Problems booting up Slacko 5.7.2 CE on a usb stick

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Problems booting up Slacko 5.7.2 CE on a usb stick

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It's Acer Aspire 1, ZG5 1.5 gb ram
Slacko 5.7.2 CE
Both usb & sd card
Did it with Chrome OS Recovery.

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Re: Problems booting up Slacko 5.7.2 CE on a usb stick

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With USB, you have to go into BIOS and make it the 1st bootable drive seen and operated. The SD card is a nitemare, as its a proprietary driver to boot that (but its useable to store stuff in).

Its also possible you selected the wrong method of "installer"... its a USB flash drive. The wording on the CE edition can be confusing. Or maybe you need to D/L the Pup again, it may be funky.

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Re: Problems booting up Slacko 5.7.2 CE on a usb stick

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Try using one of these installers to do the install.
viewtopic.php?p=528#p528
Non of these are going to work in Chrome OS.
Need to use them in Windows or a normal main stream Linux OS.

Chrome OS Recovery probably is made to only make a Chrome OS recovery USB.

If you could show us exactly what is on the USB.
We may see something missing.
What you should see is a bunch of different Slacko 5.7.2 files.

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Re: Problems booting up Slacko 5.7.2 CE on a usb stick

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All the files when u unpack Slacko 5.7.2 are on the usb stick, I think. I took a look.

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'Chrome OS Recovery probably is made to only make a Chrome OS recovery USB.'

Not only, see mikeslr post in my other topic here.

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Re: Problems booting up Slacko 5.7.2 CE on a usb stick

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8Geee wrote: Fri Jul 16, 2021 6:43 pm

With USB, you have to go into BIOS and make it the 1st bootable drive seen and operated. The SD card is a nitemare, as its a proprietary driver to boot that (but its useable to store stuff in).

Its also possible you selected the wrong method of "installer"... its a USB flash drive. The wording on the CE edition can be confusing. Or maybe you need to D/L the Pup again, it may be funky.

With USB, you have to go into BIOS and make it the 1st bootable drive seen and operated'
I've done it a long time ago, it's still the same.

Btw, I re d/l Slacko 5.7.2 & it's still the same ...

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Re: Problems booting up Slacko 5.7.2 CE on a usb stick

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bigpup wrote: Fri Jul 16, 2021 11:14 pm

Try using one of these installers to do the install.
viewtopic.php?p=528#p528
Non of these are going to work in Chrome OS.
Need to use them in Windows or a normal main stream Linux OS.

Chrome OS Recovery probably is made to only make a Chrome OS recovery USB.

If you could show us exactly what is on the USB.
We may see something missing.
What you should see is a bunch of different Slacko 5.7.2 files.

Btw, what should I change to make it booting from
Ethernet?
And do you know something about the programs on the Hiren's bootCD?

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