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enigma9o7

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Registered: 2020-03-22

Posts: 77

Unable to boot from USB

I have a pentium 4 I'd like to install SliTaz on. 

I grabbed slitaz-rolling.iso and tried to use dd to write to USB drive, but unable to boot.  It doesnt even really try, it just moves on to booting from hard drive.  I have USB set as first in boot order and I can boot other distros this way (bodhi, lubuntu, sugar (fedora), etc).  As a sanity check I even tried using the same usb drive.

I've searched and found conflicting advice, but decided to try using unetbootin.  I grabbed the newest and used it to write the iso I'd downloaded, as well as let it download slitaz itself, none of those booted.

I've found I can boot the dd made iso on another PC.  But not on the PC I actually want to use it on.

enigma9o7

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Registered: 2020-03-22

Posts: 77

Re: Unable to boot from USB

The only vaguely hopeful advice I've seen, that I haven't tried yet, is booting the iso from grub.  Right now I have bodhi (ubuntu) & xp on it, and have third 10GB partition available I planned to wipe for slitaz once I learned how to install.  But as of now, can't even boot it...

So if booting the iso from grub is a workaround, if someone could detail the procedure, it'd be appreciated.   

Or any other ideas of course.

enigma9o7

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Registered: 2020-03-22

Posts: 77

Re: Unable to boot from USB

I got it to work.   I ran isohybrid on it, then used dd to write it, then it boots.

$ fdisk -l slitaz-rolling.iso

GPT PMBR size mismatch (108543 != 106963) will be corrected by w(rite).

Disk slitaz-rolling.iso: 52.2 MiB, 54765568 bytes, 106964 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disklabel type: dos

Disk identifier: 0x5e6d7274

Device              Boot Start    End Sectors Size Id Type

slitaz-rolling.iso1          1 108543  108543  53M ee GPT

$ cp slitaz-rolling.iso taz.iso

$ isohybrid taz.iso

$ fdisk -l taz.iso

Disk taz.iso: 53 MiB, 55574528 bytes, 108544 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disklabel type: dos

Disk identifier: 0x5e6d7274

Device     Boot Start    End Sectors Size Id Type

taz.iso1   *        0 108543  108544  53M 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS

bodhi@VPCF115FM:~/Downloads$ sudo dd if=./taz.iso of=/dev/sdc

108544+0 records in

108544+0 records out

55574528 bytes (56 MB, 53 MiB) copied, 24.3867 s, 2.3 MB/s

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