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Unable to boot from USB

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• Started 4 years ago by enigma9o7
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   enigma9o7
   

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   I have a pentium 4 I'd like to install SliTaz on.

   I grabbed slitaz-rolling.iso and tried to use dd to write to USB drive, but unable to boot. It doesnt even really try, it just moves on to booting from hard drive. I have USB set as first in boot order and I can boot other distros this way (bodhi, lubuntu, sugar (fedora), etc). As a sanity check I even tried using the same usb drive.

   I've searched and found conflicting advice, but decided to try using unetbootin. I grabbed the newest and used it to write the iso I'd downloaded, as well as let it download slitaz itself, none of those booted.

   I've found I can boot the dd made iso on another PC. But not on the PC I actually want to use it on.

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   The only vaguely hopeful advice I've seen, that I haven't tried yet, is booting the iso from grub. Right now I have bodhi (ubuntu) & xp on it, and have third 10GB partition available I planned to wipe for slitaz once I learned how to install. But as of now, can't even boot it...

   So if booting the iso from grub is a workaround, if someone could detail the procedure, it'd be appreciated.

   Or any other ideas of course.

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   I got it to work. I ran isohybrid on it, then used dd to write it, then it boots.

   [code]$ fdisk -l slitaz-rolling.iso
   GPT PMBR size mismatch (108543 != 106963) will be corrected by w(rite).
   Disk slitaz-rolling.iso: 52.2 MiB, 54765568 bytes, 106964 sectors
   Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
   Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
   I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
   Disklabel type: dos
   Disk identifier: 0x5e6d7274
   Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
   slitaz-rolling.iso1 1 108543 108543 53M ee GPT
   $ cp slitaz-rolling.iso taz.iso
   $ isohybrid taz.iso
   $ fdisk -l taz.iso
   Disk taz.iso: 53 MiB, 55574528 bytes, 108544 sectors
   Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
   Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
   I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
   Disklabel type: dos
   Disk identifier: 0x5e6d7274

   Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
   taz.iso1 * 0 108543 108544 53M 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
   bodhi@VPCF115FM:~/Downloads$ sudo dd if=./taz.iso of=/dev/sdc
   108544+0 records in
   108544+0 records out
   55574528 bytes (56 MB, 53 MiB) copied, 24.3867 s, 2.3 MB/s
   $[/code]

   Posted 4 years ago #

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