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phip

Member

Registered: 2012-04-30

Posts: 5

Live USB problems - Unetbootin?

I'm using Fedora to set up a live usb stick with unetbootin. I can't get the slitaz-4.0.iso image to boot, although the slitaz-4.0-firefox.iso image works fine. Both MD5s check out. kernel panics:

[c]VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,66)<br />
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available options:<br />
(...)<br />
Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,66)[/c]
I assume this is unetbootin's doing?

"Default" -- Kernel Panics

/ubnkern initrd=/ubninit 192M core 160M gtkonly 100M justx 48M base noram

"SliTaz Live" -- Says "Could not find image 192M"

/boot/isolinux/ifmem.c32 initrd=/ubninit 192M core 160M gtkonly 100M justx 48M base noram

"SliTaz core Live" -- Kernel Panics

/boot/bzImage initrd=/ubninit rw root=/dev/null vga=normal autologin

This appears to be the same issue.

Trixar_za

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: Live USB problems - Unetbootin?

Just use http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/stable/flavors/slitaz-4.0-core.iso

Unetbootin doesn't like the 4-in-1 russian doll type rootfs.gz that the default iso uses.

phip

Member

Registered: 2012-04-30

Posts: 5

Re: Live USB problems - Unetbootin?

Okay, thank you! I wish the documentation had mentioned that. All I could find was that one blog.