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I've been trying to install SliTaz on an old Libretto that a friend gave me, but I'm having some problems. I've tried a few different things and I've finally come to a brick wall. I'm getting an error on bootup, and I don't know what any of it means. If someone could make sense of it I would be eternally grateful.
'Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3400, size 0x25d3f0]
ERROR: Unable to locate IOAPIC for GSI 13
ERROR: Unable to locate IOPAIC for GSI 1
ERROR: Unable to locate IOPAIC for GSI 12
ERROR: Unable to locate IOPAIC for GSI 8
ERROR: Unable to locate IOPAIC for GSI 5
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.37-slitaz #2
Call Trace:
[<c1378112>] ? printk+0xf/0x11
[<c1378008>] panic+0x50/0x14b
[<c1507b55>] mount_block_root+0x1e5/0x1f9
[<c108a658>] ? sys_mknod+0x13/0x15
[<c1507c6e>] mount_root+0x4c/0x54
[<c1507db6>] prepare_namespace+0x140/0x171
[<c15078ad>] kernel_init+0x17f/0x18e
[<c150772e>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x18e
[<c1003a76>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10'
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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Hello.
This is the same problem than here ?
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/installation/195880-running-slitaz-libretto.html
Your Libretto have a CD reader ? Or a floppy driver ?
You already went into BIOS to verify boot order devices on it ?
And on this PC, there was an OS, agree ? -> so there is a way to put an OS on it, IMHO...don't give up :-)
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That's my thread too. I thought I'd see what help I could get from here.
The Libretto has no CD drive or floppy drive.
I checked the boot order in the BIOS and the only option was the hard drive.
There was an OS on it, so I know it can be done. I've see pages where people have put a Linux distro on a Libretto, but they were all in Japanese, so I couldn't read them.
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@ Jonathan,
How did you install SliTaz? No CD -> from a Live USB?
Run Live (SliTaz 4.0?)
Open a terminal as root
Post result of
[c]fdisk -l[/c]
Post the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst file of your hard disk.
Not sure I can help you before monday; I have to leave today for my job.
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I removed the hard drive from the Libretto and used a live CD to install it to the Libretto's hard drive while it was mounted externally to my main computer.
Here is the fdisk -l result
[c]Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sda2 * 13 121602 976657408 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary
Disk /dev/sdc: 2000.3 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 243202 1953512448 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 121602 976759808 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdd: 6495 MB, 6495068160 bytes
160 heads, 10 sectors/track, 7928 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1600 * 512 = 819200 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 2 7929 6341632 83 Linux[/c]
and here is the /boot/grub/menu.lst file
[c]# /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
# Change the colors.
#color yellow/brown light-green/black
# For booting SliTaz from : /dev/sda1
#
title SliTaz GNU/Linux (cooking) (Kernel vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root=/dev/sda1 quiet[/c]
I hope you can help me with this.
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This kind of issue, from what I saw, is either due to:
- booting from a USB drive, in which case you need to add rootdelay=5 on the grub command line:
[c]kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root=/dev/sda1 rootdelay=5 quiet[/c]
- a wrong sentence on the grub command line. Since you have an old machine, i assume it is IDE base and hence you need to replace in grub command line sda1 with hda1 ie
[c]kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root=/dev/hda1 quiet[/c]
Does it work this way ?
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The switch at the end worked. I changed the sda1 to hda1 and it booted up. But I'm still not all the way where I want to be. For the moment it's just me and my command line. I don't have a GUI. Any hints on how I could get that up? Might I be able to load something from a USB now that I've booted? Any suggestions?
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I am guessing the problem is with the graphic card
what does lspci tell you about the on board graphic ?
the steps are: lspci to determine which graphic hw, do a search on the forum to check if someone already had that problem
To start gui as tux user -> startx (it may tell you why it has not started in the first place)
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@ Christophe,
Well done! I wouldn't have searched this way first because the main PC saw the disk as sdd1; so for me it was not a hd.
@ Jonathan
Concerning the GUI, your problem can come from the RAM too. How many MB do you have?
You installed from another computer, you could fool the installer.
You need at least 192 MB to run SliTaz 4.0. If the Libretto is really old may be you have less.
In this case you should try a previous release like 3.0-Xvesa.
Late and tired. Go to bed.
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@ Ceel
Tx. Unfortunately I have had that specific boot error for about 6 months, before understanding what was wrong. So i had too learn....
The 192 MB limit is for any kind of gui on a frugal system (this is tested when booting). But of course, / uses 100MB in ram, leaving 92MB for the system to run.
Once installed on disk the system will boot with gui with as low as 64 MB (this is why i was knowing Kate's machine should boot). Of course it goes to paging as soon as you try to do anything with some significance (eg, midori).
I do not believe anyone should hold his breath with slitaz on 64MB, some light abiword and gnumeric is possible with 64 MB however. And light browsing eg wth midori with 128MB is realistic (firefox is dissuasive, in my view)
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I've looked up the stats on this old thing, and it is 65MB. I believe I can get more for it though. There are a couple of old specialty shops around I believe.
I did lspci, but I'm not sure what I'm looking for. Would it be the VGA controller? I tried startx, but got a big long page of text telling me it couldn't do it. A long list of errors. One saying it found screen(s) but none have a usable configuration, and another saying no screens found. If I have ONLY the command line and not much RAM, is there really much I can do with this?
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quite frankly given the price of machines today, I would not invest much of anything (time and money) for anything below 128MB.
I have a 256 MB old laptop (10 years) and it happily runs slitaz 3.0 (4.0 is too slow) with a 1.2GHz mobile celeron.
This is barely the minimum i would consider usable (for some websurfing and abiword - I use it to listen to internet radio).
Anything below that configuration will be for the fun and the challenge to ultimatly see an image and a blinking cursor.
Unless you are really needy financially of course, which I respect.
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I'm in the process of building a computer for my girlfriend. I'm thinking when I get that done, I'll keep her old laptop and put a Linux distro on that one. Probably Mint. I picked SliTaz for the Libretto because I saw that it was small and I figured I could get it to run. This is turning out to be more work than I expected. I might try an older version of SliTaz. Someone in the Linux forums mentioned Netinstall. What exactly is that? Might it help me get what I need?
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I suppose this way : http://boot.slitaz.org/en/
I never tried it.
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While i haven't read the replies to this thread, i fixed this by booting in to a liveUSB, then edit my GRUB config to load a proper kernel (they are located in /boot of your disk)
i.e., i updated my kernel to 3.2.40 and got this while booting, so i changed my grub config back to load the 2.6.37 kernel, and it booted just fine.
Hope this helpts.
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@frash23
You installed from an iso with pre-4.0 release version of cooking.
This explains why you update to pre-5.0 cooking kernel 3.2.40
Run this command so you get tazpkgs from the correct repo:
[c]# tazpkg set-release 4.0[/c]
If you don't do it your installing pre-5.0 cooking software from cooking repo which will break your system.
@Jonathan
Netinstall or Network Install:
Booting the computer you wish to install linux on that supports booting with removable media (floppy,cdrom,usb flash drive) or netbooting(pxe,gpxe) that provides a minimal commandline environment with a working network card.
Download linux install files from server over the lan or internet.
Execute the install.
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