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Booting slitaz-rolling with Memdisk

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   guest_account
   

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   I'm trying to boot current Slitaz-rolling.iso from USB stick from an approach different from guide: memdisk.

   I'm basing on these docs:
   https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive#Using_Syslinux_and_memdisk
   https://mbusb.aguslr.com/howto.html

   So I basically got ready a USB stick, installed grub2 on it, downloaded syslinux-6.03.tar.gz from kernel.org, extracted only the memdisk binary and copied it to USB.

   Created menu entry for slitaz like this:
   [CODE]
   menuentry "slitaz-rolling" {
   iso_path="/path/to/slitaz-rolling.iso"
   bootoptions="iso raw"
   linux16 /path/to/memdisk $bootoptions
   initrd16 $iso_path
   }
   [/CODE]

   Result:
   Slitaz initial language menu does boot, but after selecting any language and hitting return one of 2 things happens: either next screen with just the kernel parameters but no "boot:" prompt, in fact, gets freezed here; or next screen doesn't enter at all and whole system reboots, as if a strange error...

   How can I make memdisk work with Slitaz, if even possible?

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   Aleksej
   

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   Hi,

   Bootloader used in SliTaz is syslinux (aka isolinux, etc.). First, version is old (so I doubt, your new-version downloaded module can cope with it). Second, SliTaz (Pascal Bellard, to be precise) adds many patches to it since years, I think no one here have skills near to his to describe how this patched syslinux works.
   http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/file/04ffefac5707/syslinux

   As for me, sorry, I can't help you. Booting still like magic for me.

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   Bellard
   

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   I have never get memdisk working.
   Can you try something like

   [CODE]
   menuentry "slitaz-rolling" {
   loopback loop "/path/to/slitaz-rolling.iso"
   chainloader ($loop)+1
   }
   [/CODE]

   I use grub4dos (or grub4dos-linux) from linux iso.

   [CODE]
   title slitaz-rolling
   map --mem --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 /path/to/slitaz-rolling.iso (hd32)
   map --hook
   chainloader (hd32)
   [/CODE]

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   guest_account
   

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   Sorry for the late response.

   Tried your code for memdisk, only got
   "Error: no server specified. Press any key"
   Then back to grub2 boot menu.

   Posted 4 years ago #

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