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error during installing on laptop IBMThinkPad using floppy-grub4dos
  • loruelorue August 2010
    Hi everybody
    I am installing slitaz on a laptop IBMThinkpad using floppy-grub4dos. I selected gPXE (LAN boot, PXE or NBI) to install.
    The procces is copying files for a long time. Then when I return to verify the proccess I only see on the screen a lot a messages from a very long Call Trace. What can I do to see the log and could know the problem?? I am supposing the copy of files finished ok and start the instalation.
    Regards
    Lorue
  • bellardbellard August 2010
    Hi,

    Short answer: select gPXE (WAN boot, see http://boot.slitaz.org/)

    Long answer:
    With LAN boot, you are launching your PXE installation (likely NOT SliTaz)
    WAN boot will lauch http://mirror.slitaz.org/pxe/pxelinux.0 (you need an Internet connection). You will get a boot menu. Use default selection.
    Most people who can't boot SliTaz need a larger RAM quantity (at least 160MB).
    The WAN boot will check your RAM size (see http://mirror.slitaz.org/pxe/3.0/menus/main.cfg) and launch the according flavor (core / justx / base / tiny, starting with 24MB).
    If SliTaz boots, you will launch slitaz-installer.

    -pascal
  • loruelorue August 2010
    Hi Pascal/Bellard
    Thank you for the long answer (:-D))
    I just learning about Slitaz
    As I have 64k ram process installed as a Stable 3.0 base
    Then I enter as root/root and type slitaz-installer.
    Now I will follow http://www.slitaz.org/en/doc/handbook/install.html
    for a HD instalation
    Regards
    Lorue
  • loruelorue September 2010
    Hi Pascal/Bellard
    The slitaz-installer looks finished OK. I selected install Grub to MBR.
    But when I want to start Slitaz from Hard Disk, the machine do not find GRUB.
    I have verified on Bios the boot sequence to be shure it is booting from HD.
    How I could verify the installation finished OK??
    Regards
    Lorue
  • loruelorue September 2010
    Hi Pascal/Bellard
    I had just reinstall slitaz using grub4dos
    I had just verified the installation of slitaz with
    # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/target
    and it looks OK.
    I had just verified the boot order and is:
    1) Floppy
    2) HD
    but when I reboot and the bios calls the HD, the grub do not appear on the screen, like if the grub do not exist.
    Regards
    Lorue
  • loruelorue September 2010
    Hi Pascal/Bellard
    Finally I could Install. As all the HD was with Windows format/partition, the solution was to re-format and re-partition all HD to Linux partitons.
    Regards
    Lorue

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