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• Started 1 month ago by ckinren
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   ckinren
   

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   Hi newbie to the forum and to SliTaz ....... discovered the os a few weeks back and really impressed with how much life it breathed into my old laptop.
   Decided to install to the hard disc ...... but have run into an error when I get to the first reboot.

   Have tried web install option for rolling/stable & core optionsand also from a downloaded rolling-core64 iso file.
   Hard disc selected as destination and format selected to ext4 (tried ext3 once with same result)
   Host name, password and user name and password al left as default.
   Install bootloader also selected.

   The process seems to complete successfully - see below

   Proceeding to: install
   1% Installing SliTaz on: /dev/sda1
   5% Checking settings...
   10% Preparing source media...
   20% Preparing target disk...
   30% Cleaning the root partition if necessary...
   40% Extracting the root system...
   50% Installing the Kernel...
   60% Preconfiguring the system...
   70% Configuring root and default user account...
   80% Configuring /home...
   90% Checking bootloader installation...
   100% Files installation completed
   Process completed!

   But on reboot I get the following error message:

   could not find kernel image : vesamenu.c32

   Any help/solution greatly appreciated.
   I'm a bit of a novice but with a bit of guidance and prompting I'm willing to explore to get any relevant info.

   Many thanks

   Posted 1 month ago #
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   Rantanplan
   

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   Hello @ckinren,

   have read here https://doc.slitaz.org/fr:handbook:installation ?
   I'ld seem that an ext2 formatting of target is required.

   Have you try with ext2 format ?

   Thank you.

   Posted 1 month ago #
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   Ceel
   

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   Hello ckinren,

   This is a message of the bootloader.
   You can download the missing file from here and copy it in /boot/extlinux (or /boot/syslinux).
   Not sure our old version of extlinux supports ext4, prefer ext3.
   If the error persists (the message could not find kernel image : vesamenu.c32 seems strange to me), please post your extlinux.cfg file.

   (IMHO, better to install Grub than Extlinux)

   Posted 1 month ago #
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   ckinren
   

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   Many thanks for the replies Rantanplan & Ceel.

   Formatting in ext2 made no difference, error message still there, so no joy with that option.

   I did have a fiddle and managed "to fudge" my syslinux.cfg file (copied below)
   I put a # at start of line "UI vesamenu.c32"
   It worked and system boots through to desktop, but I do not have the knowledge or understanding to know what I've done and if it is detrimental in any way.

   I've downloaded the missing file so I'll put the syslinux.cfg back to how it was and follow Ceel's suggestions and see where that gets me

   Current install is using ext4 not ext3 though. But there is no vesamenu.c32 file currently in /boot/syslinux location.

   Question ... how do you install Grub rather than Extlinux??
   I selected the "default" bootloader from the SliTaz install process, is that Extlinux?? so is there a way to select Grub as the bootloader instead??? or does it have to be installed separately afterwards??

   Modified syslinux.cfg file:

   # use a boot menu
   # UI vesamenu.c32

   # display the boot
   PROMPT 1

   # how long to pause at the boot
   TIMEOUT 50

   # default label
   DEFAULT slitaz

   # Menu settings
   MENU TITLE SliTaz GNU/Linux boot menu
   MENU BACKGROUND splash.jpg
   MENU WIDTH 78
   MENU MARGIN 6
   MENU ROW 10
   MENU VSHIFT 2
   MENU TIMEOUTROW 18
   MENU TABMSGROW 16
   MENU CMDLINEROW 16

   # Menu colors
   MENU COLOR border * #00000000 #00000000 none
   MENU COLOR title * #ffffffff #00000000 *
   MENU COLOR sel 0 #ffffffff #00000000 none
   MENU COLOR unsel 0 #50ffffff #00000000 none
   MENU COLOR help * #ffffffff #00000000 *
   MENU COLOR timeout_msg 37;40 #80ffffff #00000000 std
   MENU COLOR timeout 1;37;40 #c0ffffff #00000000 std
   MENU COLOR msg07 37;40 #90ffffff #a0000000 std
   MENU COLOR tabmsg 31;40 #30ffffff #00000000 std

   # Labels
   LABEL slitaz
   MENU LABEL SliTaz GNU/Linux [5.0]\(Kernel vmlinuz-3.16.55-slitaz)
   LINUX /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.55-slitaz
   APPEND root=PARTUUID=cd16d832-84e0-4276-9630-a7335f94b10a video=-32 quiet

   LABEL cmdline
   MENU LABEL Command Line
   MENU QUIT

   Posted 1 month ago #
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   Ceel
   

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   I put a # at start of line "UI vesamenu.c32"

   This disables the menu of Extlinux; so you boot directly the DEFAULT entry (slitaz= line LABEL slitaz) after 5 seconds of TIMEOUT.
   TIMEOUT is generally used when you boot from an USB device; you can also comment this line and you'll boot still faster ;)

   Current install is using ext4 not ext3 though.

   Good to know. There are years I didn't do an install via the installer. And I never use ext4. Thanks for the return.

   Question ... how do you install Grub rather than Extlinux??

   :/ Long time I didn't do an install via the installer...
   In my memory, the installer asked for what bootloader you want to install.
   I had a look at the handbook and according to it, the installer should install Grub.
   If you're happy with your installation, no need to install Grub.
   But if you want to play with it though you can install the grub4dos-linux package an follow the instructions of installation
   Just curious: what SliTaz release did you use to create your liveUSB/CD and how did you do it?

   Posted 1 month ago #
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   ckinren
   

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   Hi Ceel, missing file (vesamenu.c32) downloaded and copied to "/boot/syslinux"

   And success laptop boots up into desktop.

   All seems to be running well and for info HDD is formatted to ext4.

   For info : I downloaded the rolling iso and extracted it to make a liveUSB using "Rasp Pi Imager" (only one I currently have on my main machine)
   The liveUSB booted and ran with no problem that I could see, so decided to try install to HDD.

   Using the installation process from the TazPanel installer:
   Selecting source as LiveUSB failed to detect the usb.
   Tried selecting source as ISO file - again failed to fully install ..... but hindsight says I made error as I used the extracted ISO file on the liveUSB as the source and not the non-extracted downloaded ISO file.????
   Finally achieved success using Web as source and selecting the "rolling" version from the drop down menu.
   Install using this Web method was successful but the boot failed due to the missing file (vesamenu.c32), which has now been resolved thanks to your help.

   Next tasks are to see if I can get my network printer and NAS storage device visible and usable on Slitaz.

   Many thanks for your help, it was very much appreciated.

   Posted 1 month ago #
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   offternet
   

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   Just to add my personal experience.

   Installed SliTaz Rolling 5.0 on a ext4 partition - Formated which installed the dos bootlooder. Then I used Q4OS Debian install to a different partition and it swapped the bootloader to GRUB2. Now I can access SliTaz and all other parititions from GRUB2 Bootmenu.

   Posted 2 weeks ago #

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