Linux issues

DougSM69 · 10-29-2015, 02:45 AM

Hi, I'm currently dual booting Win7 Ultimate/Linux Mint Debian. The Mint Live DVD is the only one that will boot on my Toshiba Satellite Pro A300. I really want to change Mint for Robolinux, but the dvd wont boot. I've tried both 32 and 64 bit and it's the same. I've tried with Zorin 9 Ultimate 32 bit and the install stops with the error Unable to build filesystem Squashfs, I used to have Zorin 9 Ultimate (From same DVD) as a standalone os and it was ok then, so I'm at a loss. Can anyone help me out here? Thanks. D

Tonus · 10-29-2015, 05:20 AM

You could make your bootloader boot an iso file of your install disk. Make sure the downloaded file is ok by checking md5sum and that it is located on a Linux filesystem.

- Edit

Code:

/etc/grub.d/40_custom

- add at the end

Code:

menuentry "Slackware 14.1 ISO" {
        insmod loopback
        insmod iso9660
        set isofile="/slackware64-14.1-install-dvd.iso"
        loopback loop (hd0,10)$isofile
        linux (loop)/kernels/huge.s/bzImage load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw printk.time=0 SLACK_KERNEL=huge.s
        initrd (loop)/isolinux/initrd.img
        }

- Note that my iso file is in no directory on (hd0,10) which is /dev/sda10

- Save changes with, as root

Code:

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Note that it could be update-grub for you.

ardvark71 · 10-29-2015, 05:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DougSM69

Can anyone help me out here?

Hi...

Welcome to the forum

Do you get any other SquashFS errors? If so, please post a readout.

Regards...