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SliTaz 4.0-RC2 - Feedback

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• Started 12 years ago by pankso
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   devl547
   

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   sampaiosp, it's grub4dos (based on first GRUB version).

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Sebastian
   

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   As I wrote already yesterday I wasnt able to boot RC2 on my EeePC 901 with 2GB RAM. I created the USB-flash using the dd command. Everything worked fine with RC1 (I'm talking about the booting process, not the xorg troubles...).

   Today I tried the RC2-loram iso and it worked out of the box. Even with the correct 1024*600 resolution!

   Good that the loram-iso works fine, but I cannot understand why the ordinary iso doesnt boot.

   What are the differences between does two isos? I thought there was just a less RAM-consuming compression-way on the loram iso, but why the ordinary iso doesnt boot on 2GB RAM? I think it cannot be a question of RAM!

   For me it doesnt matter to use the loram-iso or the ordinary one. I was just wondering why it is as it is.

   @rexroom
   Did you try the loram-iso?

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   @Sebastian
   RC2 version is why the graphics auto configured,not loram.
   RC2 release includes intel,nv,geode graphics drivers which have superior autoconfiguration.
   RC1 release only includes the generic vesa driver which requires manual configuration on some hardware.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   domcox
   

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   sampaiosp, on a HDD install, it's grub1 (0,97):
   http://www.gnu.org/software/grub

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   sampaiosp
   

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   Thank you,

   I managed to recover the windows 7

   I changed the entry in menu.lst

   I changed (hd0.1) to (hd0.0)

   But I just can not recover the SliTaz

   I still need help in this part

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Somewhat Reticent
   

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   sampaiosp, the GrUB4dOS tutorial at http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/grub4dos#TOC-References has links to documentation, development and bulletin board.

   mojo (et al), does 4rc2 also include ati drivers? and a cheatcode/boot-parameter for fail-safe fallback to Xvesa?

   (anybody tried netsurf at http://www.netsurf-browser.org ?)

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   @sampaiosp
   If you have grub installed:
   At the grub menu hit the c key.
   grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
   hit enter
   Should output the slitaz root partition.
   hit Esc
   Highlight the slitaz menu entry hit e
   Add root from above and convert for root=/dev/sdaX or root=/dev/hdaX on the kernel line
   hit enter,b to boot
   These edits are temporary,write them down.
   After you boot into slitaz edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to make it permanent.

   @Somewhat Reticent
   Maybe xorg-xf86-video-ati with depends will be added to a future release iso. I'm testing 4.0-RC2 on two computers with amd/ati graphics. A radeon r5450 on one and a biostar MB with an A780L3G chipset with integrated radeon HD3000 graphics on the other. No additional boot codes necessary,the radeon frame buffer transitions smoothly to the desktop.The 19" flatpanels boot to 1280x1024 with the vesa driver,installing xorg-xf86-video-ati and friends maxs out the resolution at 1440x900. What I'm missing is direct rendering to hardware on either ati or nvidia with any version of slitaz.
   Netsurf was on some pre SliTaz 3.0 cooking iso's.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Anonymous
   

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   I tried the loram version, and that booted straight to a working desktop. Very impressive.

   But the vanilla version ought to work, considering it's the first version offered on the front page. I did a 'fdisk -l' on the images, with some revealing points.

   tux@slitaz:~$ fdisk -l slitaz-4.0-RC2.iso
   
   Disk slitaz-4.0-RC2.iso: 0 MB, 0 bytes
   255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders
   Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
   
   Disk slitaz-4.0-RC2.iso doesn't contain a valid partition table

   tux@slitaz:~$ fdisk -l slitaz-4.0-RC2-loram.iso
   Unknown value(s) for: cylinders (settable in the extra functions menu)
   
   Disk slitaz-4.0-RC2-loram.iso: 0 MB, 0 bytes
   64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 0 cylinders
   Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
   
                      Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
   slitaz-4.0-RC2-loram.iso2   *           1          41       41984  17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS

   I checked the MD5 sums, no corruptions. Looks like a broken partition table is to blame.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Bellard
   

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   @rexroom:
   isohydrid has been run on loram and not on vanilla.
   It's a tool to be able to see a cdrom image as an hard disk image.
   It as nothing to do with your problem.

   A new rolling (post RC2) as been built with misc fixes :
   Can you test
   http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/rolling/slitaz-core-4in1.iso and
   http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/rolling/slitaz-core-4in1.loram.iso ?

   Thanks.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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    michaelbischof
    

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    @Somewhat Reticent

    ,,(anybody tried netsurf at http://www.netsurf-browser.org ?)"
    No. Looks interesting, but I will not compile it. Do you have arguments for it? What does it have that we do not have with tazweb or Midori?

    Posted 12 years ago #
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    @Bellard:
    In that case it's probably best if you bring that fact about medias up front: With memory sticks becoming more cheaper and more versatile than your common CD burn, people will probably try with a smarter media. Not that I don't understand the need for CD burns: I have one laptop that doesn't run USB boots.

    btw: Writing this on the new (plain) rolling release that I dd'd on a stick. From what I can gather quickly, it works like a charm. If only I had time for an indepth run... :P

    Posted 12 years ago #
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    michaelbischof
    

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    I just tested the RC2 of today. It was not possible to boot it from a frugal hdd-installation. From CD it worked. But it was not possible to get a working Xscreen, not even in case I booted ,,slitaz nomodeset". It was shown that the module nouveau was loaded, but no usable Xconfiguration was detected.
    The error message complained that the Graphic driver Nvidia Geforce 7100 claimed that device but without unloading the module nouveau it could not work. So it seems not to have yet reached the goal. In case I did not do stupid detail mistakes, of course.

    Posted 12 years ago #
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    kultex
    

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    @Somewhat Reticent

    you can try it - its available - http://mirror.slitaz.org/packages/cooking/netsurf-2.6.tazpkg

    we had it for some time in testing isos, but to much problems

    Posted 12 years ago #
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    sampaiosp
    

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    @mojo

    Thanks for the help

    But before reading your answer had already managed to solve

    Still good to know we can count on your support

    And it was really what I did ...

    I edited the "menu.lst" before loading the SliTaz because my HD had 3 partitions ...
    2 and 1 ext4 NTFs

    Like this:

    # / Boot / grub / menu.lst: GRUB boot loader configuration.
    default 0
    timeout 8
    splashimage = / boot / grub / splash.xpm.gz

    title SliTaz GNU / Linux (cooking) (Kernel vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz)
    root (hd0, 2)
    kernel / boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root = / dev/sda3 lang = en

    # For booting Windows:

    title Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
    rootnoverify (hd0, 0)
    chainloader +1

    Posted 12 years ago #
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    Humm. I tried the HD installation process from TazPanel, but it complains about missing mkfs-tools and does nothing.

    Posted 12 years ago #

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