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tiziano

Member

Registered: 2014-09-09

Posts: 92

Cannot start USB Live SLiTaz 4.0

Had SliTaz 4.0 nicely CD-installed in an old Hp Vectra whereby it's performing damned good. Now i was trying testing it via USB Live on a micro-pc. USB generating was OK (fat32) but by system launching it sticks and cannot start live session. Apparently cannot create /home/tux and it says something like not being able to find extlinux/ifmem.c32

In the forum's FAQ and among usual newbies problems read about RAM capacity limits. Might it be the reason?

thank you for helping

christophe

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Registered: 2011-04-17

Posts: 432

Re: Cannot start USB Live SLiTaz 4.0

the doc says you should use an ext3 fs and fat32 does does not work. If you do that you will be happy.

There is a fix for the fat32 issue that was posted by Bellard I think, and I think it was in May or June (2014), if you want to look for it in the forum.

tiziano

Member

Registered: 2014-09-09

Posts: 92

Re: Cannot start USB Live SLiTaz 4.0

Tried with ext3 and anything looked to be good until end of USB booting. After all that starting scripting going on automatically, my mini pc stuck with a black screen and a blinking cursor on the top left end side.  Had a look in the forum and other posts described exactly the process I followed. Why does It fails?

tiziano

Member

Registered: 2014-09-09

Posts: 92

Re: Cannot start USB Live SLiTaz 4.0

Can start base live and, after tux login, if I give the "strartx" command system says: /home/tux/.xsession: .: line 3: can't open  /home/tux/.config/slitaz/applications.conf   even though USB has been generated by a CD which was booting pretty nice live..

any suggestion how to overcome this hurdle? 

Thanks

Ceel

Administrator

Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 1,424

Re: Cannot start USB Live SLiTaz 4.0

Try this:

At orange screen, select core

Hit [Tab] key

Edit the command line[c]

KERNEL /boot/bzImage append initrd=/boot/rootfs4.gz,/boot/rootfs3.gz,/boot/rootfs2.gz,/boot/rootfs1.gz rw root=/dev/null vga=normal autologin home=your-UUID[/c]

as follow[c]

KERNEL /boot/bzImage append initrd=/boot/rootfs4.gz,/boot/rootfs3.gz,/boot/rootfs2.gz,/boot/rootfs1.gz rw root=/dev/null vga=normal nomodeset home=your-UUID screen=text[/c]

Hit [Enter]

Login as tux and type[c]

mkdir /home/tux/.config/slitaz

cp /etc/slitaz/applications.conf /home/tux/.config/slitaz/

su

root

slim[/c]

tiziano

Member

Registered: 2014-09-09

Posts: 92

Re: Cannot start USB Live SLiTaz 4.0

Cell,

Did like you suggested. Unfortunately System keep ending again with the black screen Even though it made the directory /home/tux/.config/slitaz/ 

Also by Base live got following error: /home/tux/.xsession: line 4: Xorg: not found

this is kind of frustrating

Ceel

Administrator

Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 1,424

Re: Cannot start USB Live SLiTaz 4.0

It seems you don't have the good driver for your graphic card.  Repeat commands of my previous post till to be root. Don't type[c]slim[/c]

Identify you graphic card:

[c]lspci -nn[/c]

Then type (always as root):

[c]tazx[/c]

select xorg   Install or reconfigure Xorg

search for your graphic card in the list; you need to be connected with ethernet cable.

Reading these instructions before will help you.

tiziano

Member

Registered: 2014-09-09

Posts: 92

Re: Cannot start USB Live SLiTaz 4.0

apparently my graphic card is not in the Xorg list.

However read in the instructions you attached, which are very interesting, that an alternative way is possible and it was in the end.

As matter of fact system does work properly with USB done out of XVesa.iso

Thank you very much Ceel for your skilled knowledge and precious help

If you need to mark item as "solved"  I don't know how to put it.   Newbie ignorance