LiveUSB won't boot on CR-48

[Aradalf]

As explained in this thread, I have successfully accessed the BIOS on my CR-48. Now when booting it up, this is what happens:

So I proceed to boot up my PCLOS-LiveUSB, made with PCLinuxOS-LiveUSB. It has LXDE-mini, Phoenix-mini, and E17-light on it. The reason I put these light ones was because the CR-48 only has a 16GB SSD drive, and I wanted to keep it dual-boot. I booted up LXDE-mini, and upon switching to Verbose, found that it stopped booting at:

Code:

Searching for the loop image:                          /dev/sda1
                                                                 /dev/sda2
                                                                 /dev/sda3
                                                                 /dev/sda4
                                                                 /dev/sda5
                                                                 /dev/sda6
                                                                 /dev/sda7
                                                                 /dev/sda8
                                                                 /dev/sda9
                                                                 /dev/sda10
                                                                 /dev/sda11
                                                                 /dev/sda12
                                                                 [DONE}
ERROR: Unable to mount the livecd

           Dropping you to a limited shell.
  Loading /initrd/bin/ash
/initrd/bin/ash: can't access tty: job control turned off.
$_

This happened with all three flavors of PCLOS that I had on the LiveUSB. Anybody have any advice on what I could try? BTW, it has an Intel Atom N455 @ 1.66GHz Single-Core, 2 GB RAM in the first slot, and the second slot empty, Sandisk SSD P4 16GB, and an Intel GMA integrated graphics card. I found this all out from the BIOS.

Anyone have any ideas?

[T6]

my netbook has the same hardware but less ram

i installed pclinux by using livecd on a external optical dvd burner

[Aradalf]

my netbook has the same hardware but less ram

i installed pclinux by using livecd on a external optical dvd burner

I don't have an external optical drive, but if you think it would work, I'll go get one. My desktop's optical drive has been broken for a few years now too, but I never really needed another, since who uses cds these days? So you think that booting from an external optical drive will work?

[T6]

no, can't say that but i did it here and worked

if you could have one borrowed just for testing it would be better

also the boot codes to force detection and similar stuff, don't know where is that post

[Aradalf]

no, can't say that but i did it here and worked

if you could have one borrowed just for testing it would be better

also the boot codes to force detection and similar stuff, don't know where is that post

Well, I'll try with an external optical drive and report back.

[Was_Just19]

As explained in this thread, I have successfully accessed the BIOS on my CR-48. Now when booting it up, this is what happens:

So I proceed to boot up my PCLOS-LiveUSB, made with PCLinuxOS-LiveUSB. It has LXDE-mini, Phoenix-mini, and E17-light on it. The reason I put these light ones was because the CR-48 only has a 16GB SSD drive, and I wanted to keep it dual-boot. I booted up LXDE-mini, and upon switching to Verbose, found that it stopped booting at:

Code:

Searching for the loop image:                          /dev/sda1
                                                                 /dev/sda2
                                                                 /dev/sda3
                                                                 /dev/sda4
                                                                 /dev/sda5
                                                                 /dev/sda6
                                                                 /dev/sda7
                                                                 /dev/sda8
                                                                 /dev/sda9
                                                                 /dev/sda10
                                                                 /dev/sda11
                                                                 /dev/sda12
                                                                 [DONE}
ERROR: Unable to mount the livecd

           Dropping you to a limited shell.
  Loading /initrd/bin/ash
/initrd/bin/ash: can't access tty: job control turned off.
$_

This happened with all three flavors of PCLOS that I had on the LiveUSB. Anybody have any advice on what I could try? BTW, it has an Intel Atom N455 @ 1.66GHz Single-Core, 2 GB RAM in the first slot, and the second slot empty, Sandisk SSD P4 16GB, and an Intel GMA integrated graphics card. I found this all out from the BIOS.

Anyone have any ideas?

I would suggest that you edit the heading to reflect that fact you are asking about a LiveUSB and not a LiveCD 

***

From your output, it appears that the system cannot find the named .sqfs file on your system.

To try to determine the cause a lot more info is needed. Please post back with the results of the following (including command used) ...

fdisk -l       [lower case L and run as root]

Highlight the partition you are trying to use in the output posted above.


The contents of the /boot/grub/menu.lst  file that is in control of the booting.

Also, do an MD5sum comparison of the .sqfs file on the USB device and the .sqfs from the downloaded ISO. Also of course confirm that the ISO itself produces the correct MD5sum when compared to the number provided with it.

Please take the time to confirm the above and post back about each so that we are sure of those items before drawing any conclusions.

regards.

[Was_Just19]

Some further thoughts after reading the linked-to thread ......

So I proceed to boot up my PCLOS-LiveUSB, made with PCLinuxOS-LiveUSB. It has LXDE-mini, Phoenix-mini, and E17-light on it. The reason I put these light ones was because the CR-48 only has a 16GB SSD drive, and I wanted to keep it dual-boot.

This makes it all very confusing ...... if you have installed the Live PCLOS on a USB thumb drive, then why the reference to the internal SSD drive, which is not connected with booting from a thumb drive?

Maybe a better explanation of what set up you have is needed to sort out this confusion.

regards.

[Aradalf]

Some further thoughts after reading the linked-to thread ......

So I proceed to boot up my PCLOS-LiveUSB, made with PCLinuxOS-LiveUSB. It has LXDE-mini, Phoenix-mini, and E17-light on it. The reason I put these light ones was because the CR-48 only has a 16GB SSD drive, and I wanted to keep it dual-boot.

This makes it all very confusing ...... if you have installed the Live PCLOS on a USB thumb drive, then why the reference to the internal SSD drive, which is not connected with booting from a thumb drive?

Maybe a better explanation of what set up you have is needed to sort out this confusion.

regards.

I just simply stated that because once I install them, I need the disk space on the ssd drive for files and other stuff. The 8 GB flash drive is set up with one FAT32 primary partition, for files that can be accessed on windows, and one ext4 partition for the LiveUSB files.

fdisk -l returns this(/dev/sdg is my flash drive):

Code:

[root@CHON PCLOS-LiveUSB]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
194 heads, 44 sectors/track, 73235 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x696e1c95

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            2048    10631167     5314560   27  Unknown
/dev/sda2   *    10631168   272766975   131067904    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3       272767880   625133959   176183040    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5       272767924   304231575    15731826   83  Linux
/dev/sda6       304231620   312622463     4195422   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7       312622508   375541319    31459406   83  Linux
/dev/sda8       375543808   625133567   124794880   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x44fdfe06

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *          63   976768064   488384001    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdg: 7998 MB, 7998537728 bytes
247 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1020 cylinders, total 15622144 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000709fa

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdg1            2048     7813119     3905536    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sdg2         7813120    15622143     3904512   83  Linux

These are the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst on /dev/sdg2:

Code:

timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0
 
title   LXDE-mini
kernel (hd0,1)/LXDE-mini_1/vmlinuz livecd=LXDE-mini_1 fromusb root=UUID=3ab0e69b-e78f-4ba1-831d-42982180af2c acpi=on vga=791 splash=silent
initrd (hd0,1)/LXDE-mini_1/initrd.gz
 
title  LXDE-mini with Persistence
kernel (hd0,1)/LXDE-mini_1/vmlinuz livecd=LXDE-mini_1 fromusb root=UUID=3ab0e69b-e78f-4ba1-831d-42982180af2c acpi=on fstab=rw,noauto vga=791 changes_dev=UUID=3ab0e69b-e78f-4ba1-831d-42982180af2c splash=silent
initrd (hd0,1)/LXDE-mini_1/initrd.gz

title   Phoenix-mini
kernel (hd0,1)/Phoenix-mini_1/vmlinuz livecd=Phoenix-mini_1 fromusb root=UUID=3ab0e69b-e78f-4ba1-831d-42982180af2c acpi=on vga=791 splash=silent
initrd (hd0,1)/Phoenix-mini_1/initrd.gz

title   E17-light
kernel (hd0,1)/E17-light_1/vmlinuz livecd=E17-light_1 fromusb root=UUID=3ab0e69b-e78f-4ba1-831d-42982180af2c acpi=on vga=791 splash=silent
initrd (hd0,1)/E17-light_1/initrd.gz

title   Minime
kernel (hd0,1)/Minime_1/vmlinuz livecd=Minime_1 fromusb root=UUID=3ab0e69b-e78f-4ba1-831d-42982180af2c acpi=on vga=791 splash=silent
initrd (hd0,1)/Minime_1/initrd.gz

[Was_Just19]

and one ext4 partition for the LiveUSB files.

Try ext3 or ext2

[AS]

kernel (hd0,1)/LXDE-mini_1/vmlinuz livecd=LXDE-mini_1

are the images (*.sqfs) placed on the root directory of the partition ? I don't think the boot process can scan inside directories searching for UUID...
just a thought, because of vmlinuz placed inside a directory.

AS

[Aradalf]

kernel (hd0,1)/LXDE-mini_1/vmlinuz livecd=LXDE-mini_1

are the images (*.sqfs) placed on the root directory of the partition ? I don't think the boot process can scan inside directories searching for UUID...
just a thought, because of vmlinuz placed inside a directory.

AS

Yes, all 4 images(*.sqfs) are placed in the root directory of the partition.

[knome]

What is shown in /boot/grub/device.map? If you're booting from sdg then I would expect the device.map entry to read (hd0) /dev/sdg

[Aradalf]

and one ext4 partition for the LiveUSB files.

Try ext3 or ext2

I formatted the partition. as ext3, and then used PCLOS-LiveUSB on it again, and all is well. Shouldn't the PCLinuxOS-LiveUSB prevent me from installing on ext4? It does this for FAT, so it should do this for ext4, too. PCLOS-E17-light boots up without a hitch.

[T6]

maybe i don't understand but ext4 is supported by linux to put file structure for the os, fat32 is form microsoft, not friendly with other os ands with file size limit at 4 gbs

[Aradalf]

maybe i don't understand but ext4 is supported by linux to put file structure for the os, fat32 is form microsoft, not friendly with other os ands with file size limit at 4 gbs

I'm talking about the PCLinuxOS-LiveUSB creator script. It works with ext2 and ext3, but not ext4. I was simply asking if a warning could be made that is shown when an ext4 partition is selected, similar to the warning that is shown if a fat32 partition is selected. I'm also surprised, since ext4 is what I have always used for my Linux partitions, yet it is not compatible with the PCLinuxOS-LiveUSB creator script.