live-fat-stick and leap

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Hello everyone

I used live-fat-stick to have some live distro to boot on a USB drive.
With leap version of openSUSE (and Tumbleweed) do not work anymore.
I think the problem may be that Live-fat-stick copy initrd file from
the iso as cpio instead of gzip files of the others distro (also old
openSUSE)
At booting, video is full of similar ascii code in little squares of
different
colors with someone blinking.
I tried nomodeset in option without success.

This is syslinux.config for leap 15.0

LABEL openSUSE-Leap-15.0
kernel linux-openSUSE-Leap-15.0
append initrd=initrd-openSUSE-Leap-15.0
isofrom=/dev/disk/by-uuid/AF35-AE10:/openSUSE-Leap-15.0-KDE-Live-x86_64-
Snapshot20.122-Media.iso isofrom_device=/dev/disk/by-uuid/AF35-AE10
isofrom_system=/openSUSE-Leap-15.0-KDE-Live-x86_64-Snapshot20.122-Media.iso
loader=syslinux splash=verbose quiet showopts

live-fat-stick is run on leap 42.3 system with plasma.

Laptop Asus K53T with AMD6 Ram 6 GB graphics Radeon HD6720G2.

Excuse me for my poor english.
I use openSUSE from 9.0 version but are not a expert of linux.

Thank for help.

2

AFAIK the live-fat-stick packages is outdated and unmainained. It may very well mean it cannot use latest linux distro images.

3

On the openSUSE Leap 15.0 Download URL, there’s a tab named “Live”: <https://software.opensuse.org/distributions/leap>

  • Either GNOME or KDE – both about 950 MB …
  • There’s also a 650 MB Rescue CD (or USB-Stick) …
4

Forgot to mention that, on the “Installation” tab of the Download page, there’s a pointer to “How to create a bootable USB stick on Linux.” …

5

Use current version from https://github.com/cyberorg/live-fat-stick, it knows how to handle Leap 15 properly. Or edit syslinux.cfg manually according to https://github.com/cyberorg/live-fat-stick/blob/e794e1b14388519d3ba2199e67837bcb70e1ee9e/live-fat-stick#L280

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Still not quite. At least three issues.

  1. Kernel is too large to be loaded using syslinux “kernel”, it requires “linux”.
  2. Script never sets value for $isolabel so booted system does not find its root.
  3. In my case syslinux failed to load graphical menu. May be it is just as good :slight_smile:

I fixed the first two manually, after that I was able to boot from ISO on USB stick. Here is final syslinux.cfg:

implicit 1prompt   1
timeout  100
display isolinux.msg
ui gfxboot bootlogo isolinux.msg
default openSUSE-Leap-15.0




LABEL openSUSE-Leap-15.0
        linux linux-openSUSE-Leap-15.0
        append initrd=initrd-openSUSE-Leap-15.0 iso-scan/filename=/openSUSE-Leap-15.0-GNOME-Live-x86_64-Snapshot20.130-Media.iso root=live:CDLABEL=openSUSE_Leap_15.0_GNOME_Live loader=syslinux splash=silent   quiet showopts 




label harddisk
  	localboot 0x80

Unfortunately I suspect your problem so far is in syslinux itself, may be deleting gfxboot.c32 could be workaround (at least to test whether it boots). Of course you still need to adjust menu for proper arguments.

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Il 29/01/19 16:16, dcurtisfra ha scritto:
>
> Forgot to mention that, on the “Installation” tab of the Download
> page, there’s a pointer to “-How to create a bootable USB stick on
> Linux-.” …
>
>
Thank you,
Here I found the system to create a boot USB with different ISO with
live-fat-stick but do not work with leap
Regards

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Il 29/01/19 21:26, arvidjaar ha scritto:
>
> arvidjaar;2892740 Wrote:
>> Use current version from https://github.com/cyberorg/live-fat-stick, it
>> knows how to handle Leap 15 properly.
> Still not quite. At least three issues.
>
>
> - Kernel is too large to be loaded using syslinux “kernel”, it
> requires “linux”.
> - Script never sets value for $isolabel so booted system does not find
> its root.
> - In my case syslinux failed to load graphical menu. May be it is just
> as good :slight_smile:
>
>
> I fixed the first two manually, after that I was able to boot from ISO
> on USB stick. Here is final syslinux.cfg:
> Code:
> --------------------
> implicit 1prompt 1
> timeout 100
> display isolinux.msg
> ui gfxboot bootlogo isolinux.msg
> default openSUSE-Leap-15.0
>
>
>
>
> LABEL openSUSE-Leap-15.0
> linux linux-openSUSE-Leap-15.0
> append initrd=initrd-openSUSE-Leap-15.0 iso-scan/filename=/openSUSE-Leap-15.0-GNOME-Live-x86_64-Snapshot20.130-Media.iso root=live:CDLABEL=openSUSE_Leap_15.0_GNOME_Live loader=syslinux splash=silent quiet showopts
>
>
>
>
> label harddisk
> localboot 0x80
> --------------------
>
> Unfortunately I suspect your problem so far is in syslinux itself, may
> be deleting gfxboot.c32 could be workaround (at least to test whether it
> boots). Of course you still need to adjust menu for proper arguments.
>
>
thank you,
I will try this fix
Regards