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rent0n

Member

Registered: 2012-04-17

Posts: 3

Slitaz 4.0 Live USB hangs at boot

Hi there,

I just burnt a Slitaz 4.0 Live CD and created a Live USB.

After booting it, I can see the first menu with all the choices but when I select the first entry, nothing happens except that the countdown is reset.

The USB key is a 4GB SanDisk FAT16 formatted.

Any help please?

gregbeta

Member

Registered: 2012-04-17

Posts: 1

Re: Slitaz 4.0 Live USB hangs at boot

Ok when you have done your installation do that :

check how is reconise your hard drive ( sda1 etc )

1 : go to slitaz panel

2 : boot > bootloader

3 : view or edit Menu.lst

4 :

# For booting SliTaz from : /dev/sda1

#

title SliTaz GNU/Linux (cooking) (Kernel vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz)

root (hd0,0)

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root=/dev/sda1 quiet LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 kmap=fr

5 : After install in my case it's sda and not sda1 - so you have to change it and save reboot :-)

rent0n

Member

Registered: 2012-04-17

Posts: 3

Re: Slitaz 4.0 Live USB hangs at boot

Uhm, I haven't tried yet, but I think you misunderstood me.

I haven't installed Slitaz anywhere I just created a live USB, so I don't think I need to edit the bootloader configuration file, it doesn't really make sense to me...

Anybody had the same problem I had?

totoetsasoeur

Moderator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 247

Re: Slitaz 4.0 Live USB hangs at boot

Well, everything is clearly explained here (RTFM...) :

http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:liveusb?s[]=tazusb

Anyway, just to make sure the process works, I created a liveUsb following the procedure as explained in the previous link:

1) boot your system with a slitaz4 liveCD,

2) insert the usb stick in the usb port,

3) Launch a xterm terminal and type:

[c]$ su
password
# fdisk -l
  => to identify your usb stick.
# tazusb format
=> answer /dev/sdb1 which is my usb key,
=> choose the format: ext3 (you will notice that fat16 is NOT listed, that may explained why you are in trouble...)
# tazusb gen-liveusb /dev/sdb1[/c]
And that's it. I rebooted the system on my fresh usb key without issue (apart the ones related to slitaz4. cf errata).

Happy slitaz

rent0n

Member

Registered: 2012-04-17

Posts: 3

Re: Slitaz 4.0 Live USB hangs at boot

Hey, thanks!

Apparently the problem was that I was selecting a fat32 file system, everything works fine with ext3.

I guess I'll just need to make a separate fat16 or fat32 partition to continue using my usb key for data storage across different compputers with different OSes.