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I have no knowledge of syslinux/isolinux and c32box.c32
I am trying to help tmoulder to get rolling to work on a Asus poulsbo netbook http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/noob-on-a-gma500/page/2
Stick and CD are stopping on the copyright line ending in "Peter Alvin"
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Problems with usb booting are often down to the system timing out before it finds its root filesystem.
Try adding 'rootdelay=9' on the kernel line of the grub bootloader.
(I have added the above to his thread also.)
Can you retry with http://mirror.slitaz.org/~bellard/slitaz-rolling-textmenu.iso ?
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Hi guys,
Thanks again for the help, I tried it with the textmenu iso and wound up at the Welcome to your box prompt again.
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that sounds very strange - so I have to aske more questions - I hope you are still willing to continue?
did you try any other linux cd that booted?
how advanced are you? - can you work with midnight commander? its normally easier than with commandline + nano?
can you mount devices by hand?
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Verify http://mirror.slitaz.org/~bellard/slitaz-rolling-textmenu.iso has linux-staging which owns psb_gfx
Boot to Welcome to your box.
Login as root password: root
Type this:
[c]tazpkg search linux-staging[/c]
Hit Enter key
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@ mojo, I think we should get out his Xorg.0.log to see what is the problem
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Hi guys, sorry I've been too tied up to get back to you this week. I really appreciate your efforts.
I went back to using pendrivelinux and it seems to be working fine for the live usb.
mojo, linux-staging is not installed.
tell me how to pull the log from CLI and I'll get it for you. startx reports "Fatal server error no screens found
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get root
mount /dev/sdb1 /media/flash ... check name of your usbstick with: fdisk -l
install midnight commander with: tazpkg -gi mc
open midnight commander with : mc
and copy /var/log/Xorg.0.log to /media/flash
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Mount command returns can't find /dev/sdb1 in /etc/fstab
I can nano the file and see it, too much to type up verbatim, but here are a few things I noticed
It loads module "fbdev" and identifies it, then Vesa. It loads sub module fbdevhw. then an error: open /dev/fb0: no such file or directory
It then says falling back to old probe method for vesa, unloads fbdev, fbdevhw, and vesa.
then it says screens found but none have a usable configuration
Thanks!
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did you check the name of your usb-stick as root with: fdisk -l
maybe its sda1 or sdc 1 ???
but the description is now enough - can you do all this as root
tazpkg remove xorg-xf86-video-vesa
tazpkg -gi linux-staging
modprobe psb_gfx
exit to get user tux and startx
and now attach the xorg.0.log
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On tazpkg -GI linux-staging, I get an error
Cp: target lib/modules/3.2.53-slitaz is not a directory
Modprobe produces fatal module psb_gfx not found
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you have to take newest rolling from today, because there was a big change last week
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