Fatal Error on live usb boot

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Hey guys, longtime no see, been running antix on all my boxes, just lurking here at the new forum.
Decided to do create a live-usb via the Control Centre. I have tried several different usb thumb drives and though the process finishes with a
success drive created. They have all failed to boot exiting with:

Fatal Error 
Could not find file /antiX/linuxfs
searched devices /dev/sdb /dev/sr0
searched types usb.cd
All block devices /dev/sdb /dev/sda9, /dev/sda8 /dev/sda7 /dev/sda6 /dev/sda5 dev/sda4 /dev/sda3 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sr0 /dev/sda

Weird thing is if you plug in the usb drive it has the directory structure of
see attachment

System:    Host: antix17 Kernel: 4.15.5-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64
           Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 Distro: antiX-17_x64-full Heather Heyer 24 October 2017
Machine:   Device: desktop System: Apple product: iMac5 1 v: 1.0 serial: N/A
           Mobo: Apple model: Mac-F4228EC8 v: DVT serial: N/A
           BIOS: Apple v: IM51.88Z.0090.B09.0706270921 date: 06/27/07
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 T7400 (-MCP-) cache: 4096 KB
           clock speeds: max: 2167 MHz 1: 1720 MHz 2: 1759 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV530/M56-P [Mobility Radeon X1600]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2
           drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1680x1050@59.88hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV530 version: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio:     Card Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Def. Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.5-antix.1-amd64-smp
Network:   Card-1: Marvell 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: sky2
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 
           Card-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n driver: b43-pci-bridge
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 564.5GB (7.0% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: Hitachi_HDS72505 size: 500.1GB
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: Flash_Disk size: 64.4GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 55G used: 4.8G (10%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4
           ID-2: /home size: 44G used: 14G (33%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 20.00GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 904
Info:      Processes: 145 Uptime: 13:37 Memory: 854.7/2987.8MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56 

cheers,

ohh

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Hi there ohh!

Which version of antiX on the box and which version to install on the usb stick?

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17 on the box fully updated and 17.1 on the stick

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Hello anti
Don’t know if you can read the attachment, but when mounted the usb stick has a mount point of /media/antiX-Live-usb the script on the usb stick looks for all the places except sdb1 and sdb2 where these two reside.

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Is there a linuxfs file on the usb in antiX folder?
Computer cam boot usb, right and usb device is sdb?

Try load=all cheat at boot menu

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yes, to all and got the same result if you mount it on another system it shows up as sdb1 and sdb2

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ohh,

can you try the “failsafe” option?

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@ anti yes to all and hello anti!!!
@ dolphinoracle yes I tried all of the possible entries

ohh

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Here’s a screenshot of the usb drive mounted on my imac (see inxi -F above)
See how it recognizes sdb1 and sdb2 but not sdb

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Can you try another usb port?

Also, any luck with bdev=sdb1

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http://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/docs-antiX-17/FAQ/boot-params.html#_the_boot_device
? maybe adding a bootline parameter will help
bdev=sdb1
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blab=antiX-Live-usb

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Perhaps it doesn’t boot on the imac. Can you see if the stick boots on another computer?

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skidoo and anti,

I’ve tried booting on 3 different systems and same result.
I have used boot cheats,
bdev blab buuid from=all from=usb bdir=
basically every cheat i know of in every iteration I can concoct and still no joy. This is the third different try with the control centre gui, I think I will go to the cli version and see if that makes any difference

I’ll repost when I’ve done that.
got to run for now.
thank you for the help
cheers,

ohh

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Used another usb stick (really old) 2gb and it worked fine. Apparently the new sticks I was using were problematic. One was a 64gb Gorilla Drive,two sandisk cruzier glides, one 64gb the other 16gb, and a verbatim stick 8gb. I used the gui and cli apps on all these on my regular setup,(inxi above post 8109) and on two of my laptops, Even created usb sticks on both laptops one using mx17 and the other running antix17 both fully updated and they produced the same results. Even tried and 32iso instead of a 64 on both. No joy. Very perplexing. One thing I did notice when creating the last one that was successful, during the usb maker’s process the files created did not automount and at the end of the process the stick was unmounted.

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Hello ohh,
Have you tried the other usb ports..my hp has usb 2.0 ports on one side and usb 1.0 on
the other and booting usb on the 1.0 one fails everytime 4 me. Your newer sticks might
need more power that the old ports can’t deliver. You could try a powered hub if have
access to one.

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