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Submitted by Ra on Wed, 07/23/2014 - 22:20

Install via USB not working

Project:Trisquel mini
Version:6.0
Component:Miscellaneous
Category:bug report
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:closed
Description

Hi folks,
i've just tried to install trisquel mini on an acer travelmate via USB. I chose Floppy Disks in the booting menu. The cpu worked some time without showing the normal boot, but then i got the message "No boot filename found" or something like that. Then it is booting the current operating system.
The md5 checksum of the iso was fine, and the usb stick was also created normally.
Does anybody have an idea what went wrong?

Ra:
Wed, 07/23/2014 - 22:32

What the computer tells me on black screen begins with PXE-... and then: "No boot filename received".

Legimet:
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 00:04

Why did you choose floppy disk? Choose your USB drive.
Also, don't make a bug report unless it's actually a bug. Post in the forum if you need help.

Ra:
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 23:20

Yes, i saw the forum afterwards, had been looking at the menu on the right hand side only. And i had a "problem", that's why i wrote in here.
Another thing i noticed too late is how you actually boot from usb. I've read about that many times, but nobody ever explained that after introducing the usb stick you have one more option to choose in the boot menu - and that option is hidden in the option hard disk. I had thought the computer treats the usb stick as a floppy device.
Now the problem is different. Obviously the computer now tries to boot from usb, but immediately i get three lines on the black screen:

SysLinux 3.63 Debian 2012-04-16 EBIOS Copyright (and so on)
Unknown keyword in configuration file
boot:

And then the cursor blinks in the fourth line. I got that twice or three times. Once i waited for 2 hours, but nothing else happened.
Can that be some kind of bug?
This is a relatively old acer travelmate, pentium m, 512 MB RAM.

Legimet:
Fri, 07/25/2014 - 18:05

This shouldn't happen. Is there a file on your USB stick called syslinux.cfg? Can you post the contents?

Ra:
Sun, 07/27/2014 - 13:49

Yes. The content is:
# D-I config version 2.0
include menu.cfg
default vesamenu.c32
prompt 0
timeout 300
ui gfxboot bootlogo

lembas:
Tue, 07/29/2014 - 10:31

>I've read about that many times, but nobody ever explained that after introducing the usb stick you have one more option to choose in the boot menu - and that option is hidden in the option hard disk. I had thought the computer treats the usb stick as a floppy device.

This varies wildly and depends on which BIOS you have installed. Some are intuitive, some not so much.

Ra:
Thu, 08/07/2014 - 14:39
Title:Tried to install via USB, but "No boot filename found"» Install via USB not working
Priority:minor» normal

I tried the USB stick at another computer. The result is the same. Is that a bug? With trisquel mini 7 it didn't work either.

Ra:
Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:04

With forum help i've found the solution. In the file syslinux.cfg the last line is:
ui gfxboot bootlogo

The ui must be removed. Then it works.

SirGrant:
Sun, 10/12/2014 - 13:25
Status:active» closed