It worked fine on my cousin's laptop but when the connected the same USB to my laptop I get the error "Fatal error - slax data not found". MY laptop is Toshiba Satellite L505D-ES5025 and My cousin's laptop is LeNOVA. I have windows XP and 7 whereas my cousin only has Windows 7 so could it be because of that?
If your cousin has InsydeH20 or worse yet for Slax, a UEFI-capable BIOS that could be trying to boot in a legacy mode, that could be causing your problem, not 7. You might want to check that. I've heard of Lenovo, a very good professional and enterprise company (that makes great hardware, btw), but not Lenova! Sure you got that right? :) If you'd like me or someone else to check out more about the laptop spitting out problems, please provide the model number.
Secondly, where are you booting from? A USB stick? A CD? How does it differ? You provided no info here! On the newer computer, definitely use a USB stick, external HDD, or better. I might just mention it anyway--CDs are going the way of the dodo with netbooks and some recent amd64 computers.
Try doing the obvious. Make sure that Slax is safely copied to the drive of choice (boot and slax folders). In Windows XP, open Run from the Start menu. Type cmd and press enter. Type, let's say E:, to switch to E: if that's your flash drive's letter. Type .\boot\bootinst.bat and press enter. You can use Windows 7 instead if you want for the bootinst file, but understand you *must* run cmd as an Administrator first there for it to work properly. Restart, make sure the BIOS is set to boot from the drive (several models will not boot from external drives to stay secure by default), and boot into Slax from there. See if that works. If worse comes to worse, redownload it and check the MD5sums on your copies.
Another thing -- X on Slax is outdated. Don't get excited if X does not work properly if this laptop is as new as I think it is (e.g. a newer Intel Ironlake Mobile graphics chip will cause a problem).
"I've heard of Lenovo"
It's a chinese (as in china) firm. They bought over IBM home computer .
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I believe the IBM ThinkPads were always made by Lenovo. I have an old one here [1995] that refuses to die. I wouldn't hesitate to buy a new one, if I win the lottery or such.
Yeah--I think it's as jcsoh put it though. That's the truth afaik. Lenovo is a China based company which took over IBM. Sad day, but I meant what I said in my first post. They have really good notebooks and other hardware. Outside of HP and Apple, imho, Lenovo's hardware is one of the best. :)
@bb: I personally have a Latitude CPx built in good ole days. And I hope that it lasts. They really knew how to build computers solid back then. :) Really wish I wouldn't have given away my Mac, though--System 6 beat all this new stuff by miles! And that's speaking a lot when you could boot with 1 floppy! :)
"Sad day,"
Brand wise even Dell , Apple etc may be known as "Western " brand . But take a good look you are likely to see "made /manufactured in china". The only difference seems to be where the R & D is carried out.
Brand wise even Dell , Apple etc may be known as "Western " brand . But take a good look you are likely to see "made /manufactured in china". The only difference seems to be where the R & D is carried out.
(Long sigh)--I know what you're saying! I repaired some screen hinges recently on a HP, and everything in there's some cheap, oriental component derivative of sorts. Not to mention how *limited* everything's gotten now! I'm sure you know from the old days we had some foreign parts inside there--but nothing like now... Remember Maxtor (now Seagate)? The *original* Packard Bells? They got bought up by Acer, and those comps weren't too bad. Neither was a Performa or ][e. To me, a Dell, HP Mini, and Acer all have the same insides now--and that goes for Apple too (with supposedly higher end pieces), who tries to blatantly deny it. Right. They're NOT the Apple they used to be. Where's the "think different" ideals anyhow nowadays? Outside Darwin, they really have locked down a lot and did bad to the open source cause. :) But I still will admit that Lenovo, HP, and Apple (though I have seen HDDs fail in 'em less than a year old personally) pump out quality computers.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents. :) It's fun (but sad at the same time) to talk about this... :)
(but sad at the same time)
Not really since I am a Malaysian / Third world developing nation /Easterner / Oriental...
Given the our currency exchange rate we would really be poor is most goods are still made in the west.
But take note a lot printer / electronic good are made in china under oem license (original equipment manufacturer) . Then they just modify a bit and slap some brand only. The same oem produce the product for more than one branded company.
If you look at some lowest end basic laser printer for eg , some Brother and Xerox brand are almost identical .
Yeah—computer hardware and perphierals have followed the computers changing. It's ridiculous what toner costs! And I do know that moving some products and services overseas helps provide economic opportunities. Here, however, it's rather sad that companies are outsourcing more. It's taking away jobs and quality (because products fly off faster, IMO). And I think that's these megacompanies' problem—and that could happen anywhere. But computers keep evolving/developing, and that's not always a good thing. It just seems to me the old hardware lasted longer (except floppy drives) and had more passion poured in. :) Maybe it's just me... again, just my 2 cents. :-)
agreimann wrote:
If your cousin has InsydeH20 or worse yet for Slax, a UEFI-capable BIOS that could be trying to boot in a legacy mode, that could be causing your problem, not 7. You might want to check that. I've heard of Lenovo, a very good professional and enterprise company (that makes great hardware, btw), but not Lenova! Sure you got that right? :) If you'd like me or someone else to check out more about the laptop spitting out problems, please provide the model number.
Secondly, where are you booting from? A USB stick? A CD? How does it differ? You provided no info here! On the newer computer, definitely use a USB stick, external HDD, or better. I might just mention it anyway--CDs are going the way of the dodo with netbooks and some recent amd64 computers.
Try doing the obvious. Make sure that Slax is safely copied to the drive of choice (boot and slax folders). In Windows XP, open Run from the Start menu. Type cmd and press enter. Type, let's say E:, to switch to E: if that's your flash drive's letter. Type .bootbootinst.bat and press enter. You can use Windows 7 instead if you want for the bootinst file, but understand you *must* run cmd as an Administrator first there for it to work properly. Restart, make sure the BIOS is set to boot from the drive (several models will not boot from external drives to stay secure by default), and boot into Slax from there. See if that works. If worse comes to worse, redownload it and check the MD5sums on your copies.
Another thing -- X on Slax is outdated. Don't get excited if X does not work properly if this laptop is as new as I think it is (e.g. a newer Intel Ironlake Mobile graphics chip will cause a problem).
Hope all this helps. Good luck. :) To begin with here is a video of what happens, http://youtu.be/5kWvwvSTypU .
OK--first thing I noticed is that you are not booting Slax alone (that is, the drive is a custom mess)--it's jam packed with other options. Back up your flash drive and get rid of all the other "distros", the bootloader you've got on there--everything--in other words, format the drive FAT32 over. Copy the boot and slax folders to it. Open Command Prompt. If you're using Vista, 7, or 8 CP, right-click it and Run as Administrator. Then, find your flash drive in Computer. We'll say it's G:. Type G: to switch, then .\boot\bootinst.bat. Finish the script out and reboot. Even if your flash drive worked on the other computer, I would definitely try this.
Now, if cleaning up and starting over did not solve the problem, than let me see if we can continue troubleshooting here. First, the kernel init is complaining about ACPI a lot--not sure why, but that could affect something. Or, you could be running in a legacy mode on a newer BIOS.
Also, Linux boots otherwise, and we get through most of the init. You're at a stopping point where it cannot find Slax. With your clean flash drive, we can simply mkdir /mnt/sda1, then mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 and try to resume things from there. sda1 is the most common; there are other mappings that may be used. Try booting without changes and see if that fixes anything. But I doubt if you clean your flash drive you'll encounter this problem.
And not all computers support booting from USB. Access BIOS Setup (most PCs have this as F2), and turn on any USB support if not on. Turn on BIOS Legacy if you have an EFI machine. If all else fails, burn the .iso to disc:
1) Download ImgBurn.
2) Select the image to burn to disc.
3) Burn and reboot. You should NOT have the slax.iso file visible when you open the CD's contents, or a dragged-and-dropped boot and slax on it. You should instead see the boot and slax folders on the completed CD.
Oh, and, one last thing. If you're going to put the .iso on a flash drive, download 7Zip and extract it like you would a zip file. Drag boot and slax to the flash drive from there.
Good luck. Hope this helps you. :) If not, post back to see what can be done.
