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Slitaz 4.0 Live USB hangs at boot

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• Started 12 years ago by rent0n
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   rent0n
   

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   Hi there,
   I just burnt a Slitaz 4.0 Live CD and created a Live USB.
   After booting it, I can see the first menu with all the choices but when I select the first entry, nothing happens except that the countdown is reset.
   The USB key is a 4GB SanDisk FAT16 formatted.
   Any help please?

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   gregbeta
   

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   Ok when you have done your installation do that :
   check how is reconise your hard drive ( sda1 etc )
   1 : go to slitaz panel
   2 : boot > bootloader
   3 : view or edit Menu.lst
   4 :
   # For booting SliTaz from : /dev/sda1
   #
   title SliTaz GNU/Linux (cooking) (Kernel vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz)
   root (hd0,0)
   kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root=/dev/sda1 quiet LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 kmap=fr

   5 : After install in my case it's sda and not sda1 - so you have to change it and save reboot :-)

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   rent0n
   

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   Uhm, I haven't tried yet, but I think you misunderstood me.
   I haven't installed Slitaz anywhere I just created a live USB, so I don't think I need to edit the bootloader configuration file, it doesn't really make sense to me...

   Anybody had the same problem I had?

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   totoetsasoeur
   

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   Well, everything is clearly explained here (RTFM...) :
   http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:liveusb?s=tazusb

   Anyway, just to make sure the process works, I created a liveUsb following the procedure as explained in the previous link:

   1) boot your system with a slitaz4 liveCD,
   2) insert the usb stick in the usb port,
   3) Launch a xterm terminal and type:
   

   $ su
   password
   # fdisk -l
     => to identify your usb stick.
   # tazusb format
    => answer /dev/sdb1 which is my usb key,
    => choose the format: ext3 (you will notice that fat16 is NOT listed, that may explained why you are in trouble...)
   # tazusb gen-liveusb /dev/sdb1

   And that's it. I rebooted the system on my fresh usb key without issue (apart the ones related to slitaz4. cf errata).

   Happy slitaz

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   rent0n
   

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   Hey, thanks!
   Apparently the problem was that I was selecting a fat32 file system, everything works fine with ext3.
   I guess I'll just need to make a separate fat16 or fat32 partition to continue using my usb key for data storage across different compputers with different OSes.

   Posted 12 years ago #

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