Sabayon 9 on flash drive

[tekwyzrd]

Can someone please provide or point me to the information about installing a live dvd to a flash drive? The howto section is pretty old and still contains information pertaining to grub, which doesn't help with newer versions that use grub2.

[sabayonino]

You should be able to dd if=<sabayon.iso> of=/dev/sd<x>, where <x> is the letter for your USB device.

find your Usb-Device :

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# fdisk -l

"dd" is dangerous . You're warned ! All data will be erase.

make sure right USB device.

[tekwyzrd]

OK, I got the flash drive set up but ran into an odd problem. The only time I see the grub menu on the flash drive is when I set the usb mass storage option in the bios to force hd mode. Auto and cdrom leave me at a blank screen with a blinking cursor. The flash drive was set to first device. When set to force hd the startup process looks for the cdrom, attempts to mount the dvd drive and partitions and stops.

This was my only remaining option for this computer. I installed updates a couple days ago and got lost xorg. It's an old xeon board with onboard ati rage xl video and I had the xorg ati driver running fine before the update. After updates and reboot startup dies with a black screen with blue bands at the top and bottom. No vt with alt+ctrl+f1 I had hoped to do a repair using the usb but it's not looking too good. Can't burn a dvd with the drive occupied by a live disk and I don't want to re-install from the most recent disc I have - a daily from january. Looks like it's time to scrounge up some newer parts and assemble another computer.

[tekwyzrd]

I decided to give one more try and downloaded the 7/25 daily 64 bit kde image. This time the startup process died at the same point as my updated install did, right about the point where I'd see the logo if I was running an nvidia card. Unfortunately at that point it's impossible to do anything but hit and hold the power button and shut it off. I'm back on the January live disk and can mount the root partition of the installed version and gather log files if that would help resolve this. Just let me know what's needed.

[tekwyzrd]

update: Using the usb live 7/25 daily I was able to get to the VT with alt+ctrl+f1 by specifing xdriver=radeon or xdriver=vesa. I tried both radeon.modeset=1 and nomodeset but xserver won't start. An attempt at starting manually results in a fail with error of no screens found. At least there's some progress.

[sabayonino]

was able to get to the VT with alt+ctrl+f1 by specifing xdriver=radeon or xdriver=vesa.

you get these parameters before loading the kernel (at boot edit kernel command line typing "e").

[tekwyzrd]

With the live usb I hit F5 then esc and added the parameters. I will try booting the installed version with the options I mentioned and nox and see where it gets me. If I can get to the vt I'll use the sabutil menu to submit logs and other related info and try to do the remove and installs mentioned in other related threads.

[tekwyzrd]

I'm back on the 20120125 64 bit kde disk. Booting the installed version using the nox option I ran sabutil menu and submitted files to pastebin (pastie 10105 - 10111), then checked for the presence of ati-drivers, re-installed the 3.4 kernel and xf86-video-ati drivers, confirmed opengl set to xorg-x11, and rebooted and added xdriver=radeon and radeon.modeset=1 parameters. No luck. Rebooted with nox again and ran deptest and libtest (no problems found), checked for updates and attempted upgrade (repo up to date with no upgrades). No luck with xserver starting, even manually.

[sabayonino]

I'm trying last KDE daily (20120725)

rc.log show invalid user

"sabayonuser" appears with wrong charset "?sabayonuser?" (a box instead "?")

and invalid group "root" and other.

I think X-server doesn't start 'cause permissions are wrong.

if youy try to change user :

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# su sabayonuser

You'll get a messsage :

Could not determine user name

or something like.

Could you try this ?




I've got ATI-HD4570 and Opengl and driver are set fine.

[tekwyzrd]

OK, I'll do so in a bit after I make a food run and feed grandma. I was thinking it might be a problem with the mach64 driver used by rage xl or related xserver bug.