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jag

Member

Registered: 2011-06-29

Posts: 10

failing to boot Slitaz "Cooking" USB

i cannot boot Slitaz "Cooking" through a USB flash drive.

i created one USB through Unetbootin. Another was made from inside SLitaz 3.0 with Tazusb LiveUSB Tool.

I get to the main boot page. Then it goes through a few text screens. then a few more smaller text screen. then a GUI language and keyboard selection screen. After that it gets stuck at a black screen with a blinking cursor. i have tried differnt USB sticks and differnt computers.

i was able to run slitaz cooking inside virtualbox in windows. how can i successfuly boot the cooking version through a USB?

neofidodido

Member

Registered: 2011-06-24

Posts: 25

Re: failing to boot Slitaz "Cooking" USB

I had the same problem.

Try LILIUSB instead of UNETEBOOTING

If you have a laptop, try typing "slitaz laptop" in te boot option.

vtailor

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Registered: 2011-04-09

Posts: 34

Re: failing to boot Slitaz "Cooking" USB

I don't think the booting method matters: When I boot slitaz 3.0 on my sandybridge desktop, the vesa x-windows works fine, but the lan driver does not work, no eth0. If I boot slitaz cooking on the same desktop, I get the initial screens for changing language and keyboard, but after the screen goes blank. Since I also took the trouble of putting the rootfs.gz onto a partition of my hard drive, I was able to check Xorg.0.log and Xorg.1.log from another version of Linux (RIPLinuX), and I ascertained that the slitaz-cooking was unable to find a screen from the built-in vesa. I am not sure about the lan, but I know that the e1000e.ko driver is needed to make the lan chip work on my Intel sandybridge, and that is not an included driver in either 3.0 or cooking.

(Hard drive: lzcat rootfs.gz | cpio -i plus add a /boot directory with bzImage copied into it.)

vtailor

Member

Registered: 2011-04-09

Posts: 34

Re: failing to boot Slitaz "Cooking" USB

I went back to my pineview Intel desktop and used the unetootin flash drive to install slitaz-cooking on a spare partition. Then, I booted up the spare partition and used tazx to install the complete Intel video driver for slitaz-cooking and rebooted to verify that it works. It does work, but it needs 'LVDS-1:d' on the grub or grub2 command line to get around a Linux kernel and xorg problem common to all systems. Then, I re-booted to another Linux (RIP) and mounted the slitaz-cooking partition so that I could do a .cgz copy of slitaz:

'find bin boot ... | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -9 > rootfslive.cgz'

I copied the rootfslive.cgz to the slitaz flash drive and moved it to a spare partition of the Intel sandybridge machine and did 'zcat rootfslive.cgz | cpio -i' on the sandybridge slitaz partition. Adjusted etc/mtab and etc/fstab to match the sandybridge machine, then rebooted using the 'LVDS-1:d' grub command-line option. Et voila, it worked perfectly, including the lan eth0 driver. So, basically, slitaz-cooking can be gotten to work on sandybridge, but it needs the extra xorg components, which make rootfslive.cgz around 50 megabytes in size.