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perdidostone · **Joined:** 21. Oct 2009, 10:38 **Posts:** 3

Download today your Live cd, unable to boot,I had grub telling me need a kernel to boot, first thinking in something wrong, finally rebuild whit Isomaster using isolinux.bin. Here I am.Using your Live Cd.
Nice work, check this problem. Maybe was only mine.
There is password for root?

Akuna · **Joined:** 14. Jun 2009, 12:25 **Posts:** 424

Hi perdidostone

Didn't experienced your boot problem here. Of course, I used virtualbox, maybe I should try on a physical CD-ROM to double check.

root password is: live

thenktor

Akuna wrote:

Didn't experienced your boot problem here. Of course, I used virtualbox

Same here.

Akuna · **Joined:** 14. Jun 2009, 12:25 **Posts:** 424

Akuna wrote:

I used virtualbox, maybe I should try on a physical CD-ROM to double check.

perdidostone,

You found a bug!

When I tried booting from a physical CD-ROM, I had the same error message.

thenktor

Who still uses CD roms? Boot from USB instead! :twisted:

*scnr*

Shador

I've found a fix for the problem. The next live release should work on real hardware too. If you want to try the current one:

Install grub2 from here: http://gaia.homelinux.org/salix/package ... 86-1ab.txz
Download these 3 files and put them into one directory:
http://gaia.homelinux.org/salix/livegrub2/build.tar.bz2
http://gaia.homelinux.org/salix/livegrub2/build.sh
http://gaia.homelinux.org/salix/livegrub2/grub.cfg
Extract the build.tar.bz2 file to that directory
Run in that directory (of course you need the beta1 ISO too):
Code:
bash ./build.sh --out=salixlive-13.0-beta1.1.iso --overlay=/path/to/salixlive-13.0-beta1.iso --overlay=build/ --grubcfg=grub.cfg
After a few minutes the ISO should have been rebuilt as salixlive-13.0-beta1.1.iso in the working directory

The problem was a hardcoded device in the config files, which I did because of some trouble with grub2's bash-like scripting language. It didn't pop up in VirtualBox because there the cd drive is always hd96.
Anyway this fixes yours and Akuna's problem on real hardware.

Akuna · **Joined:** 14. Jun 2009, 12:25 **Posts:** 424

Built a new iso with this script & 'real' CD-ROM do work now.

But keyboard selection from grub boot menu does not seem to be taken into account.

Shador

Did you check /proc/cmdline wether grub2 passed the right parameters? Could you do so if not, please.

Akuna · **Joined:** 14. Jun 2009, 12:25 **Posts:** 424

Quote:

BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 rw quiet lang=fr_FR.utf8 keyboard=fr-latin9

But qwerty/us.map definitely got loaded instead.

Quickly checked rc.live & noticed the keyboard cheatcode has been removed from it...
Is it meant to be handled somewhere else now?

BTW the proper cheatcode syntax used to be keyb=
Has that changed too or might this be the reason why it doesn't work?

flux · **Joined:** 26. Oct 2009, 12:13 **Posts:** 20

You can add a custom script which changes the keyboard to your wishes, e. g. you type at the grub boot prompt the additional cheatcode

keyb=de

for a german keyboard, the script could do the following:

Code:

cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/

Then the script should change

Code:

into

Code:

in a state before hal will be started.

Just an idea ...

flux.

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