gen-iso but it might be gen-distro check the documentation, and per Pacal Bellard advice i had to add the lowram package for it to boot without crashing in my case)

   It seems the best way would be to create a liveusb with tazusb, tough I never used it.

   In a recent post someone wrote: (you may want to try that):

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   The procedure: boot with the CD, copy the content of the CD to the hard-drive directory, name it ,,slitaz". Then set up the right details while you are booted. Then use ,,tazusb writefs". After that you delete the rootfs.gz-file in ,,slitaz" and replace it with /rootfs.gz.
   Add the right GRUB config expression into the menu.lst of /boot/grub:

   root (hd0,1) - or what you have
   kernel /slitaz/boot/bzImage root=/dev/ram0 rw nomodeset
   initrd /slitaz/boot/rootfs.gz
   boot

   If there is a problem when you use it look into /var/log/messages.

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   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Correction: i was meaning: grub2 does not work with slitaz, (it works with ubuntu).

   However with Windows XP or 7 i installed grub4dos which then starts from the windows partition and from within grub4dos i start slitaz.

   For Windows 7 Easybcd was required and it was a little bit trickier to make it work, I had to play a bit with it but it ended up working. I seem to remember that easybcd comes with its own version of grub4dos that I customised to start slitaz.

   Hope this helps

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Grub 2 works with Slitaz. I'm using it on my other computer with Slitaz. I'd really like to figure out the issue with the boot CD. From there, I'm assuming I can install it directly on the machine, if I should decide to.

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