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q2dg

Member

Registered: 2016-09-27

Posts: 1

Slitaz installer doesn't work on a GPT partition

Hello.

I'm running Slitaz from LiveCD (burned from slitaz-rolling-core64.iso)

If I create a "msdos" partition table on my hard disk (with Gparted) and I create a ext4 partition (sda1), everything works fine when I run the installer and I check sda1 as destination partition and the "install a bootloader" option too.

But if I create a "gpt" partition table (with Gparted again) and I create a fat32 partition (marked as "boot" and "esp" in Gparted's Flags menu) and a ext4 partition (now it's sda2), when I run the installer and I check sda2 as destination partition and the "install a bootloader" option (expecting this will install something on ESP partition), when I boot the system I get a Syslinux 4.06 error : "Could not find a kernel image: vesamenu.c32".

Is Slitaz installer lacking the functionality of install the system on a GPT hard disk?

Thanks

Ceel

Administrator

Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 1,424

Re: Slitaz installer doesn't work on a GPT partition

Hi,

I guess the installer tried to install GRUB4DOS on the destination partition.

The message is an error message of the Syslinux bootloader.

Look at sda1 and sda2 and see where Syslinux is installed (sda1 I suppose) and see if there is there is a /boot/grub repertory in sda2.

Syslinux cannot run a filesystem that is installed on an other partition simply.