After using the cooking iso I downloaded today (because rootfs.gz was not detected on the boot cd) and mounting it on /media/cdrom, I had troubles with a reboot, grub had no entries but only a grub> prompt. so I tried reinstalling slitaz and looked at the installation logfile and it had the following start_installer: Sun May 2 20:21:15 UTC 2010 mount: mounting /dev/hdb on /media/cdrom failed: No medium found ask_for_target_dev: /dev/sda3 ask_for_target_dev: /dev/sda3 mkfs_target_dev: clean removing target: bin removing target: boot removing target: dev removing target: etc keeping /home found on: /dev/sda3 removing target: init removing target: lib removing target: media removing target: mnt removing target: proc removing target: root removing target: sbin removing target: sys removing target: target removing target: tmp removing target: usr removing target: var install_kernel: vmlinuz-2.6.25.5-slitaz
LZMA 4.57 Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Igor Pavlov 2007-12-06 grub_config: /mnt/target/boot/grub/menu.lst install_files: OK Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. The file /mnt/target/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly. end_of_install: Sun May 2 20:24:06 UTC 2010
Which makes me think that slitaz borked my grub installation. I have not been able to restore it using supergrub yet. I am downloading an ubuntu iso with the hope that it can restore grub properly.