Re: Building Blocks
Posted: 03 Feb 2016, 15:11
@ Jack
Are you booting from CD? If not, burn iso to a CD and try booting from it.
Are you booting from CD? If not, burn iso to a CD and try booting from it.
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LABEL text
MENU LABEL Text mode
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.img 3 from=/mnt/sda1/isos/slak/abSlak.iso
TEXT HELP
Run Porteus in text mode and
start the command prompt only
ENDTEXT
I just try it and it just rebooted my computer.Bogomips wrote:Jack, as a last resort there is always neko's usb iso load tool, but before we go there, we can try something else first.
Go to the extracted iso on the usb, and edit porteus.cfg there. Append to every line that begins with APPEND and has initrd.img: from=/mnt/Xy/<Path to>/abSlak.iso. So, if iso is on hdd, in a directory like /isos/slak, new APPEND line would be something like:Then try booting again, and see how it goes.Code: Select all
LABEL text MENU LABEL Text mode KERNEL vmlinuz APPEND initrd=initrd.img 3 from=/mnt/sda1/isos/slak/abSlak.iso TEXT HELP Run Porteus in text mode and start the command prompt only ENDTEXT
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Starting slackware database update
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5 --> DLOADER=wget --passive-ftp --trust-server-names --no-check-certificate --progress=dot -O 2nd Par = /var/usm/slackware /CHECKSUMS.md5 url=http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware//slackware64-14.1/slackware64/CHECKSUMS.md5
DONE
Downloading: MANIFEST.bz2 --> DLOADER=wget --passive-ftp --trust-server-names --no-check-certificate --progress=dot -O 2nd Par = /var/usm/slackware /MANIFEST.bz2 url=http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware//slackware64-14.1/slackware64/MANIFEST.bz2
DONE
Downloading: PACKAGES.TXT --> DLOADER=wget --passive-ftp --trust-server-names --no-check-certificate --progress=dot -O 2nd Par = /var/usm/slackware /PACKAGES.TXT url=http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware//slackware64-14.1/slackware64/PACKAGES.TXT
DONE
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz --> DLOADER=wget --passive-ftp --trust-server-names --no-check-certificate --progress=dot -O 2nd Par = /var/usm/slackware /LIBS.TXT.gz
url=http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/usm/db/slackware/x86_64/LIBS.TXT.gz
DONE
File verification was good.
Optimizing manifest
slackware database updated.
Starting slackwarepatches database update
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5 --> DLOADER=wget --passive-ftp --trust-server-names --no-check-certificate --progress=dot -O 2nd Par = /var/usm/slackwarepatches /CHECKSUMS.md5 url=http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware//slackware64-14.1/patches/CHECKSUMS.md5
DONE
Downloading: MANIFEST.bz2 --> DLOADER=wget --passive-ftp --trust-server-names --no-check-certificate --progress=dot -O 2nd Par = /var/usm/slackwarepatches /MANIFEST.bz2 url=http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware//slackware64-14.1/patches/MANIFEST.bz2
DONE
Downloading: PACKAGES.TXT --> DLOADER=wget --passive-ftp --trust-server-names --no-check-certificate --progress=dot -O 2nd Par = /var/usm/slackwarepatches /PACKAGES.TXT url=http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware//slackware64-14.1/patches/PACKAGES.TXT
DONE
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz --> DLOADER=wget --passive-ftp --trust-server-names --no-check-certificate --progress=dot -O 2nd Par = /var/usm/slackwarepatches /LIBS.TXT.gz url=http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/usm/db/slackwarepatches/x86_64/LIBS.TXT.gz
DONE
File verification was good.
gzip: /var/usm/slackwarepatches/LIBS.TXT.gz: unexpected end of file
==============================================================================
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
==============================================================================
One or more errors occurred while usm was running:
FATAL ERROR!
usm update_database 308
Could not decompress: LIBS.TXT.gz
==============================================================================
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root@darkstar:~# usm -g tree
The following items were found.
Choose an number to confirm.
ctrl+c to quit
1) tree-1.6.0-x86_64-1.txz
2) treeview-0.5-x86_64-1_slack.txz
#? 1
Processing: tree-1.6.0-x86_64-1.txz
The following packages are required.
tree-1.6.0-x86_64-1.txz [44K] [not installed]
Total size: 44 KB
Press [r] to remove packages, [q] to quit, or enter to start downloading.
Updates are available.
Program update: not required
Database update: available
Please run: usm -u all and/or usm -u usm
This message can be disabled in /etc/usm/usm.conf
###############################
Downloading: tree-1.6.0-x86_64-1.txz --> DLOADER=wget --passive-ftp --trust-server-names --no-check-certificate --progress=dot -O 2nd Par = /tmp/usm /tree-1.6.0-x86_64-1.txz url=http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware//slackware64-14.1/slackware64/a/tree-1.6.0-x86_64-1.txz
DONE
Package tree-1.6.0-x86_64-1.txz installed.
root@darkstar:/# tree root
root
├── tmp64
│ ├── gettext-0.18.2.1-x86_64-2.txz
│ ├── gpm-1.20.7-x86_64-2.txz
│ └── usm-latest-0.0-noarch-1.txz
└── var64
2 directories, 3 files
And again it didn't work and the same thing happen. I even try it on 2 computer and I made a CD and thumb drive copy to be sure. Sorry I don't know what to tell you or how to fix it.Your File info
md5sum: 915a798e416ed0cddae8641c040d1299 abSlak_030216.iso
Download File info
md5sum: 915a798e416ed0cddae8641c040d1299 abSlak_030216.iso