AntiX Live USB "Could not find file antiX/linuxfs"

[Member czezz]

I have created Antix LiveUSB (latest release – antiX-17.4.1_x64-full.iso).
I was able to boot AntiX Live USB just once on my old old PC (MSI 945P Neo3) and then after reboot I get an error during boot process: “Could not find file antiX/linuxfs”
I have mounted USB dongle under my regular PC and I can clearly see the file DOES exist.
Moreover, I have tried it on modern PC: DELL Optiplex 780 and it works there…
What is wrong then? Any suggestions?

ls -al antiX/
total 961512
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      4096 Jul  6 09:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root      4096 Jul  6 09:10 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root        10 Jul  6 09:10 esp-uuid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3765843 Mär 28 16:00 initrd.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root        44 Mär 28 16:05 initrd.gz.md5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 976269312 Mär 28 16:03 linuxfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root        42 Mär 28 16:05 linuxfs.md5
-rw------- 1 root root       512 Jul  6 09:10 random-seed
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4514592 Mär 28 16:00 vmlinuz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root        42 Mär 28 16:05 vmlinuz.md5

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Searching in the forums, two people had a very similar problem.

The first one found out that they had UEFI secure boot enabled. Once disabled, booting went well again. I tried searching your device and could only find a similar model that does not have UEFI boot, so this is probably not your case.

The second one had a faulty USB device. Though most other linux live USBs only load stuff and save no data when booting the live environment, the antiX live USB will save some preferences to the USB device (like selected timezone, language, mounting and persistence options, preferred desktop, and even your wifi configuration so that next boot you have to do less things). If your USB device is faulty or the writing in the USB device was interrupted, then writing on it may create corrupted data.
As you have tested the device on a different computer and it works, your USB device shouldn’t be at fault.

Let us try to force the boot to a specific device.
Boot your computer to the USB. Then, you should see a blue rectangle a bit above the bottom that says something like:
Boot Options: quiet splash=v disable=lx
If you see nothing (in a UEFI computer), hit the “e” key on your keyboard and search for the line that contains the boot parameters similar to what I have described above. If I remember correctly, it should be in the third line.

Now add an extra boot option that tries to force boot from usb
quiet splash=v disable=lx from=usb
if it cannot find your usb, use what I suppose is the path to your USB device.
quiet splash=v disable=lx bdev=sdb
If your USB device isn’t in /deb/sdb, you should change it to the correct one. If your USB device has different partitions, then you may need to select the correct partition where the linuxfs is stored (if in the first partition, sdb1, if in the second use sdb2 …)

If this doesn’t work, try using the live USB label. It should look like this:
quiet splash=v disable=lx blab=antiX-Live-usb
Check for correct upper casing.

Source for this answer is a skidoo reply in the forum.
More information about boot parameters can be found inside the antiX FAQ – Live Boot Parameters page.

It is a shame this happened to you. Hopefully you can boot again with the previous advice.
Let us know how it goes.

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antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

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Hi Xecure,
Thank you very much for reply. I will give it a try but earliest on 26th July.

Thats the link to the specification to my MB: link

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That earlier skidoo post likely isn’t useful here.
Instead, lookit the other posts in that topic which mention “load=all” and “failsafe” boot options.

I searched for “Searched devices” within the live init script
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BitJam/Live-initrd/master/init
and found an inline comment stating “FIXME: mention failsafe option or load=all”

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Hi, I did test for all 3 options. Sadly, it ended up with the same result.
I add pictures.

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I have created Antix LiveUSB (latest release – antiX-17.4.1_x64-full.iso).
I was able to boot AntiX Live USB just once on my old old PC (MSI 945P Neo3) and then after reboot I get an error during boot process: “Could not find file antiX/linuxfs”
I have mounted USB dongle under my regular PC and I can clearly see the file DOES exist.
Moreover, I have tried it on modern PC: DELL Optiplex 780 and it works there…
What is wrong then? Any suggestions?

after looking at your screenshots. NO usb device found by pen drive but bios sees it to boot up is a new one on me.
I’d try another pendrive and download new iso with terminal and wget -c command, and md5sum my iso before troubleshooting further.
I am not even sure MSI laptop is nt at fault yet either.
Strange stuff. I’ll be watching.

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Hi there I also had this problem happen to me but I found a solution (btw this solution might not be perfect but it allowed me to install antiX so follow it at your own risk).
What happened to me is that I used a tool to make a multiboot drive called “Yumi” (in windows) with the option “Try unlisted ISO (GRUB)”.
After inspecting the ISO file and the alterations made to my USB stick I found that the antiX folder was non existent so I just dragged and dropped the folder and it went fine.

PS: I know this answer is kind of late but I hope it helps someone in the future.

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