Live USB problem

[murali]

HI,

I'm unable to boot into Salix from USB, On bootup it asks for a password, tried all combinations - blank, live, root but none of them worked. I have been booting from USB with other distros for a long time w/o any issues, so not sure why it doesn't work with Salix.

Can someone help or is it that this feature is not applicable with Salix.

Thanks,

[JRD]

On bootup it asks for a password

Is it graphical or not ? At which stage of the boot process ?
It's not normal at all. How did you put Salix Live on USB ?

[murali]

Right after the computer is rebooted and it gives the initial boot screen and when i press enter, it goes blank and when i press enter again that's when the password box comes. Checked md5 sum as well and it tallied with what's in the web page. Strangely it was the same behavior every time. I burnt using unetbootin

[JRD]

I burnt using unetbootin

Please read instructions in the Startup User Guide (at the very end of the PDF) here : http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/Salix_Live
Unetbootin should not be used with Salix Live.

About your password, it seems (if not related to unetbootin) to be a BIOS password because you're trying to boot on something else than usual. Try going into the BIOS and change that behavior.

[murali]

ok, i didn't RTFM . Following the user guide now, thanks.

The password is unrelated to either unetbootin or BIOS as i've been using the same USB for other distros and never had any issue so far, i experienced this first time with Salix. Maybe it could be due to the fact that i didn't create the usb as per the steps listed in guide and instead used unetbootin so some options could've caused it.

[murali]

Followed the instructions as given in the start up guide - basically extracted all files/folders from iso to USB. Went into boot dir and tried the first command and got this -

./bootinst.sh
WARNING: grub2 is available on this running system.
You should preferably run /install-on-USB script instead.

Press any key to continue, or Ctrl+C to abort.

Tried install on USB which gave me this

./install-on-USB /home/guest/Downloads/salixlive-13.0.iso /media/FE84-700C
[: 29: Illegal number:
./install-on-USB: 47: Bad substitution

What could be going wrong here..

[Shador]

Can you please run these commands on the same system the error occured on. Also put the system in the same state (e.g. USB plugged in) and then post the output:

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echo "$UID"
mount | grep "on /media/FE84-700C" | cut -d' ' -f1 | head -n 1

[murali]

Hi,

Here's the output -

echo "$UID"
1000

mount | grep "on /media/EEB5-A435" | cut -d' ' -f1 | head -n 1
/dev/sdc1

[Shador]

Ok, can you check if the script still fails.
If it still does so call it like this:

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bash -x ./install-on-USB /home/guest/Downloads/salixlive-13.0.iso /media/FE84-700C 2>&1 | tee install.log

Then upload the file install.log somewhere (e.g. pastie.org).