boinc???

[wacojohn]

I was OK, I think, until finish of 5a. guest@porteus:/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC$ boincmgr
bash: boincmgr: command not found
guest@porteus:/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC$

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guest@porteus:~$ mkdir /tmp/bnc
guest@porteus:~$ for b in  BOINC/boinc*; do ! [[ $b =~ png$ ]] && mv $b /tmp/bnc; done
guest@porteus:~$ sudo cp boinc-7.2.42.i686.xzm /mnt/sda1/porteus/modules

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

    #1) Respect the privacy of others.
    #2) Think before you type.
    #3) With great power comes great responsibility.

Password:
guest@porteus:~$ ls -lh /mnt/sda1/porteus/modules
total 59M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  25M Oct 19 14:59 boinc-7.2.42.i686.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.1M Oct 14 01:16 flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.521-i386-1alien.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  30M Oct 13 21:35 nVidia-304.123-porteus-v3.1-i486-1ftm.xzm
guest@porteus:~$ sudo mkdir /mnt/sda1/disk
guest@porteus:~$ sudo chmod a+rw /mnt/sda1/disk
guest@porteus:~$ cp -a BOINC /mnt/sda1/disk
guest@porteus:~$ du -sh /mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC
4.3M	/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC
guest@porteus:~$ #!/bin/bash
guest@porteus:~$ cd  /mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC
guest@porteus:/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC$ boincmgr
bash: boincmgr: command not found
guest@porteus:/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC$

Edit:
There is a boincmgr in /home/guest/Desktop/BOINC/ but not in /mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC ... if that helps.

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guest@porteus:/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC$ ls
binstall.sh         boincmgr.32x32.png  ca-bundle.crt  run_client*   skins/
boincmgr.16x16.png  boincmgr.48x48.png  locale/        run_manager*
guest@porteus:/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC$ 

[Bogomips]

^ 5a(i) Create script boinc_mgr

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#!/bin/bash
cd  /mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC
boincmgr

A file boinc_mgr has to be created, the contents of which are shown. Do this with

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cat > boinc_mgr

This now waits for text input from terminal. Paste in the above contents at the prompt. Hit Enter followed by ^D (Ctl+d) to signify End of Data. Verify contents

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cat boinc_mgr

Once done, complete remaining steps.

[wacojohn]

^ 5a(i) Create script boinc_mgr

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#!/bin/bash
cd  /mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC
boincmgr

A file boinc_mgr has to be created, the contents of which are shown. Do this with

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cat > boinc_mgr

This now waits for text input from terminal. Paste in the above contents at the prompt. Hit Enter followed by ^D (Ctl+d) to signify End of Data. Verify contents

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cat boinc_mgr

Once done, complete remaining steps.

Got so far as reboot. Looking at a black screen.

Invalid PBLK length [5]
VFS: Unable to mount root re on unknown block(2,0)
Kernel Offset: 0x0 from .....
[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root vs on unknown-block (2,0)
random: unblocking pool is initialized

and that is where it sits. Willing to start over ..NEW install from CD if you are, but instructions must be simplified. Listed step by step with exactly what to type and how. When you say Select All, I don't know if that means select (multiple lines) and paste into terminal or enter each line separately. You have put so much into this, this time around needs to be clearly effective or I can't follow it.
I stand by to take your preference.

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Accessing HD via CD boot LIVE

Contents of /mnt/sda1/boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg. NOTICE 3 SEPARATE LINES

APPEND initrd=initrd.xz changes=/porteus fsck timezone=US/Central utc
cliexec=boinc~--dir~/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC~--daemon
guiexec=/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC/boinc_mgr

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PROMPT 0
TIMEOUT 90
UI vesamenu.c32
DEFAULT XFCE
MENU BACKGROUND porteus.png
MENU TITLE Porteus-3.1 32bit

MENU WIDTH 30
MENU MARGIN 2
MENU ROWS 10
MENU HELPMSGROW 17
MENU TIMEOUTROW 28
MENU TABMSGROW 15
MENU CMDLINEROW 22
MENU HSHIFT 4
MENU VSHIFT 5

	menu color screen	37;40      #00000000 #00000000 none
	menu color border	30;44      #00000000 #00000000 none
	menu color title	1;36;44    #ffF6FF00 #30003f07 none
	menu color unsel	37;44      #ffffffff #00000000 none
	menu color hotkey	1;37;44    #ff8037b7 #00000000 none
	menu color sel		7;37;40    #ff111B78 #003f7fbf none
	menu color hotsel	1;7;37;40  #ffaf67f7 #003f7fbf none
	menu color scrollbar	30;44      #00000000 #00000000 none

	menu color tabmsg	31;40      #ffB6F538 #00000000 none
	menu color cmdmark	1;36;40    #ffff0000 #00000000 none
	menu color cmdline	37;40      #ffffffff #ff000000 none
	menu color pwdborder	30;47      #ffff0000 #00000000 std
	menu color pwdheader	31;47      #ffff0000 #00000000 std
	menu color pwdentry	30;47      #ffff0000 #00000000 std
	menu color timeout_msg	37;40      #ff809aef #00000000 none
	menu color timeout	1;37;40    #ffb72f9f #00000000 none
	menu color help		37;40      #ffD5F538 #00000000 none
	menu color msg07	37;40      #90ffffff #00000000 std


LABEL XFCE
MENU LABEL Graphics mode (XFCE)
KERNEL vmlinuz
LABEL XFCE
MENU LABEL Graphics mode (XFCE)
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.xz changes=/porteus fsck timezone=US/Central utc
cliexec=boinc~--dir~/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC~--daemon
guiexec=/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC/boinc_mgr
TEXT HELP
    Run Porteus the best way we can.
    Try to autoconfigure graphics
    card and use the maximum
    allowed resolution
ENDTEXT

LABEL fresh
MENU LABEL Always Fresh
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.xz nomagic base_only norootcopy fsck timezone=US/Central utc
TEXT HELP
    Normally Porteus saves all changes
    to the /porteus/changes/ directory
    on the boot media (if writable)
    and restores them next boot.
    Use this option to start a fresh
    system, changes are not read from
    or written to any device
ENDTEXT

LABEL copy2ram
MENU LABEL Copy To RAM
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.xz copy2ram fsck timezone=US/Central utc
TEXT HELP
    Run Porteus the same as above,
    but first copy all data to RAM
    to get a huge speed increase
    (needs >768MB)
ENDTEXT

LABEL text
MENU LABEL Text mode
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.xz 3 fsck timezone=US/Central utc
TEXT HELP
    Run Porteus in text mode and
    start the command prompt only
ENDTEXT

LABEL pxe-boot
MENU LABEL Porteus as PXE server
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.xz pxe fsck timezone=US/Central utc
TEXT HELP
    Run Porteus as usual, but also
    initialize a PXE server.
    This will allow you to boot Porteus
    on other computers over a network
ENDTEXT

MENU SEPARATOR

LABEL plop
MENU LABEL PLoP BootManager
KERNEL plpbt
TEXT HELP
    Run the plop boot manager.
    This utility provides handy
    boot-USB options for machines
    with vintage/defective BIOS
ENDTEXT

LABEL hd
MENU LABEL Boot from the first hd
COM32 chain.c32
APPEND hd0 1
TEXT HELP
    Don't start Porteus at all, but
    rather run any operating system
    installed on the first partition
    of the hard drive
ENDTEXT

I also tried it as all on one line:

APPEND initrd=initrd.xz changes=/porteus fsck timezone=US/Central utc cliexec=boinc~--dir~/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC~--daemon guiexec=/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC/boinc_mgr

Same failure either way.

[Bogomips]

^ At the moment see no reason for new install. Need some info, so from CD can you run

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du -sh  /mnt/sda1/porteus/changes
ls -lh /mnt/sda1/porteus/{,base,modules,optional}
ls -lh /mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC
cat /mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC/boinc_mgr

Then reboot from HD with step by step account, what you see on screen, and whether you do get to a screen offering a booting choice. Whether the gui boot choice was taken. Does it say it has found any modules before the Kernel panic?

[wacojohn]

^ At the moment see no reason for new install. Need some info, so from CD can you run

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du -sh  /mnt/sda1/porteus/changes
ls -lh /mnt/sda1/porteus/{,base,modules,optional}
ls -lh /mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC
cat /mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC/boinc_mgr

Then reboot from HD with step by step account, what you see on screen, and whether you do get to a screen offering a booting choice. Whether the gui boot choice was taken. Does it say it has found any modules before the Kernel panic?

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guest@porteus:~$ sudo du -sh  /mnt/sda1/porteus/changes

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

    #1) Respect the privacy of others.
    #2) Think before you type.
    #3) With great power comes great responsibility.

Password:
156M	/mnt/sda1/porteus/changes
guest@porteus:~$ ls -lh /mnt/sda1/porteus/{,base,modules,optional}
/mnt/sda1/porteus/:
total 28K
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 13 23:18 base/
dr-xr-xr-x 14 root root 4.0K Oct 13 21:35 changes/
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 1015 Oct 13 21:35 make_iso.sh*
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 19 14:59 modules/
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 13 21:35 optional/
-r--r--r--  1 root root  437 Oct 13 21:35 porteus-v3.1-i486.sgn
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 13 21:35 rootcopy/

/mnt/sda1/porteus/base:
total 166M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  17M Oct 13 21:32 000-kernel.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  46M Oct 13 21:33 001-core.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K Jan 24  2015 001-core_alldesktops-150124.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  44M Oct 13 21:34 002-xorg.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12K Jan 26  2015 002-xorg_alldesktops-150126.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  25M Oct 13 21:34 003-xfce.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 352K Jan 24  2015 004-xfce_fixes-150124.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K Oct 13 21:34 0099-settings.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  35M Oct 13 21:35 04-firefox.xzm

/mnt/sda1/porteus/modules:
total 59M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  25M Oct 19 14:59 boinc-7.2.42.i686.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.1M Oct 14 01:16 flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.521-i386-1alien.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  30M Oct 13 21:35 nVidia-304.123-porteus-v3.1-i486-1ftm.xzm

/mnt/sda1/porteus/optional:
total 0
guest@porteus:~$ ls -lh /mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC
total 808K
-rw-r--r--  1 guest guest  219 Feb 28  2014 binstall.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 guest guest   46 Oct 19 17:16 boinc_mgr*
-rw-r--r--  1 guest guest  815 Feb 28  2014 boincmgr.16x16.png
-rw-r--r--  1 guest guest 2.4K Feb 28  2014 boincmgr.32x32.png
-rw-r--r--  1 guest guest 5.5K Feb 28  2014 boincmgr.48x48.png
-rw-r--r--  1 guest guest 762K Feb 28  2014 ca-bundle.crt
drwxr-xr-x 39 guest guest 4.0K Feb 28  2014 locale/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 guest guest   42 Oct 19 10:22 run_client*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 guest guest   45 Oct 19 10:22 run_manager*
drwxr-xr-x  3 guest guest 4.0K Feb 28  2014 skins/
guest@porteus:~$ cat /mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC/boinc_mgr
#!/bin/bash
cd  /mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC
boincmgr
guest@porteus:~$ 

I will be back to post the boot screens .... to the best of my ability. Wait for it.

Edit
Shut down, remove CD. Pwr up, b/w screen flashes by VERY FAST. Only make out first word SYSLINUX and saw the word MISSING. Then colored screen titled Porteus-3.1 32 bit w/ choices like Always Fresh and Copy to RAM etc. Then b/w screen Loading VMLINUZ .... ready. Those 5 errors and stops. I summarized those errors above.

Edit 2
Tried again. From HD. At the colored screen, I selected XFCE (I have never done that before) and I am now at my Desktop. Yes, loading modules was mentioned.

EDIT 3
and ... there is a Boinc Manager Icon on the System Menu.

EDIT 4
Thought I should wait ... but could not resist. Ran Boinc Manager from the menu. It opened, then a long wait .. something about 'status' .. then, gives error:

Unable to connect to the core client

[Bogomips]

^ Good. Shown bit of initiative. Can you do

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cd ~
md5sum /mnt/sda1/porteus/modules/boinc-7.2.42.i686.xzm

Also provide output of steps 5c i & ii?

[wacojohn]

^ Good. Shown bit of initiative. Can you do

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cd ~
md5sum /mnt/sda1/porteus/modules/boinc-7.2.42.i686.xzm

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guest@porteus:~$ cd ~
guest@porteus:~$ md5sum /mnt/sda1/porteus/modules/boinc-7.2.42.i686.xzm
3367499251a5f8b7508af5859d0d3d48  /mnt/sda1/porteus/modules/boinc-7.2.42.i686.xzm
guest@porteus:~$ 

Also provide output of steps 5c i & ii?

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guest@porteus:~$ cat /proc/cmdline
quiet initrd=initrd.xz changes=/porteus fsck timezone=US/Central utc BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz 
guest@porteus:~$ cat /var/log/porteus-livedbg
# Recognized devices:
/dev/sda1: LABEL="Porteus" UUID="c939d1c2-09d0-40c5-ad05-b731ccf9d66d" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/sda2: LABEL="Porteus Swap" UUID="dd28b0f1-74ea-455a-8ca7-ba09e4dfc9d6" TYPE="swap" 

# Booting device:
/mnt/sda1

# Porteus data found in:
/mnt/sda1/porteus

# Changes are stored in:
/porteus

# Non standard /rootcopy dir:
none

# Modules activated during boot time:
/mnt/sda1/porteus/base/000-kernel.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/base/001-core.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/base/001-core_alldesktops-150124.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/base/002-xorg.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/base/002-xorg_alldesktops-150126.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/base/003-xfce.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/base/004-xfce_fixes-150124.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/base/0099-settings.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/base/04-firefox.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/modules/boinc-7.2.42.i686.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/modules/flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.540-i386-1alien.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/modules/nVidia-304.123-porteus-v3.1-i486-1ftm.xzm




guest@porteus:~$ sudo du -sh  /mnt/sda1/porteus/changes
Password:
712M	/mnt/sda1/porteus/changes
guest@porteus:~$

[Bogomips]

^ Output of 5c ii. is missing.

Please also ensure this is the case:

I also tried it as all on one line:
APPEND initrd=initrd.xz changes=/porteus fsck timezone=US/Central utc cliexec=boinc~--dir~/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC~--daemon guiexec=/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC/boinc_mgr

Then reboot and provide output of 5c i. & 5c ii. Steps.

[wacojohn]

^ Output of 5c ii. is missing.

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guest@porteus:~$ ls -lh /mnt/sda1/porteus/{,base,modules,optional}
/mnt/sda1/porteus/:
total 28K
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 13 23:18 base/
dr-xr-xr-x 14 root root 4.0K Oct 13 21:35 changes/
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 1015 Oct 13 21:35 make_iso.sh*
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 20 05:50 modules/
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 13 21:35 optional/
-r--r--r--  1 root root  437 Oct 13 21:35 porteus-v3.1-i486.sgn
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 13 21:35 rootcopy/

/mnt/sda1/porteus/base:
total 166M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  17M Oct 13 21:32 000-kernel.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  46M Oct 13 21:33 001-core.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K Jan 24  2015 001-core_alldesktops-150124.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  44M Oct 13 21:34 002-xorg.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12K Jan 26  2015 002-xorg_alldesktops-150126.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  25M Oct 13 21:34 003-xfce.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 352K Jan 24  2015 004-xfce_fixes-150124.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K Oct 13 21:34 0099-settings.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  35M Oct 13 21:35 04-firefox.xzm

/mnt/sda1/porteus/modules:
total 59M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  25M Oct 19 14:59 boinc-7.2.42.i686.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.1M Oct 20 05:49 flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.540-i386-1alien.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  30M Oct 13 21:35 nVidia-304.123-porteus-v3.1-i486-1ftm.xzm

/mnt/sda1/porteus/optional:
total 0
guest@porteus:~$ lsblk | grep loop
loop0    7:0    0    16M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/000-kernel.xzm
loop1    7:1    0    46M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/001-core.xzm
loop2    7:2    0     4K  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/001-core_alldesktops-15
loop3    7:3    0  43.7M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/002-xorg.xzm
loop4    7:4    0    12K  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/002-xorg_alldesktops-15
loop5    7:5    0  24.6M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/003-xfce.xzm
loop6    7:6    0   352K  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/004-xfce_fixes-150124.x
loop7    7:7    0     4K  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/0099-settings.xzm
loop8    7:8    0  34.4M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/04-firefox.xzm
loop9    7:9    0  24.7M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/boinc-7.2.42.i686.xzm
loop10   7:10   0     5M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/flashplayer-plugin-11.2
guest@porteus:~$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           500        476         23          0         15         83
-/+ buffers/cache:        377        122
Swap:         1534         92       1442
guest@porteus:~$ df -h ~
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
aufs            7.6G  963M  6.3G  14% /
guest@porteus:~$ ps -e | grep boinc
guest@porteus:~$ 

Please also ensure this is the case:

I also tried it as all on one line:
APPEND initrd=initrd.xz changes=/porteus fsck timezone=US/Central utc cliexec=boinc~--dir~/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC~--daemon guiexec=/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC/boinc_mgr

It was NOT like that. It is now. I assume I need a reboot now ... so .... I will.

EDIT:
Something went bad. Had to boot from CD. Cannot document problem at this very moment. Assumed I edited that correction .. the APPEND line, wrong so booted up CD and looked again. Here is what it says:

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LABEL XFCE
MENU LABEL Graphics mode (XFCE)
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.xz changes=/porteus fsck timezone=US/Central utc cliexec=boinc~--dir~/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC~--daemon guiexec=/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC/boinc_mgr
TEXT HELP
    Run Porteus the best way we can.
    Try to autoconfigure graphics
    card and use the maximum
    allowed resolution
ENDTEXT

and I don't see anything wrong with it. Now .. to document the boot failure.

EDIT:
No boot failure THIS TIME. Instead, boots to desktop just fine ... AND Boinc Mgr runs automatically. Get its ADVANCED screen ... on NOTICES tab and at the bottom of the window says:

Disconnected

Because I have not configured any projects????? I did not want to get ahead of things.

[Bogomips]

^ Not wishing to get ahead of things, now need output of 5c i & 5c ii. following successful boot. If everything looks good, think it would be best to lock it all up in an iso fille, which can then be salted away and used in the event should everything have to be once more restarted from scratch,

[wacojohn]

^ Not wishing to get ahead of things, now need output of 5c i

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Password: 
root@porteus:~# cat /proc/cmdline
quiet initrd=initrd.xz changes=/porteus fsck timezone=US/Central utc cliexec=boinc~--dir~/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC~--daemon guiexec=/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC/boinc_mgr BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz 
root@porteus:~# cat /var/log/porteus-livedbg
# Recognized devices:
/dev/sda1: LABEL="Porteus" UUID="c939d1c2-09d0-40c5-ad05-b731ccf9d66d" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/sda2: LABEL="Porteus Swap" UUID="dd28b0f1-74ea-455a-8ca7-ba09e4dfc9d6" TYPE="swap" 

# Booting device:
/mnt/sda1

# Porteus data found in:
/mnt/sda1/porteus

# Changes are stored in:
/porteus

# Non standard /rootcopy dir:
none

# Modules activated during boot time:
/mnt/sda1/porteus/base/000-kernel.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/base/001-core.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/base/001-core_alldesktops-150124.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/base/002-xorg.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/base/002-xorg_alldesktops-150126.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/base/003-xfce.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/base/004-xfce_fixes-150124.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/base/0099-settings.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/base/04-firefox.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/modules/boinc-7.2.42.i686.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/modules/flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.540-i386-1alien.xzm
/mnt/sda1/porteus/modules/nVidia-304.123-porteus-v3.1-i486-1ftm.xzm
root@porteus:~# du -sh  /mnt/sda1/porteus/changes
714M	/mnt/sda1/porteus/changes
root@porteus:~# 

& 5c ii. following successful boot.

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root@porteus:~# ls -lh /mnt/sda1/porteus/{,base,modules,optional}
/mnt/sda1/porteus/:
total 28K
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 13 23:18 base/
dr-xr-xr-x 14 root root 4.0K Oct 13 21:35 changes/
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 1015 Oct 13 21:35 make_iso.sh*
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 20 05:50 modules/
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 13 21:35 optional/
-r--r--r--  1 root root  437 Oct 13 21:35 porteus-v3.1-i486.sgn
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 13 21:35 rootcopy/

/mnt/sda1/porteus/base:
total 166M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  17M Oct 13 21:32 000-kernel.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  46M Oct 13 21:33 001-core.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K Jan 24  2015 001-core_alldesktops-150124.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  44M Oct 13 21:34 002-xorg.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12K Jan 26  2015 002-xorg_alldesktops-150126.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  25M Oct 13 21:34 003-xfce.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 352K Jan 24  2015 004-xfce_fixes-150124.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K Oct 13 21:34 0099-settings.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  35M Oct 13 21:35 04-firefox.xzm

/mnt/sda1/porteus/modules:
total 59M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  25M Oct 19 14:59 boinc-7.2.42.i686.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.1M Oct 20 05:49 flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.540-i386-1alien.xzm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  30M Oct 13 21:35 nVidia-304.123-porteus-v3.1-i486-1ftm.xzm

/mnt/sda1/porteus/optional:
total 0
root@porteus:~# lsblk | grep loop
loop0    7:0    0    16M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/000-kernel.xzm
loop1    7:1    0    46M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/001-core.xzm
loop2    7:2    0     4K  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/001-core_alldesktops-15
loop3    7:3    0  43.7M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/002-xorg.xzm
loop4    7:4    0    12K  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/002-xorg_alldesktops-15
loop5    7:5    0  24.6M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/003-xfce.xzm
loop6    7:6    0   352K  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/004-xfce_fixes-150124.x
loop7    7:7    0     4K  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/0099-settings.xzm
loop8    7:8    0  34.4M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/04-firefox.xzm
loop9    7:9    0  24.7M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/boinc-7.2.42.i686.xzm
loop10   7:10   0     5M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/flashplayer-plugin-11.2
root@porteus:~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           500        493          6          0         34        109
-/+ buffers/cache:        349        150
Swap:         1534        117       1417
root@porteus:~# df -h ~
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
aufs            7.6G  964M  6.3G  14% /
root@porteus:~# ps -e | grep boinc
 1065 ?        00:01:14 boinc
 1899 ?        00:00:09 boincmgr
root@porteus:~# 

If everything looks good, think it would be best to lock it all up in an iso fille, which can then be salted away and used in the event should everything have to be once more restarted from scratch,

Fair enough. I do not have CD burning hardware, but can probably get the ISO on a thumb drive ... if I can figure out how to mount it. We can embrace this at the time. Thank you. Will await your next instructions.

[Bogomips]

^ Everything looks good. Add some projects, then give me output of Step 5c (iii). All future manipulations will not truncate any boinc processing that's going on, just only interrupting.

[wacojohn]

^ Everything looks good. Add some projects

Boinc Manager advanced view. Says 'Disconnected' at the bottom of the window. Click TOOLS/ADD PROJECT OR ACCOUNT MANAGER. 'Disconnected' changes to CONNECTING TO LOCAL HOST and within 2 seconds, back to DISCONNECTED.

[Bogomips]

Try editing /mnt/sda1/boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg to take out changes=/porteus so that append line looks like this:

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APPEND initrd=initrd.xz fsck timezone=US/Central utc cliexec=boinc~--dir~/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC~--daemon guiexec=/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC/boinc_mgr

and reboot.

[wacojohn]

Try editing /mnt/sda1/boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg to take out changes=/porteus so that append line looks like this:

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APPEND initrd=initrd.xz fsck timezone=US/Central utc cliexec=boinc~--dir~/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC~--daemon guiexec=/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC/boinc_mgr

and reboot.

Did the edit and rebooted. Desktop came up ... but clean ... as in missing files/folders I had saved there. FIREFOX comes up .. with zero extensions installed. Boinc Manager comes up but still stays disconnected.

Here is the EDITED section of porteus.cfg:

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LABEL XFCE
MENU LABEL Graphics mode (XFCE)
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.xz fsck timezone=US/Central utc cliexec=boinc~--dir~/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC~--daemon guiexec=/mnt/sda1/disk/BOINC/boinc_mgr
TEXT HELP
    Run Porteus the best way we can.
    Try to autoconfigure graphics
    card and use the maximum
    allowed resolution
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