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Slitaz 4 boot problem

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• Started 11 years ago by harth
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   harth
   

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   I'm not new to Slitaz or Linux, but have only about a year of tinkering. I really like Slitaz 3 and wish to use Slitaz 4 on a circa 1998 HP, 850mHz processor and 256MB ram. Slitaz 3 was no problem to install or modify to my liking. I have not been able to get Slitaz 4 to boot. LiveCD and hard drive install (done manually) both hang with blinking cursor after Decompressing Linux...Parsing ELF...done. Booting the kernel. I've tried booting all versions of Slitaz 4.Thinking it may be a graphic card issue I changed from nvidia TNT2 to 3dfx voodoo3. same problem. I've tried modifying boot parameters with screen=text, nomodeset, noapic nolapic with nothing working. Has anyone else experienced this issue or would be able to help me out? I'll supply any other information regarding hardware as necessary. Thanks

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   harth
   

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   Adding dmesg.log for Slitaz 3 that boots properly. Slitaz 3 is on hda2 and Slitaz 4 is on hda1. When I try to boot up Slitaz 4 it gives the message Decompressing Linux...Parsing ELF...done. Booting the kernel. ending with a blinking cursor and I have to poweroff. No key combinations that I've tried get me anywhere.

   There are errors in the Xorg.0.log file regarding evdev.

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   Anonymous
   

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   Hello Harth, iguess you have tried the option vga=791 or something simular also?

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   harth
   

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   Hello ztealmax,
   yes, I've tried several vga=???, web boot, command line, etc. I've searched web and forum and have tried everything that I have read. I'm sure someone with more experience will be able to point me in the right direction. Until then I can at least continue to enjoy Slitaz 3. I guess my newbness shows as I can't seem to attach a file. And I thought that I wasn't compuilliterate. Keep getting a denied (mime) error when I try to upload it after changing permissions and extension.

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   giodesca
   

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   I installed slitaz for the first time, after trying it as live distro through USB.
   I copied on the USB the whole iso too, and pointed to it.
   Having:
   xp home /dev/sda1
   linux ubuntu /dev/sda2
   I selected as install destination /dev/sda2, and I checked install grub, and the Windows boot option. I unselect the format switch, because I wanted to preserve my files in my home path, on the linux filesystem.
   This worked before with othe Distro.
   When the installer said it finished succesfully, I reset my notebook.
   What happened was really unexpected.
   At begininning I had to face that both grub entries were not working:
   the Linux entry was pointing to (hd0,0) (wrong!) and getting grub to panic for wrong filesystem.
   At the same , for Windows the new grub config was pointing out to an (hd2,0) I never had. (and the chainloader +1 that I can't say was right or not)
   The result was no system booting.
   Checking with testdisk, I discovered what follows:
   the installer installed the system on the wrong partition (/dev/sda1 instead of /dev/sda2) of wrong type (NTFS instead of ext4 is a big difference..).
   I already reported how grub messed up its entries..
   These together makes me suggest you to add a number of checks to avoid this happening, I mean, what was left were two not running os, the ntfs filled with Linux files hierarchy and two only of the previous ntfs entries, one file archive and the big folder "Document and Settings" (I was very lucky, despite all, for that!!!), and the other filesystem umight be booting , but it was not my priority having slitaz working.

   Please improve the installer of this great and fast distro.
   Giorgio

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   Trixar_za
   

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   I'm contemplating if I should remove your post from this thread or not. It has nothing to do with the above posts and doesn't add anything that's even remotely helpful. Yes, it's a probably a bug, but that's why we have the bugs link above and an intergrated bugs reporting client. You could also have created your own thread for this or used the main thread about SliTaz 4.

   Also it sounds a little too much like sock puppetry for my liking... :/

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   harth
   

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   Hello everyone and anyone,
   I was hoping at least someone had experienced this problem and could point me in the right direction. As I can' get Slitaz 4 to boot I don't know of any logs, etc. I can look at to provide any information. Please pass on information if you have any.

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