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qmastery16

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Registered: 2026-03-13

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BUG in slitaz-rolling-core-5in1.iso: only bzImage64 + rootfs32 pair have a working graphical desktop

Good day! We tested the following combinations:

*) bzImage (32-bit) + rootfs (32-bit) --> default ISO booting, also custom build

*) bzImage (64-bit) + rootfs (32-bit) --> custom build

*) bzImage (64-bit) + rootfs (64-bit) --> custom build

At the moment, only "bzImage (64-bit) + rootfs (32-bit)" combination have a working graphical desktop (that also autostarts), other combinations just drop you to a raw console and startx is not working

For the custom builds, we mounted slitaz-rolling-core-5in1.iso and produced initrd files in the following way:

xz --single-stream -cd ./rootfs5.gz   >> ./initrd

xz --single-stream -cd ./rootfs4.gz   >> ./initrd

xz --single-stream -cd ./rootfs3.gz   >> ./initrd

xz --single-stream -cd ./rootfs2.gz   >> ./initrd

xz --single-stream -cd ./rootfs1.gz   >> ./initrd

xz --threads=1 --format=lzma --check=crc32 --lzma1=dict=64MiB,lc=3,lp=0,pb=2,mode=normal,nice=273,mf=bt4,depth=0 < ./initrd > ./initrd.lzma

xz --single-stream -cd ./rootfs5.gz   >> ./initrd64

xz --single-stream -cd ./rootfs4.gz   >> ./initrd64

xz --single-stream -cd ./rootfs3.gz   >> ./initrd64

xz --single-stream -cd ./rootfs2.gz   >> ./initrd64

xz --single-stream -cd ./rootfs1.gz64 >> ./initrd64

xz --threads=1 --format=lzma --check=crc32 --lzma1=dict=64MiB,lc=3,lp=0,pb=2,mode=normal,nice=273,mf=bt4,depth=0 < ./initrd64 > ./initrd64.lzma

gibor

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Registered: 2011-04-30

Posts: 1,067

Re: BUG in slitaz-rolling-core-5in1.iso: only bzImage64 + rootfs32 pair have a working graphical desktop

Hi, Slitaz Rolling/Cooking (aka 5.0) has a 32-bit userspace only. The version labeled “64” has only a 64-bit kernel to handle larger amounts of RAM.

The only fully 64-bit version is 6.0 (aka current64), but it isn't multilib, so it doesn't support 32-bit!