Hi Lucas,
Thank you! It is clearly and simply written.
In fact, I thought that described behavior is related to non-official bootloader.
So the core "stage" cannot have less packages than gtkonly. (It's only my guess...)
I'll show you :)
A little background. I went through several steps to boot new SliTaz images.
At first, I unpacked the ISO, and joined four rootfs*.gz files into one by using the command cat. If I'm not mistaken, it was not yet released the slitaz-rolling-core.iso image, and the thing is, I did not know how to fit four rootfs*.gz files into my bootloader menu.list. In all my existing examples used only a single file. You know, it the wrong way. Not least because I was unpacking files in numerical order: 1, 2, 3, 4 :)
Further, when the slitaz-rolling-core.iso image appeared on a regular basis, I began to use it. At the same time my menu.list looks like this:
title SliTaz Rolling 150426
rootnoverify (hd0,6)
kernel (hd0,6)/rolling/bzImage rw root=/dev/null lang=ru_RU kmap=ru
initrd (hd0,6)/rolling/rootfs.gz
Here two files used: bzImage and rootfs.gz both just extracted from the ISO.
And this year I learned that I can just run ISO without unpacking. I have a netbook, CD drive is not here. I do not buy and do not burn discs for many years. But thanks to this method, I can run the ISO in a way that was originally intended ISO creators! I see menu from ISO, it's dark image on background, I can check memory using ISO menu entry, I can select the language from the language menu, I can edit commandline... This method works very well because SliTaz ISO is so small to fit in the my not-so-big 1GB RAM. So, the lines in the menu.lst is not very complicated, and they are like as follows:
title SliTaz Rolling 151108 ISO
map --mem --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 (hd0,6)/rolling/slitaz-rolling.iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)
Using this method you'll boot the «official way», as it intended by the SliTaz creators, as it written in the flavors. And you'll see all I tell about previously.
Thanks for your attention!