Live CD 4.0 strange issue

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Started 11 years ago by surviver
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surviver

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Hi,

I just gave 4.0 a try. I booted up the ISO from USB with GRUB4DOS, which is working fine when I boot it in VMware. But a native boot my machine fails for some reason.
I get asked for login in console-mode because it seems theres a problem with loading some graphics stuff. How ever, I can login with root/root, but when i want to start the UI with startx,it fails to load that graphical stuff. I'm not very fimiliar with linux, so I don't realy get whats goin wrong there.

This is my menu.lst entry:

title Slitaz 4.0
map /slitaz-4.0.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
kernel /boot/bzImage lang=de_DE kmap=de-latin1 rw root=/dev/null autologin
initrd /boot/rootfs4.gz /boot/rootfs3.gz /boot/rootfs2.gz /boot/rootfs1.gz

Maybe something is wrong with it, but like I said... VMware works, and basicly I assumed that lines from .cfg the ISO's boot folder. So I think this is possibly be a bug? - v3 works fine so far...

Any ideas?

Posted 11 years ago #
Bellard

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try :
map --mem --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 /slitaz-4.0.iso (hd32)

Posted 11 years ago #
surviver

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Thanks for that fast reply. But still the same problem.

Fatal server error: No Display found.
GTk-Warning: No Screens found 0:0

It just dislikes my monitor? (DELL U2311H)

I also can hear the Powerup-click of my Soundcard, so that means the OS is actually ready to me.

/edit
I just bruned to a CD, same problem...
This seem like a problem with my GTX 560 or the monitor in my eyes.

/edit 2
Well, Gtk-only Mode works. Whats happening there?
That one is not really the solution...

Posted 11 years ago #
mojo

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Gtkonly has no nv or intel video driver xorg-xf86-video-vesa universal driver only.
Try booting core:
Edit menu.lst
kernel
After auto_login
nomodeset

Posted 11 years ago #
surviver

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No changes... :(
I also tried: noapic nolapic edd=on nodmraid nomodeset

Posted 11 years ago #
mojo

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Edit menu.lst
kernel
After auto_login
Add screen=text
Boot core to login prompt
Login root, password: root

Remove video drivers not in gtkonly:
tazpkg remove xorg-xf86-video-nv
tazpkg remove xorg-xf86-video-intel

Start xorg-server with slim login manager:
/etc/init.d/slim start

Posted 11 years ago #
surviver

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I gave that a try and got a graphical login-screen. But then it fails to execute the login command and I'm not able to do anything else than typing some login-data.

Posted 11 years ago #
mojo

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Try login as root password root.
If you can then login failure is caused by fat16/fat32/ntfs filesystems.
Format partition to ext3 filesystem where SliTaz is installed.

Posted 11 years ago #
surviver

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Slitaz is not installed yet, so the filestystem is cdfs.

I would try to install it to a ext3 USB later.
I had a look at the install guide, and just to verify my bottom line...

- extract all the rootfsX.gz to a ext3 USB, use cpio

- add vmlinuz-2.6.34-slitaz to GRUB-Bootloader

- Boot it

(I know I have to match the kernel version to v4.0)

Posted 11 years ago #
surviver

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Ok I tried that yesturday, with no success.
The MBR just don't find the bootloader (GRUB4DOS and GRUB2 neither) if my USB drive is formated to ext2/3. FAT/NTFS is no problem, but like you already said... slitaz seem not to be able to read it correctly.

Well, for now I just stick back to v3.
I think removing the nv-X.org-package is more a loophole than a solution anyways.
But thanks for your help. :)

Slitaz is a real nice project to me.

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