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slisyp

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Registered: 2022-07-02

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Problem booting LiveCD(&USB?)

Thank you for posting your project. Today, I’ve tried couple of Live SliTaz’s to have a taste of the software. Unfortunately none of them worked as expected.  I have tried following images:

slitaz-3.0-xvesa.iso

slitaz-4.0-base.iso

slitaz-4.0-firefox.iso

slitaz-4.0-justx.iso

None of them worked correctly;

None of the  slitaz-4.0 … worked at all. The Acer C720 was used for the first try, this computer uses BIOS to boot. Also, I have tried other computers with both BIOS & UEFI boot; none of them have recognized any boot partition. I have tried to use fdisk and beside the main device, downloaded images do not have any partition table.

The slitaz-3.0 … worked nicely, but it haven’t recognized neither wireless nor pointing device. In the past I have built custom kernels for all my computers that had all relevant modules build-in. It worked very well (loaded very fast and reliably). I have used GRUB  to select proper kernel. I wander if I can do the same thing for SliTaz, but first make it work for version 4.0.

Thank you for help.

bellard

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Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 657

Re: Problem booting LiveCD(&USB?)

We forgot the isohybrid stage during the production of 4.0 and the iso images only start from a cdrom. Fixed images are:

http://mirror1.slitaz.org/iso/4.0/flavors/slitaz-4.0-base-isohybrid.iso

http://mirror1.slitaz.org/iso/4.0/flavors/slitaz-4.0-firefox-isohybrid.iso

http://mirror1.slitaz.org/iso/4.0/flavors/slitaz-4.0-justx-isohybrid.iso

Did you try http://mirror1.slitaz.org/iso/rolling/slitaz-rolling-core-5in1.iso ?

slisyp

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Registered: 2022-07-02

Posts: 5

Re: Problem booting LiveCD(&USB?)

Than you for help; I'll try them today on my two computers; one that uses only BIOS other than have only UEFI. I'll post the results later today.

slisyp

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Registered: 2022-07-02

Posts: 5

Re: Problem booting LiveCD(&USB?)

I have only tried the slitaz-rolling-core-5in1.iso image; First, I have tried BIOS boot (Acer C720); almost everything worked nicely including wireless, Only thing that didn't work was a pointing device. Next, I've tried HP 17z-... laptop, which is more recent computer and it has only UEFI boot available. It seems that slitaz cannot be booted from UEFI partition.

I have checked you documentation and I would appreciate if you can point out which slitaz documentation describe the internal structure in details, such as initrd format, grub.cfg, etc. Is the way to customize slitaz?

Thank you for help.

slisyp

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Registered: 2022-07-02

Posts: 5

Re: Problem booting LiveCD(&USB?)

I have marked this post as solved. The corrected SliTaz boots nicely on BIOS (MBR) systems. However, I do not think, it boots UEFI only systems. Trying to work the problem, I've found nice SliTax documentation. Picking inside SliTaz, it seems that rootfs.gz; does not seem to be cpio -> gziped root system. How can I look inside the rootfs.gz?

bellard

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Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 657

Re: Problem booting LiveCD(&USB?)

* Can you test linux-chrome (tazpkg get-install linux-chrome ; modprobe chromeos_laptop) ?

  https://cook.slitaz.org/index.cgi?download=linux-chrome-3.16.55.tazpkg

  https://cook.slitaz.org/index.cgi?download=linux64-chrome-3.16.55.tazpkg

  It may support a pointing device.

* UEFI boot is broken in ISO images.

  The packages grub2-efi, grub2-efi-modules or grub2-efi-x64, grub2-efi-x64-modules are

  available for manual UEFI boot setup.

* unlzma < rootfs.gz | cpio -tv

slisyp

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Registered: 2022-07-02

Posts: 5

Re: Problem booting LiveCD(&USB?)

Thank you for help; I'll try chrome on my computers in the next opportunity when I learn little bit more about tazpkg packaging & SliTaz itself.

It would be nice if SliTaz can accept AppImages, Flatpak or other container type of packaging. It would relive SliTaz developers from keeping up with recent software. I've tried AppImage and it runs well on the minimum Linux. It suppose to be distribution agnostic container. Unfortunately the maintainers do not publish the basic host requirements for the container to run. They say only that Ubuntu lts is a basic support; which is not a good answer. Maybe other popular and commonly used container would be better for SliTaz?

Yes, lzma not gzip was used to compress rootfs.gz.

bellard

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Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 657

Re: Problem booting LiveCD(&USB?)

Note that SliTaz stays a 32 bits system : you must download i386 AppImages.

There is no file /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 to launch x86_64 AppImages.

Anyway the glibc package is obsolete :

$ ./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage

./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.22' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_zsyncmWftXs2/usr/bin/../lib/libzsync2.so)

./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.16' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_zsyncmWftXs2/usr/bin/../lib/libcurl.so.4)

./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_zsyncmWftXs2/usr/bin/../lib/libcurl.so.4)

./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.17' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_zsyncmWftXs2/usr/bin/../lib/libcurl.so.4)

./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_zsyncmWftXs2/usr/bin/../lib/libgcrypt.so.20)

./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_zsyncmWftXs2/usr/bin/../lib/libcrypto.so.1.1)

./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.17' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_zsyncmWftXs2/usr/bin/../lib/libcrypto.so.1.1)

./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.16' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_zsyncmWftXs2/usr/bin/../lib/libcrypto.so.1.1)

./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_zsyncmWftXs2/usr/bin/../lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2)

./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_zsyncmWftXs2/usr/bin/../lib/libgnutls.so.30)

./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.17' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_zsyncmWftXs2/usr/bin/../lib/libgnutls.so.30)

./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.22' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_zsyncmWftXs2/usr/bin/../lib/libgnutls.so.30)

./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.16' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_zsyncmWftXs2/usr/bin/../lib/libkrb5.so.3)

./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_zsyncmWftXs2/usr/bin/../lib/libsasl2.so.2)

./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_zsyncmWftXs2/usr/bin/../lib/libkrb5.so.26)

./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.16' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_zsyncmWftXs2/usr/bin/../lib/libroken.so.18)

./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_zsyncmWftXs2/usr/bin/../lib/libroken.so.18)

./zsyncmake2-51-4e549b6-i386.AppImage: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_zsyncmWftXs2/usr/bin/../lib/libcrypt.so.1)

bellard

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Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 657

Re: Problem booting LiveCD(&USB?)

FYI : A bug has been fixed with UEFI boot.

https://forum.slitaz.org/topic/error-usb-bootabling-slitaz-rolling#post-50889

$ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -cdrom Téléchargements/slitaz-rolling-core-5in1.iso -bios /usr/share/qemu/OVMF.X64

and

$ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -hda Téléchargements/slitaz-rolling-core-5in1.iso -bios /usr/share/qemu/OVMF.X64

boot.