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slitaz 3.0 problem booting from multiboot USB
  • shy_guestshy_guest March 2010
    slitaz 3.0 booted perfectly when alone on a USB key initialised with unetbootin.

    I use a large USB key with 10 different Linux distros on it in iso format & its own grub menu in GrubDOS 0.4.4.

    I added slitaz 3.0 on it yesterday & modified the boot script which worked for slitaz 2.0 by changing 2.0 to 3.0 :

    title Boot SliTaz 3.0
    find --set-root /slitaz-3.0.iso
    map --mem /slitaz-3.0.iso (hd32)
    map --hook
    chainloader (hd32)
    boot

    I then tried to boot slitaz 3.0 & got this error from Grub :

    Error 62: The number of heads must be specified. The “–Heads=0″ option tells map to choose a value (but may be unsuitable for you) ...

    After searching on the web for this error, which seems to come from a modification of the MBR, I tried changing line 3 to :

    map --mem --head=0 --sectors-per-track=0 /slitaz-3.0.iso (hd32)

    & got an error saying there was an unrecognizable device string. Same thing when I tried removing --mem from the line.

    Is there anyone wiser than me who understands what is going wrong or how to make it work ?



  • huevoteshuevotes March 2010
    I had that same problem too. I found the same information you found, and it didn't help. So i just installed it manually to my 8gb usb from an iso.
    http://www.slitaz.org/en/doc/handbook/install.html
    I added the "rootdelay=10" to the grub entry, to prevent the kernel panic,
    and it works great.

    But I also would like to know how to make it boot from the iso.
    The cooking version worked, I don't see why this one doesn't.

    any help? anyone?

  • OldYogiOldYogi April 2010
    Strange, I've had no problem using the same code:

    title Boot SliTaz 3.0
    find --set-root /slitaz-3.0.iso
    map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 --mem /slitaz-3.0.iso (hd32)
    map --hook
    chainloader (hd32)
    boot

    this boots off an 8gb usb set up using Grub4Dos installed with the MultibootUSB script downloaded from PendriveLinux.com.
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