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surviver

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Registered: 2012-05-07

Posts: 7

Live CD 4.0 strange issue

Hi,

I just gave 4.0 a try. I booted up the ISO from USB with GRUB4DOS, which is working fine when I boot it in VMware. But a native boot my machine fails for some reason.

I get asked for login in console-mode because it seems theres a problem with loading some graphics stuff. How ever, I can login with root/root, but when i want to start the UI with startx,it fails to load that graphical stuff. I'm not very fimiliar with linux, so I don't realy get whats goin wrong there.

This is my menu.lst entry:

title Slitaz 4.0

map /slitaz-4.0.iso (hd32)

map --hook

root (hd32)

kernel /boot/bzImage lang=de_DE kmap=de-latin1 rw root=/dev/null autologin

initrd /boot/rootfs4.gz /boot/rootfs3.gz /boot/rootfs2.gz /boot/rootfs1.gz

Maybe something is wrong with it, but like I said... VMware works, and basicly I assumed that lines from .cfg the ISO's boot folder. So I think this is possibly be a bug? - v3 works fine so far...

Any ideas?

bellard

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 657

Re: Live CD 4.0 strange issue

try :

map --mem --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 /slitaz-4.0.iso (hd32)

surviver

Member

Registered: 2012-05-07

Posts: 7

Re: Live CD 4.0 strange issue

Thanks for that fast reply. But still the same problem.

Fatal server error:  No Display found.

GTk-Warning: No Screens found 0:0

It just dislikes my monitor? (DELL U2311H)

I also can hear the Powerup-click of my Soundcard, so that means the OS is actually ready to me.

/edit

I just bruned to a CD, same problem...

This seem like a problem with my GTX 560 or the monitor in my eyes.

/edit 2

Well, Gtk-only Mode works. Whats happening there?

That one is not really the solution...

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Live CD 4.0 strange issue

Gtkonly has no nv or intel video driver xorg-xf86-video-vesa universal driver only.

Try booting core:

Edit menu.lst

kernel

After auto_login

[c]nomodeset[/c]

surviver

Member

Registered: 2012-05-07

Posts: 7

Re: Live CD 4.0 strange issue

No changes...

I also tried: noapic nolapic edd=on nodmraid nomodeset

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Live CD 4.0 strange issue

Edit menu.lst

kernel

After auto_login

Add [c]screen=text[/c]

Boot core to login prompt

Login root, password: root

Remove video drivers not in gtkonly:

tazpkg remove xorg-xf86-video-nv

tazpkg remove xorg-xf86-video-intel

Start xorg-server with slim login manager:

/etc/init.d/slim start

surviver

Member

Registered: 2012-05-07

Posts: 7

Re: Live CD 4.0 strange issue

I gave that a try and got a graphical login-screen. But then it fails to execute the login command and I'm not able to do anything else than typing some login-data.

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Live CD 4.0 strange issue

Try login as root password root.

If you can then login failure is caused by fat16/fat32/ntfs filesystems.

Format partition to ext3 filesystem where SliTaz is installed.

surviver

Member

Registered: 2012-05-07

Posts: 7

Re: Live CD 4.0 strange issue

Slitaz is not installed yet, so the filestystem is cdfs.

I would try to install it to a ext3 USB later.

I had a look at the install guide, and just to verify my bottom line...

- extract all the rootfsX.gz to a ext3 USB, use cpio

- add vmlinuz-2.6.34-slitaz to GRUB-Bootloader

- Boot it

(I know I have to match the kernel version to v4.0)

surviver

Member

Registered: 2012-05-07

Posts: 7

Re: Live CD 4.0 strange issue

Ok I tried that yesturday, with no success.

The MBR just don't find the bootloader (GRUB4DOS and GRUB2 neither) if my USB drive is formated to ext2/3. FAT/NTFS is no problem, but like you already said... slitaz seem not to be able to read it correctly.

Well, for now I just stick back to v3.

I think removing the nv-X.org-package is more a loophole than a solution anyways.

But thanks for your help.

Slitaz is a real nice project to me.