Samsung NC 10 goes to command line while booting live CD (Solved)

[pags]

I think you might be right because the live CD booted just fine on my Dell notebook.  Can you please explain how to make a bootable thumb drive.  Can a thumb drive be bootable and have other files on it in addition to the OS being booted?

I had followed these instructions:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,62202.0.html

And I'm still using this approach with 2010.1.

I have:

• e17_2010
• gnome2010
• kde1020 (.1)
• lxde2010
• phoenix2010
• ZENmini201

All booting from a 4GB stick (couldn't squeeze MiniMe on there  :'().

[opie]

Under the System folder in the Applications menu PCLOS 2009 has a program called "Make LiveUSB"  The only thing the program tells me I need on my thumb drive is a valid FAT formatted partition with at least 700 mb.  By the way, I did not perform that task which is probably why the attempt at creating a bootable thumb drive failed.

Once I create a valid formatted FAT partition  Will the "Make LiveUSB" perform all of the other tasks automatically?

[Ɗα√ϵς§]

It ought to. Or you could just format the whole thing, as long as it's FAT it's OK.

[opie]

I followed the instructions given by JohnBoy via pags.  I formatted the thumb drive.  I created a 1.2 gig ext 3 partition.  I then unmounted and remounted the thumb drive.  There is an odd file with a lock icon that says lost+found on the thumb drive.  I could not copy the isolinux directory or the livecdsqfs files from the liveCD to the thumb drive per JohnBoys instructions.  

I decided to try installing the liveCD on the thumb drive using "Make LiveUSB" after formatting the thumb drive.  I began running the "Make LiveUSB" program in PCLOS.  A popup asked me to set a size for the loopfs file between 50 mb and around 1,900 mb.  I did not know what that meant so I set the value at 700mb as that is is the size of the livecd.  Everything seemed to be going fine until a popup stated: "ERROR:Problem copying files. Exiting.: cp: cannot stat `/mnt/loop/livecd.sqfs': No such file or directory".

Any idea what the problem is?

[pags]

I decided to try installing the liveCD on the thumb drive using "Make LiveUSB" after formatting the thumb drive.  I began running the "Make LiveUSB" program in PCLOS.  A popup asked me to set a size for the loopfs file between 50 mb and around 1,900 mb.  I did not know what that meant so I set the value at 700mb as that is is the size of the livecd.  Everything seemed to be going fine until a popup stated: "ERROR:Problem copying files. Exiting.: cp: cannot stat `/mnt/loop/livecd.sqfs': No such file or directory".

Any idea what the problem is?

Not familiar with the "Make LiveUSB" fucntion, so I can't comment of where this problem may be...

I followed the instructions given by JohnBoy via pags.  I formatted the thumb drive.  I created a 1.2 gig ext 3 partition.  I then unmounted and remounted the thumb drive.  There is an odd file with a lock icon that says lost+found on the thumb drive.  I could not copy the isolinux directory or the livecdsqfs files from the liveCD to the thumb drive per JohnBoys instructions. 

The lost+found folder is normal on an ext2/3/4 filesystem, and the lock on it indicates that access to it is restricted (you normally have to be root to go into it).
Errors copying files onto the USB filesystem are most likely permission issues.  Being ext2/3/4, it will understand Linux permissions, and they need to be taken into account (or, conversely, you need to copy the files as root).
This assumes, of course that the source files are accessible and valid...

[opie]

Thank you.  I am a novice and did not consider that I should have been in root. 

I followed the directions and everything is running according to plan.  I am now on step 4 of the directions.  I have opened the /boot/grub/menu.lst file for editing.  I do not understand what it means to "delete the existing boot stanzas, leaving the headings etc intact."  Below is what is found in the  /boot/grub/menu.lst file.   I don't want to delete the wrong code and screw the whole thing up.  What do I delete and what do I keep?  How is the code supposed to look when I get done?  There is a listed code in the instructions.  Am I supposed to use that somewhere?

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

title linux
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=fbf8701f-5c45-40cc-9899-51e65d13db70  noapic acpi=off resume=UUID=7cdbb2eb-8106-4ed8-8971-faada68bb20e vga=788
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=fbf8701f-5c45-40cc-9899-51e65d13db70  noapic acpi=off resume=UUID=7cdbb2eb-8106-4ed8-8971-faada68bb20e
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=fbf8701f-5c45-40cc-9899-51e65d13db70  noapic failsafe acpi=off
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

[Ɗα√ϵς§]

This thread has become about getting the Live USB prepared and you would have found more answers there. You don't need to edit Grub on the Live USB. Something odd here.

1 - Make a live USB stick

2 - Set NC10's boot preferences in BIOS for USB stick before internal drive

3 - Put USB stick in NC10 and switch on

[OMSkates]

This thread has become about getting the Live USB prepared and you would have found more answers there. You don't need to edit Grub on the Live USB. Something odd here.

1 - Make a live USB stick

2 - Set NC10's boot preferences in BIOS for USB stick before internal drive

3 - Put USB stick in NC10 and switch on

I agree, Once you have a successful install to your NC10 you may reformat your USB for other uses.  There should be no need to edit your menu.lst file when creating live USB boot.  I have had success partitioning the first 1gb of space on a USB as FAT32 & flagged to boot and then partition the the remainder as ext3 "no boot flag" for saving files on.  The PC will see the first partition's boot flag and initiate.

[pags]

This thread has become about getting the Live USB prepared and you would have found more answers there. You don't need to edit Grub on the Live USB. Something odd here.

1 - Make a live USB stick

2 - Set NC10's boot preferences in BIOS for USB stick before internal drive

3 - Put USB stick in NC10 and switch on

There is more than one way to make a bootable, Live USB setup (that is, after all, one of the allures of Linux  ).

However, if you feel the OP has gone off on a tangent, then he should move these specifics questions to the appropriate thread (which I linked to previously), or start another, if required...the thread I linked to had activity as recently as May 13^th, 2010, so it still appears to be marginally active...
A question, though.  If this ends up being the solution he's looking for, what happens to this thread?  should it be abandoned?  Renamed?  It is still possible this may help someone in addition to opie.
For now, for opie's perusal, I will post what my menu.lst on my USB stick looks like, along with a directory listing to compare it too.

[Ɗα√ϵς§]

The problem as I see it, is that for some reason there was a bad connection from the external CD drive to the NC10 unit, so we wanted him to try a memory stick.

As there have been no other complaints that the 2010 versions of PCLinuxOS would not boot from an external CD, that's why I concluded that there was a hardware problem.

[opie]

Thank you for all of your help.  I was finally able to make a PCLOS LiveUSB using Unetbootin on my Windows computer.  I was a little disappointed that the Make LiveUSB software in PCLOS 2009 would not make a bootable thumb drive.  I tried using both PCLOS 2009 liveCD and the PCLOS 2010 liveCD.  I could not make a liveUSB using either one. I now do not think it had anything to do with the fact that the USB ports on my computer were only USB1.

[Ɗα√ϵς§]

Did it boot OK on your NC10?

[opie]

It boots perfectly.  I have had a problem getting sound to come over the speakers on the netbook.  Oddly, I can get sound using headphones, but not the speakers.  If I cannot fix the problem, I will ask the question as a new subject on the forum.  As that issue is a little far afield from my original question.  My plan is to install PCLOS on the netbook in the hopes that I can fix the sound issue.

[ff103]

Right click on the speaker icon and choose "master channel" and click PC Speaker.
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,74894.0.html