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stevewalsh

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Registered: 2017-08-28

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slitaz 4.0 live - boot failure - VFS open root device "(null)" or unknown-block (0,66)

Hello,

Please can someone advise what I should do ?

The live slitaz 4.0 (stable) image is booting from USB (UNetbootin)

I've attached a picture of the screen I get.

Is it safe to append existing disk (sda1) without corrupting/overwriting existing (Lubuntu) install?

Can I append USB disk (sda5) for mounting /root ?

Thanks.

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Ceel

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Re: slitaz 4.0 live - boot failure - VFS open root device "(null)" or unknown-block (0,66)

Hi,

What ISO did you use to create the Live?

Did you let UNetBootin load it or did you use the ISO from your HD?

stevewalsh

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Re: slitaz 4.0 live - boot failure - VFS open root device "(null)" or unknown-block (0,66)

Thank you for the very quick reply.

http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/slitaz/iso/4.0/slitaz-4.0.iso  (34.7 MiB - 36,419,584 bytes)

I downloaded the ISO (conveniently small) and pointed UNetbootin at that.

Ceel

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Re: slitaz 4.0 live - boot failure - VFS open root device "(null)" or unknown-block (0,66)

This is the 4-in-1 ISO (multi rootfs). It cannot work with UNetBootin.

Use the core ISO: http://mirror1.slitaz.org/iso/4.0/flavors/slitaz-4.0-core.iso

Ceel

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Re: slitaz 4.0 live - boot failure - VFS open root device "(null)" or unknown-block (0,66)

But you'd better to use the rolling ISO: http://mirror1.slitaz.org/iso/rolling/slitaz-rolling-core.iso

stevewalsh

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Re: slitaz 4.0 live - boot failure - VFS open root device "(null)" or unknown-block (0,66)

Thanks, I'll use that.

Would UNetbootin have used the correct version if I'd let it download Slitaz ?

It offers the choice of "Stable_Live" and "Cooking_Live".

Ceel

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Re: slitaz 4.0 live - boot failure - VFS open root device "(null)" or unknown-block (0,66)

No. Stable and cooking are both multi-rootfs versions and are not compatible with third party tools.

stevewalsh

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Re: slitaz 4.0 live - boot failure - VFS open root device "(null)" or unknown-block (0,66)

No joy...

Different problem though...

What next ?

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stevewalsh

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Re: slitaz 4.0 live - boot failure - VFS open root device "(null)" or unknown-block (0,66)

This was using UNetbootin with http://mirror1.slitaz.org/iso/rolling/slitaz-rolling-core.iso

Thanks in advance.

Ceel

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Re: slitaz 4.0 live - boot failure - VFS open root device "(null)" or unknown-block (0,66)

[c]Syslinux 6.03[/c]?

Seems to me Syslinux 4.05 should be installed. Did your USB media fresh formated FAT32

I don't remember UNetbootin installed Syslinux 6.03 last time I used it.

stevewalsh

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Re: slitaz 4.0 live - boot failure - VFS open root device "(null)" or unknown-block (0,66)

That sorted it !

I'd let UNetbootin overwrite everything but clearly it didn't work...

Re-format and then UNetbootin with the slitaz-rolling-core.iso booted first time...

Thanks again for your help, signing off to install slitaz on this laptop now... (alongside existing Lubuntu hopefully!)

Cheers...