Go ahead and delete me as I am Tim CowChips's evil twin. I registered this user when running XFCE live to get help because in a panic I forgot my old user name.

If you comment out line #184 in /usr/bin/shutter, so it doesn't require imagebanana, it will start easier.

Shouldn't the thread be marked [SOLVED] then. Whenever I have an error message that I can't figure out, I copy and paste in a forum or other search engine and I read the topics marked [SOLVED] first, hoping to find the answer.

pcbsd64 wrote: ls (hd0)/

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//README-UsbInstall boot/ /packages salix-xfce-64.live salixlive/

l

I don't see syslinux.cfg or ldlinux.sys in the ls. Is that a problem?

ls
(memdisk) (hd0) (hd0,msdos1) (hd1) (hd1,msdos3) (hd1,msdos2) (hd1,msdos1) (fd0)
ls (hd0)
bad filename
ls (hd0)/
//README-UsbInstall boot/ /packages salix-xfce-64.live salixlive/
ls (hd0)/boot/grub/i386-pc
the contents of that folder. too many to list

ls (hd0)/boot/grub/grub.cfg
not a ...

Just for a sanity check I downloaded and created a live usb from the slackellive-kde-4.8.2-64.iso.
It booted.

I checked md5 for salixlive-xfce-13.37-64.iso
chris[salixlive]$ md5sum salixlive-xfce-13.37-64.iso
7d9c11a65aa35a1713826d4521e6db83 salixlive-xfce-13.37-64.iso
which agrees with the ...

Boot sector info: Syslinux looks at sector 1441464 of /dev/sdb1 for its
second stage. The integrity check of Syslinux failed.
According to the info in the boot sector, sdb1 starts
at sector 0. But according to the info from fdisk,
sdb1 starts at sector 2048.
Could there possibly be some ...

I use gparted to create a partition table and then format a fat32 partition on the usb stick. I notice that there is always a 1Mb space preceding the fat partition when using gparted. Maybe this causes the 2048 offset seen by syslinux. Can I edit syslinux.cfg to work around this?

My wife has ...

pcbsd64 wrote:When I try to boot from the usb stick it continues passed the grub error (like you said it would) and stops at a grub> prompt.
That's it.

After the grub error it says "Searching for a device to boot from" " checking memdisk" "checking hd0"

I did erase the partition table, then followed the extract to usb and install-on-USB.sh instructions.

contents of the *.live file