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Registered: 2011-11-09

Posts: 28

Creating Boot Disc - Error

I'm trying to move my Slitaz installation to a 2nd machine. The new machine has 2 Win 7 OSs, but no Linux or GRUB. I created a partition for Slitaz and cloned it to the drive, but found Win Bootmgr wasn't going to work with it. Couldn't figure out an easy way to install GRUB alone, so I created another partition and installed Ubuntu. Now I had GRUB working, but Slitaz would only boot part way and stop with a blinking cursor.

Next I tried to make an ISO of my original install, with Write-iso. It seemed to work at first, but concluded with an error that it couldn't mount the CDROM, in order to get the kernel. The CD was indeed mounted and I tried putting the Live CD in the drive, but still got the same error.

I'd like to install the OS and have it on a bootable CD (though the CD is the priority). I wasn't sure whether I could use the Slitaz Installer to install the image from the bootable CD.

Thank you,

Darin

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Creating Boot Disc - Error

Linux/slitaz and grub must be installed to linux filesystems(ext2.3.4)

tazlito writeiso gzip :

Verify Slitaz livecd is mounted to /media/cdrom

ls -la /media/cdrom

total 13

drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root          2048 Mar  3 17:37 .

drwxr-x---   11 root     root           400 Mar 11 11:08 ..

drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root          2048 Mar  3 17:37 boot

-rw-r--r--    1 tux      1000          2633 Mar  3 17:31 index.html

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          3189 Mar  3 17:37 md5sum

-rw-r--r--    1 tux      1000           878 Mar  3 17:31 README

-rw-r--r--    1 tux      1000          1217 Mar  3 17:31 style.css

fork

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Registered: 2011-11-09

Posts: 28

Re: Creating Boot Disc - Error

Thank you Mojo, I'm using file system Ext 3.  If I can get the boot disc working, that might be all I need.  This is for a music server, so the prospect of running the OS in memory is intriguing.

fork

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Registered: 2011-11-09

Posts: 28

Re: Creating Boot Disc - Error

Still having problems with mounting the CDROM.  I spent the weekend experimenting with changing folder permissions and a few other things, but no luck.  I can see the device in Mountbox, but no detailed info.  I tried this command in the terminal:

mount -t iso9660 -o ro /media/cdrom /cdrom   

I got the error message, failed: Block device required

Any suggestions are appreciated.

michaelbischof

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Registered: 2012-01-20

Posts: 536

Re: Creating Boot Disc - Error

@fork

For me it looks wrong. It should be like

#mount /dev/hdc /media/cdrom

or

#mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdc /media/cdrom

- as you mount a device to a directory. Your line tries to mount a directory to another directory, which is not possible.

fork

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Registered: 2011-11-09

Posts: 28

Re: Creating Boot Disc - Error

That didn't work for me.  Mountbox is using the path /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom.  The dev folder had a text file called cdrom. it was corrupted and preventing me from creating a directory called cdrom, so I deleted it.  However, I'm not able to mount the device.  The line below  gives the same error, failed: Block device required.

mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom