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Budgie
An office machine died so I found one in the cupboard. Sadly it turned out to be a 32bit XP machine. I burnt a CD (no USB boot available) for net installation because the full iso is too big for a CD and thought I would be adventurous. All went well until I selected the option to run antix and I received an error.
Filtered devices /dev/sr0
Retry for 15 seconds…………
Fatal Error
Could not find file antix/linuxfs
Searched devices: /dev/sr0
Searched types: usb,cd
All block devices: /dev/sr0 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb /dev/sda1 /dev/sdaPlease contact BitJam at https://www.antixforum.com
This seemed like a good place to start without knowing BitJam.
Please forward if appropriate.
Meanwhile I am burning a base version. Will post if it doesn’t work.
BudgeThe base version didn’t run either. I think I have a starnge hardware problem, probably because the machine has an adaptec SCSI card and scsi CD. It all works on the existing system but is clearly quite ancient. There are slightly newer bios betas available but not, I think the bootable version with installer.
Anybody any ideas please?
Many thanks,
Budge.Anonymous
oh boy. not sure where to start if kernel isn’t booting from scsi,
but can you check bios settings to make sure cd drive is the boot drive
for the antiX disk.I burnt a CD
First suggestion: try again and append “from=all” to the bootline.
Second: On a working machine, load the CD and browse its content.
Is “/dev/sr0/antix/linuxfs” truly absent?
If it not absent, could be a “bad burn” right? So, maybe retry and use a slower speed
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Take a step further back. Possibly the downloaded ISO was corrupt. Recheck the md5sum (or sha256 sum) of the ISO file to verify its integrity.Another idea:
After the “fatal error”, if a command prompt is displayed (vs unresponsive blinking underscore cursor) use the “blkid” command to check what is the (apparently something other than sr0) /dev path for the device.Hi all and thanks for the thoughts and suggestions. The machine can start, rum windoze and detect and load the CD but then does not boot. Tried the easy options but still nothing. I tried gparted and this couldn’t load either. I think there is an incorrect setting in the SCSI configuration but the whole system is to old to spend any more time on. Thanks all but will close this as the one that got away!
Budge.
Xecure
I have seen this CD issue before. The only workaround that was proposed was to use a v1.1 USB port (even if it doesn’t boot), with antiX base/net/core on it and boot from the CD, use the boot option from=usb, and that would finally boot the antiX system.
The best solution is to figure out the UUID of the CD (if that is possible), and use the bootcode buuid or as skidoo mentioned, figure out the correct device ID and use bdev.
More info on these boot parameters:
http://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/docs-antiX-19/FAQ/boot-params.html#_the_boot_device
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https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters#Boot_Location- This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Xecure.
antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.The problem was the cd and that the adaptek scsi card has not been correctly set up. The CD is a scsi device, rare even back in the day. I popped in another drive on the normal bus and it does boot and then can be found by antix, so all good now. Will see if the machine is work using.
Many thanks for the help.
Budge.OK so now I have something to get hold of. I installed the base system from CD and all went well until the last when grub was being installed. I had it set for MBR and this failed totally and when I then used live CD to try and repair grub there was nothing to repair.
I then installed grub in the root partition and this time all went well and watching the log files scroll past it seemed that all was well until I tried to boot from the installed system which stalled at the time when grub should run. I think there must be a flag to be set somewhere because my hardware otherwise seems to want to go to an MBR which is not there. Will keep trying but if this info has more clues for those who know about these things I would like to keep on a bit longer. Will boot to live again and have a look at what is now installed.Xecure
From the live CD on the Boot menu, change to Grub bootloader/menu, Boot Rescue Menus, Grub menus and see if it can find the grub of the installed system. If it does, select it and boot into the installed system. Once inside, try Boot Repair program from the Control Centre (first grub reinstall and then grub repair, both in MBR).
Then reboot and see if it boots normally.antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.I have tried this earlier with no success. I have left grub in the root partition and set the boot flag using cfdisk and flushed some data from the BIOS and now after a long wait I have been able to boot and the login prompt is my own so all working so far. Will now give it a spin.
I had thought to re format the whole lot but gparted couldn’t start. At least now I don’t have to bother.
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