32bit 12.04 revisited .iso - not able to boot
  • yossarianukyossarianuk
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    Hi - really liking the look of LXLE 14.04.

    However
    I cannot get the 32bit revisited .iso to boot at all on my Samsung n150
    netbook... (which would be better due to low ram) 
    14.04 works fine (my netbook does actually support 64 bit (first generation of atom cpus to do so I believe).


    I have
    downloaded via torrent twice - if I dd the image to USB stick it doesn't
    boot at all (I have tried multiple usb sticks also) - using dd works
    fine with 14.04 iso.

     if I wipe the usb stick and make a vfat
    partition - then use the usb startup disk creator (from kubuntu) - I get
    the grub bootloader (missing when I use dd) however after  a few
    seconds I get

    (Initramfs) mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on //filesystem.sqashfs failed: Invalid argument
    Can not mount /dev/loop0 (/cdrom/casper/filesystem.squashfs) on //filesystem.squashfs

    How can I get the 32bit revisited iso to boot?

    I have checked md5sum

    md5sum lxle-12044-32.iso

    b9bb33d4255ccd44cff146c23d899520  lxle-12044-32.iso

    Even tried to use parted to create a new 'msdos' partition table to /dev/sdb (the usb stick.) - also tried GPT.

  • lxlelxle
    PMPosts: 2,656
    format your usb stick in fat16, and use startup disk creator, regardless if you think thats bull, it will work. I often have to reformat a usb stick when its being troublesome with a particular iso, i use fat16 and it works just about everytime I ever had to do it.
  • yossarianukyossarianuk
    PMPosts: 2
    I'm assuming its related to to previously having gpt partition ?

    anyway - did the following

    (/dev/sdb is the usb stick)

    sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb  (for about 20 secs)

    sudo parted  /dev/sdb

    GNU Parted 2.3
    Using /dev/sdb
    Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
    (parted) mktable                                                         
    New disk label type? msdos

    (reinserted usb stick)
    morgan@mrkubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb

    got
    Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x63c4d97e.
    Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
    After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.

    Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)

    Command (m for help): w
    The partition table has been altered!
    morgan@mrkubuntu:~$
    So I did fdisk again

    sudo fdisk /dev/sdb

    Make a new partition (2GB size) - type - 6 (fat16)

    then format - vfat16
     sudo  mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sdb1
    then used the usb stick creator - now works thanks!


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