UNSOLVED - Remaster on usb stick gives "boot error"

[Maurice]

Maurice,
                It seems I was misunderstanding the situation .......

On the problematic PC, you can start to boot with the USB stick and get to a grub page with boot options.

Is this correct?

When you select to boot the Mini OS from that boot page what happens?

On one machine I  get the message This is not a bootable disk.... and words to the effect - Press any key to start again.

On the second machine I get the grub menu from the usb with the four grub menu entries I had specified. I press the top one Kde1 which is the name I gave it. Then it starts booting - very slowly - it takes about 15 minutes for the indicator to get the right hand side. I leave it for another 10 minutes but it remains stalled.

[wedgetail]

Maurice

This is not a bootable disk....= DG33FB  ??

On the second machine = DELL 820  ??

Addition:
post 103   I understood this was on the DG33FB not on DELL 820
post 108   I understood you tried to boot on another USB  port not the DELL 820,  in light of post 103 the USB Port is unlikely to make any difference.

[Just17]

Maurice,
                It seems I was misunderstanding the situation .......

On the problematic PC, you can start to boot with the USB stick and get to a grub page with boot options.

Is this correct?

When you select to boot the Mini OS from that boot page what happens?

On one machine I  get the message This is not a bootable disk.... and words to the effect - Press any key to start again.

On the second machine I get the grub menu from the usb with the four grub menu entries I had specified. I press the top one Kde1 which is the name I gave it. Then it starts booting - very slowly - it takes about 15 minutes for the indicator to get the right hand side. I leave it for another 10 minutes but it remains stalled.

What ISO are you using?

Is it the kde-minime 2012.02?

[Maurice]

Maurice

This is not a bootable disk....= DG33FB  ??

On the second machine = DELL 820  ??

Addition:
post 103   I understood this was on the DG33FB not on DELL 820
post 108   I understood you tried to boot on another USB  port not the DELL 820,  in light of post 103 the USB Port is unlikely to make any difference.

Oh dear, now I'm getting confused. Anyway here's the latest -

I have just changed the menu.lst to that suggested by old-polack and this is the result --

DG33FB -- This not a bootable disk. (at least now it is recognising the usb)

DELL 820 -- The boot menu from the usb appears with its four items. I press KDE1  (now before when I did this it tried to start very slowly and then hung) but this time there is a verbose response after which it stalls with the message - Error. Unable to mount loop file system

Perhaps this will tell you something?

[Just17]

Maurice

This is not a bootable disk....= DG33FB  ??

On the second machine = DELL 820  ??

Addition:
post 103   I understood this was on the DG33FB not on DELL 820
post 108   I understood you tried to boot on another USB  port not the DELL 820,  in light of post 103 the USB Port is unlikely to make any difference.

Oh dear, now I'm getting confused. Anyway here's the latest -

I have just changed the menu.lst to that suggested by old-polack and this is the result --

DG33FB -- This not a bootable disk. (at least now it is recognising the usb)

DELL 820 -- The boot menu from the usb appears with its four items. I press KDE1  (now before when I did this it tried to start very slowly and then hung) but this time there is a verbose response after which it stalls with the message - Error. Unable to mount loop file system

Perhaps this will tell you something?

Put back the previous menu.lst entry, omitting the two boot options
quiet splash=silent

and try booting on the Dell again.

The ISO you are using is important .......  can you please clarify which one it is.

[Maurice]

What ISO are you using?

Is it the kde-minime 2012.02?

No it is the PcLinuxos2012kde

[Maurice]

Put back the previous menu.lst entry, omitting the two boot options
quiet splash=silent

and try booting on the Dell again.

The ISO you are using is important .......  can you please clarify which one it is.

Oh-huh - too late - I didn't make a copy of the original.

[Just17]

What ISO are you using?

Is it the kde-minime 2012.02?

No it is the PcLinuxos2012kde

OK, thanks.  

pclinuxos-kde-2012.02.iso   is the ISO so.

[Just17]

Put back the previous menu.lst entry, omitting the two boot options
quiet splash=silent

and try booting on the Dell again.

The ISO you are using is important .......  can you please clarify which one it is.

Oh-huh - too late - I didn't make a copy of the original.

Oh yes you did 

Here is he /boot/grub/menu.lst from the usb - it might help.....?

timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0


title   KDE
kernel (hd0,1)/KDE1/vmlinuz livecd=/KDE1 fromusb root=UUID=cf668e00-3a3b-43ab-b7b0-1c3388dacf74 acpi=on vga=791 quiet splash=silent vmalloc=256M
initrd (hd0,1)/KDE1/initrd.gz
 
title  KDE with Persistence
kernel (hd0,1)/KDE1/vmlinuz livecd=/KDE1 fromusb root=UUID=cf668e00-3a3b-43ab-b7b0-1c3388dacf74 changes_dev=UUID=cf668e00-3a3b-43ab-b7b0-1c3388dacf74 acpi=on fstab=rw,noauto vga=791 quiet splash=silent vmalloc=256M
initrd (hd0,1)/KDE1/initrd.gz
 
title   KDE with Copy to RAM
kernel (hd0,1)/KDE1/vmlinuz livecd=/KDE1 fromusb copy2ram root=UUID=cf668e00-3a3b-43ab-b7b0-1c3388dacf74 acpi=on vga=791 quiet splash=silent vmalloc=256M
initrd (hd0,1)/KDE1/initrd.gz

Omit the options in red.

That will allow you to see what is happening as it boots.

[wedgetail]

Maurice

The iso you have installed on the USB Key at the moment is that the one that at some time worked on the DELL820 or have you used liveUSB since then?

The quoted menu.lst by Just18 I don't think line up any longer, you have better show us the menu list in full you are working on.   

[Maurice]

Maurice

The iso you have installed on the USB Key at the moment is that the one that at some time worked on the DELL820 or have you used liveUSB since then?

The quoted menu.lst by Just18 I don't think line up any longer, you have better show us the menu list in full you are working on.   

No the iso that worked on the Dell was a Minime.iso just as a tryout. Now I have the fulll PcLinuxoskde version on the usb

Present menu.lst

timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0

title KDE  ##
root (hd0,1)
kernel /KDE1/vmlinuz livecd=KDE1 initrd=initrd.gz fromusb root=/dev/rd/3 acpi=on vga=791 splash=verbose fstab=rw,auto,noatime
initrd /KDE1/initrd.gz
 
title  KDE with Persistence
kernel (hd0,1)/KDE1/vmlinuz livecd=/KDE1 fromusb root=UUID=a2c87e7b-16a3-41c8-8b4c-7f626b3abfb5 changes_dev=UUID=a2c87e7b-16a3-41c8-8b4c-7f626b3abfb5 acpi=on fstab=rw,noauto vga=791 quiet splash=silent vmalloc=256M
initrd (hd0,1)/KDE1/initrd.gz
 
title   KDE with Copy to RAM
kernel (hd0,1)/KDE1/vmlinuz livecd=/KDE1 fromusb copy2ram root=UUID=a2c87e7b-16a3-41c8-8b4c-7f626b3abfb5 acpi=on vga=791 quiet splash=silent vmalloc=256M
initrd (hd0,1)/KDE1/initrd.gz
 
title   Memory Test
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/memtest-4.20

[wedgetail]

Maurice

2 - nil in your favour, I was on the watchout but you caught me, when Melodie chased the UID I got uncomfortable and started thinking, he has sneaked in another remaster without me catching it. (In my opinion you need to go back to minime.iso again and stick with that until the DG33FB is solved, having the DEL820 as test)

Over to Just18  I need time out  

[Just17]

The quoted menu.lst by Just18 I don't think line up any longer, you have better show us the menu list in full you are working on.

Yes you are correct .......  the partition has been recreated and formatted since it seems .

Maurice
               Add the following to your menu.lst and use it to boot the stick

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title   KDE
kernel (hd0,1)/KDE1/vmlinuz livecd=/KDE1 fromusb root=UUID=a2c87e7b-16a3-41c8-8b4c-7f626b3abfb5  acpi=on vga=791  vmalloc=256M
initrd (hd0,1)/KDE1/initrd.gz
I have changed the UUID for the partition to agree with your last menu.lst detail.

[Maurice]

Maurice

2 - nil in your favour, I was on the watchout but you caught me, when Melodie chased the UID I got uncomfortable and started thinking, he has sneaked in another remaster without me catching it. (In my opinion you need to go back to minime.iso again and stick with that until the DG33FB is solved, having the DEL820 as test)

Over to Just18  I need time out  

But the thing is - I don't want a minime and I want it on the DG33B not on the Dell

[Maurice]

Maurice
               Add the following to your menu.lst and use it to boot the stick

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title   KDE
kernel (hd0,1)/KDE1/vmlinuz livecd=/KDE1 fromusb root=UUID=a2c87e7b-16a3-41c8-8b4c-7f626b3abfb5  acpi=on vga=791  vmalloc=256M
initrd (hd0,1)/KDE1/initrd.gz
I have changed the UUID for the partition to agree with your last menu.lst detail.

Did that but still got the Not a bootable disk error