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i can't install the slitaz 4.0 to my usb stick

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• Started 12 years ago by vin
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   vin
   

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   @ fatmac,
   although "sdb1" was took placed of "sda1", i can not boot into slitaz.
   it displayed an error: "Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,1)".
   i had tried several others(like sda1, sdb2, sda2, sdc1, etc.) it also displays this error.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   vin
   

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   @ ceel
   @ aniguenni

   my stick just only 1G. slitaz is very small, i think my stick is enough to be installed slitaz. i had tried to install slitaz to my 8G stick, but the situation also exsitted.
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   the result of fdisk -l:
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   root@slitaz:/home/tux# fdisk -l

   Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
   255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
   Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
   /dev/sda1 * 1303 4567 26226081 7 HPFS/NTFS
   /dev/sda2 4568 60801 451699264 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
   /dev/sda5 7180 18079 87553652+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
   /dev/sda6 18080 21299 25861120 af Unknown
   /dev/sda7 21300 41295 160617812 b Win95 FAT32
   /dev/sda8 41296 60801 156681913+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

   Disk /dev/sdb: 7803 MB, 7803174912 bytes
   174 heads, 57 sectors/track, 1536 cylinders
   Units = cylinders of 9918 * 512 = 5078016 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
   /dev/sdb1 * 76 1537 7243584 b Win95 FAT32

   Disk /dev/sdc: 1001 MB, 1001848320 bytes
   31 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders
   Units = cylinders of 1922 * 512 = 984064 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
   /dev/sdc1 2 428 409600 83 Linux
   Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
   phys=(0, 32, 33) logical=(1, 2, 3)
   Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
   phys=(51, 30, 43) logical=(427, 8, 58)
   Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
   /dev/sdc2 428 1018 567296 83 Linux
   Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
   phys=(51, 30, 44) logical=(427, 8, 59)
   Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
   phys=(121, 190, 5) logical=(1017, 18, 50)
   Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary
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   and in grub:
   grub>find
   (hd0,0)
   hd(0,1)
   hd(1,0)
   hd(2,0)
   hd(2,4)
   hd(2,5)
   hd(2,6)
   hd(2,7)

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Ceel
   

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   @ vin,

   my stick just only 1G. slitaz is very small, i think my stick is enough to be installed slitaz.

   Right. You only need 250 MB for a full install.

   Result of fdisk -l

   You've got

   • a HD 500 GB; it'll always be sda
   • your 8 GB stick (I suppose) as sdb
   • your 1 GB stick as sdc

   fdisk and Grub see 2 partitions on the 1 GB stick. Did you do one for your /home? Did you remember on which one did you install SliTaz?
   In your menu.lst, try
   root (hd0,0)
   kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root=/dev/sdb2 rootdelay=8 quiet
   Boot with only the 1 GB stick connected.

   May be it should be better to format your key again and re-install SliTaz:

   1. Boot from LiveCD (with no stick inserted). Can you confirm you use SliTaz4.0 ?
   2. open TazPanel (one of the icon in the upper left corner) and click on the Installation tab; choose Installation
   3. Use GParted to suppress the 2 existing partitions; do only one and format it ext3
   4. check the LiveCD is in the CD reader and then install SliTaz; hoock Install Grub but don't hoock Dual boot
   5. after installion is completed, don't forget to check/modify the /boot/grub/menu.lst nn the stick as this:
      root (hd0,0)
      kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root=/dev/sdb1 rootdelay=8 quiet

   I hope I didn't do any mistake; I'm at my office without SliTaz running...

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   vin
   

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   @ ceel,
   thanks,thank you very much.
   i had spend several days trying to fix this problem.
   at the beginning, i just want have anothef partition to save my profile. but unexpected, it played a joke with me.
   but there is a thing still don't kown. i used to booting the winpe usb tool without setting up which drive to boot.
   can we do that?

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Ceel
   

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   Hello vin,

   I'm really sorry but I never used WinPE. I can't answer to your question.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   vin
   

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   @ceel
   it doesn't matter. but also thanks a lot.

   Posted 12 years ago #

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