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romasa2k

Member

Registered: 2016-09-12

Posts: 3

Can't boot with a Slitaz Live USB.

Hi,

I'm currently using Slitaz 4 in my notebook, but before installing Slitaz 5 (Rolling) I want to try it.

So I tried to do a Live USB with various Live USB creation tools but none of them help me, doesn't matter what tool I use it keeps giving me the error. I tried also with another desktop computer but the same error appears. The error is the following:

"c32box.c32: not a com32 image."

It would be awesome if you could help me, thanks in advance.

Ronald.

//It´s a 4 GB USB.

sixofeight

Member

Registered: 2013-07-02

Posts: 234

Re: Can't boot with a Slitaz Live USB.

Hi Ronald

--> I'm currently using Slitaz 4 <--

This error happens because you used a distribution with an earlier version of the syslinux package to create the bootable USB.

and:

Since early 2016 the * .c32 files are compressed by lzma and isolinux.bin is updated to support it.

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/c32box

and

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/boot-error-after-cleaning-old-rootfs-files#post-41551

andreid

Member

Registered: 2016-10-25

Posts: 78

Re: Can't boot with a Slitaz Live USB.

Simple solution: fomat USB manually with Gparted before creating Live USB... always, don not trust USB creation tools.

Ceel

Administrator

Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 1,424

Re: Can't boot with a Slitaz Live USB.

@ romasa2k

[*]You can run Rolling from ISO:

download the last Rolling, say in /home/tux/Downloads

[*]add this entry in your /boot/grub/menu.lst

# SliTaz 5.0 Rolling - LiveISO
#
title SliTaz 5.0 Rolling (kernel 3.2.71)
   map --mem --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 (hd0,0)/home/tux/Downloads/slitaz-rolling-core.iso (hd32)
   map --hook
   chainloader (hd32)

(hd0,0) suppose your /home is on the first partition of your hard disk)

[*]You can also use a frugal install; see http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:uncommoninst#frugal-install

[*]or still boot from web:

install gpxe package

[c]tazpkg -gi gpxe --forced[/c]

[c]--forced[/c] because if my memory serves me well, gpxe is not correctly installed on a full 4.0 installation

[*]adding these lines to your /boot/grub/menu.lst

# Boot from web
#
title Boot from web
   kernel/boot/gpxe
should work.

Ceel

Administrator

Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 1,424

Re: Can't boot with a Slitaz Live USB.

@ devs

Really strange.

I tried to boot from web with my full installation SliTaz 4.0 but I loop on the first screen.

I tried with SliTaz Rolling in full installation, no success too.

But when I try with a LiveUSB (last rolling), no problem.

O.o ???

romasa2k

Member

Registered: 2016-09-12

Posts: 3

Re: Can't boot with a Slitaz Live USB.

Hi,

Ceel, the first solution is the best thing that I've ever seen. Now we don't even need a USB to boot, you only need to have the ISO in your hard disk a that's all.

Thank you, great solution.

Ronald.

roadkill13

Member

Registered: 2017-04-22

Posts: 5

Re: Can't boot with a Slitaz Live USB.

Tried this suggestion from Andried:

Simple solution: fomat USB manually with Gparted before creating Live USB... always, don not trust USB creation tools

This did not work. I received the same message regarding "c32box.c32: not a com32 image." Gparted did nothing for me on this one.

roadkill13

Member

Registered: 2017-04-22

Posts: 5

Re: Can't boot with a Slitaz Live USB.

Tried again.  Installed using dd. Worked a treat.