syslinux/isolinux troubles with Intel Atoms Poulsbo and c32box.c32

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syslinux/isolinux troubles with Intel Atoms Poulsbo and c32box.c32

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Started 10 years ago by kultex
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kultex

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I have no knowledge of syslinux/isolinux and c32box.c32

I am trying to help tmoulder to get rolling to work on a Asus poulsbo netbook http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/noob-on-a-gma500/page/2

Stick and CD are stopping on the copyright line ending in "Peter Alvin"

Posted 10 years ago #
Anonymous

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Problems with usb booting are often down to the system timing out before it finds its root filesystem.

Try adding 'rootdelay=9' on the kernel line of the grub bootloader.

(I have added the above to his thread also.)

Posted 10 years ago #
Bellard

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Can you retry with http://mirror.slitaz.org/~bellard/slitaz-rolling-textmenu.iso ?

Posted 10 years ago #
tmoulder

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Hi guys,

Thanks again for the help, I tried it with the textmenu iso and wound up at the Welcome to your box prompt again.

Posted 10 years ago #
kultex

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that sounds very strange - so I have to aske more questions - I hope you are still willing to continue?

did you try any other linux cd that booted?

how advanced are you? - can you work with midnight commander? its normally easier than with commandline + nano?

can you mount devices by hand?

Posted 10 years ago #
mojo

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Verify http://mirror.slitaz.org/~bellard/slitaz-rolling-textmenu.iso has linux-staging which owns psb_gfx
Boot to Welcome to your box.
Login as root password: root
Type this:
tazpkg search linux-staging
Hit Enter key

Posted 10 years ago #
kultex

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@ mojo, I think we should get out his Xorg.0.log to see what is the problem

Posted 10 years ago #
tmoulder

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Hi guys, sorry I've been too tied up to get back to you this week. I really appreciate your efforts.

I went back to using pendrivelinux and it seems to be working fine for the live usb.

mojo, linux-staging is not installed.

tell me how to pull the log from CLI and I'll get it for you. startx reports "Fatal server error no screens found

Posted 10 years ago #
kultex

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get root

mount /dev/sdb1 /media/flash ... check name of your usbstick with: fdisk -l

install midnight commander with: tazpkg -gi mc

open midnight commander with : mc

and copy /var/log/Xorg.0.log to /media/flash

Posted 10 years ago #
tmoulder

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Mount command returns can't find /dev/sdb1 in /etc/fstab

I can nano the file and see it, too much to type up verbatim, but here are a few things I noticed

It loads module "fbdev" and identifies it, then Vesa. It loads sub module fbdevhw. then an error: open /dev/fb0: no such file or directory

It then says falling back to old probe method for vesa, unloads fbdev, fbdevhw, and vesa.

then it says screens found but none have a usable configuration

Thanks!

Posted 10 years ago #
kultex

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did you check the name of your usb-stick as root with: fdisk -l

maybe its sda1 or sdc 1 ???

but the description is now enough - can you do all this as root

tazpkg remove xorg-xf86-video-vesa
tazpkg -gi linux-staging
modprobe psb_gfx
exit to get user tux and startx

and now attach the xorg.0.log

Posted 10 years ago #
tmoulder

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On tazpkg -GI linux-staging, I get an error

Cp: target lib/modules/3.2.53-slitaz is not a directory

Modprobe produces fatal module psb_gfx not found

Posted 10 years ago #
kultex

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you have to take newest rolling from today, because there was a big change last week

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