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Nemesis and Porteus on same partition

Posted: 14 Apr 2016, 05:12
by Shoshi
I am interested in running both Porteus and Nemesis on the same partition in different folders. The structure of the folders is shown in the photo below.

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I have Porteus running with KDE, Mate, XFCE, and LXQT using the Syslinux menu and cheatcodes. However, no matter what I try I cannot get Nemesis to boot. It mainly stalls at trying to locate the SGN file. I have used multiple sgnfile=and from= commands to try and get it to boot. The porteus.cfg from the Slackware folder structure is being used. I even appended the porteus.cfg from the Nemesis folder (APPEND /nemesis/boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg) to use the actual Nemesis boot structure to see if that would work and still run into sgn issues.

If anyone has help that would be appreciated! Thanks!

Re: Nemesis and Porteus on same partition

Posted: 14 Apr 2016, 12:01
by francois
See sgnfile= cheatcode:
sgnfile

Re: Nemesis and Porteus on same partition

Posted: 14 Apr 2016, 12:48
by Shoshi
francois wrote:See sgnfile= cheatcode:
sgnfile
Like I have said. I have used various iterations of both the from= and sgnfile= commands. I realize my post was on the long side so you may have just skimmed over it. But I did try to be clear... So if you have more information that would be lovely...

Re: Nemesis and Porteus on same partition

Posted: 14 Apr 2016, 14:05
by francois
I have many porteus installations side by side.

Would you prefer syslinux of grub2? Mine come grub2.

Re: Nemesis and Porteus on same partition

Posted: 14 Apr 2016, 14:22
by tome
@Shoshi
Try this:

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LABEL NEMESIS
MENU LABEL Nemesis
KERNEL /nemesis/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/nemesis/boot/syslinux/initrd.xz from=nemesis 
TEXT HELP
    Run Nemesis
ENDTEXT

Re: Nemesis and Porteus on same partition

Posted: 14 Apr 2016, 16:21
by Bogomips
^ Might work better with from=/nemesis

Re: Nemesis and Porteus on same partition

Posted: 14 Apr 2016, 17:06
by Shoshi
tome wrote:@Shoshi
Try this:

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LABEL NEMESIS
MENU LABEL Nemesis
KERNEL /nemesis/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/nemesis/boot/syslinux/initrd.xz from=nemesis 
TEXT HELP
    Run Nemesis
ENDTEXT
It worked! Thanks so much! Now I just need to figure out why Octopi does not load in Nemesis, Does anyone know?

Re: Nemesis and Porteus on same partition

Posted: 17 Apr 2016, 17:37
by francois
Did you tried guest mode?

Try to start octopi in command line mode and provide the output.