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Hi,
I did a new install of SliTaz rolling (32bits) on my Asus Eee PC 900:
/ on sda1 and /home on sda2
EXT3 for the 2 partitions
No SWAP
Installation of Boot
I did always like that and in the past it was always OK.
I started a live USB and installed from the Web.
And this time, at the end of the installation when it restarts, I have just a black screen with nothing excepted '_'. I don't see Grub and options.
How can I resolve this problem?
Thanks for your help
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Hi R8,
hmmm that strange, to ensure that no issue with Xorg, in live after mount root partition, can you please edit rcS.conf and remove slim in RUN_DAEMONS.
Also share /var/log/Xorg.*.log /var/log/slim.log if available.
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Hi shann,
I find a file rcS.conf in folder etc. Is it this file?
See file in attachment (renamed with .txt), I don't find slim in part RUN_DAEMONS.
In /var/log, I don't find the 2 .log files that you ask.
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Hi R8,
sorry i confusion with 4.0 rcS.conf, in case if we don't have log, issue on boot but if you don't see grub menu 
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Maybe you can boot on live and try to boot hard install with define root=/dev/sda1 instead root=/dev/null ?
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@ R8,
I started a live USB and installed from the Web.
You only boot Extlinux; does SliTaz run from the Live on this computer?
Could you post [c]menu.lst[/c] of the Asus Eee PC 900 please?
Does adding [c]screen=text[/c] at the end of the [c]kernel[/c] line allow to boot in console?
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Hi,
With the Live USB, SliTaz does run very good. The problem of the black screen with _ is when I try to boot from the installed version on the SSD of the laptop.
In attachment, menu.lst.
I added 'screen=text' but this resolves not the problem.
Maybe it is not a software problem but hardware problem (old ssd... old laptop...)?
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# /boot/grub/menu.lst: GRUB boot loader configuration.
#
# By default, boot the first entry.
default 0
# Boot automatically after 8 secs.
timeout 8
# Graphical splash image.
splashimage=/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
# Root password is required for edition
password --[...]
# Change the colors.
#color yellow/brown light-green/black
# For booting SliTaz from : /dev/sda1
#
title SliTaz GNU/Linux 5.0 (Kernel vmlinuz-3.16.55-slitaz)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.55-slitaz root=/dev/sda1 video=-32 quiet screen=text
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I have the same problem as you @R8, black screen without any sign of Grub. First time it happens and I use a desktop PC.
Now I take fresh debian install (on another partition) and use your debian grub to start SliTaz
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@R8
Maybe it is not a software problem but hardware problem (old ssd... old laptop...)?
... or old Grub4dos? It looks like it does not recognize SSD disks.
In this case, using Grub2 instead Grub4dos will solve this.
@rerivero,
Were you booting from an SSD too when it happened?
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@Ceel,
I don't have SSD. I was booting from HDD.
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The problem of the black screen with _ is when I try to boot from the installed version on the SSD of the laptop.
???
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EeePC 4G (701) Same problem as R8 & rerivero : black screen but with GRUB GRUB and machine freezed, when I try to boot from the installed version on the SSD. Live running fine. I have a doubt about Gparted leaving or not some empty space at start when partitionning.
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EeePC 4G (701) NO PROBLEM if
USB CD slitaz-rolling.iso 2020-02-19
Installed from source LiveCD
to partition: /dev/sda1 (ext4)
Do not format
Yes Install a bootloader
reboot then
GRUB4DOS 0.4.4 2019-11-17
Welcome to your box OK
Note that GParted force Free space preceding to 1 MB
https://askubuntu.com/questions/948837/why-does-gparted-force-1mb-free-space-preceeding
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Hi,
It's also OK for me when I make installation from an old slitaz-rolling.iso (from https://archive.org/details/slitaz5rolling20210117).
I am happy that this is not a hardware problem on my old laptop.
Maybe it is necessary to correct/update package(s) on the actual slitaz-rolling.iso?
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SOLVED EeePC 4G (701) started normally after installation with USB slitaz-rolling.iso 32 bits downloaded on 2023-08-09.
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Thank you for the information Pierre! I will try asap.
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