Nemesis and Porteus on same partition

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Nemesis and Porteus on same partition

Post#1 by Shoshi » 14 Apr 2016, 05:12

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!

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Re: Nemesis and Porteus on same partition

Post#2 by francois » 14 Apr 2016, 12:01

See sgnfile= cheatcode:
sgnfile
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Re: Nemesis and Porteus on same partition

Post#3 by Shoshi » 14 Apr 2016, 12:48

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...

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Re: Nemesis and Porteus on same partition

Post#4 by francois » 14 Apr 2016, 14:05

I have many porteus installations side by side.

Would you prefer syslinux of grub2? Mine come grub2.
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Re: Nemesis and Porteus on same partition

Post#5 by tome » 14 Apr 2016, 14:22

@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
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Re: Nemesis and Porteus on same partition

Post#6 by Bogomips » 14 Apr 2016, 16:21

^ Might work better with from=/nemesis
Linux porteus 4.4.0-porteus #3 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 23 07:01:55 UTC 2016 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 140 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) MemTotal: 901760 kB MemFree: 66752 kB

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Re: Nemesis and Porteus on same partition

Post#7 by Shoshi » 14 Apr 2016, 17:06

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?

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Re: Nemesis and Porteus on same partition

Post#8 by francois » 17 Apr 2016, 17:37

Did you tried guest mode?

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