- Porteus-XFCE-v5.0rc2-x86_64.iso
- Porteus-XFCE-v5.0rc3-x86_64.iso
While it works fine on previous versions:
- Porteus-XFCE-v4.0-x86_64.iso (and others desktops)
- Porteus-XFCE-v5.0rc1-x86_64.iso
At boot time, the Syslinux Menu appears and allows to choose options but very quickly the system freezes:
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^searching for porteus-v5.0-x86_64.cfg file
^device not ready yet ? delaying 1 seconds
Porteus data not found.
You are maybe using an unsupported boot device
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sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
Here is apparently no reason for it do not to be able to find the files in the "syslinux" folder (e.g.: vmlinuz or initrd.xz) since it has already found "porteus.cfg" and the same for the files in the
folder and subfolders of "porteus" (ex: porteus-v5.0-x86_64.cfg) since it is the same tree of the one of Porteus installed on hard disk (or on usb) and which works very well
it's not practical for most people but in fact I was able to by-pass the bug by modifying the "porteus.cfg" files of the v5.0rc2 and v5.0rc3 ISOs like this:
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LABEL Option_ISO
MENU LABEL Option Iso
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/vmlinuz
INITRD /boot/syslinux/initrd.xz
APPEND from=/dev/sdb1/Porteus-XFCE-v5.0rc3-x86_64.iso
TEXT HELP
from=/dev/sdb1/Porteus-XFCE-v5.0rc3-x86_64.iso
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I guess the bug comes from the last 2 versions of "initrd.xz" scripts...
in any case, it is a pity that last version of Porteus cannot be tested easily by a large number of people with systems such as Ventoy (90%+ distros in distrowatch.com supported * )
Rapha
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