antiX-15 flash drive install issue

pcallahan80 · posted: 2015-07-01 18:44

Successfully installed from CD/DVD...Lookin' great!!! Congratulations to the antiX-15 devs. Running very smooth.

Had some issues with USB flash drive install, though...Using dd method...tried on several different flash drives resulting in consisten error. The installation menu comes up fine...then:

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Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown -block(0,0)

Anyone else seeing that?

fatmac · posted: 2015-07-01 18:50

I think that was what I saw when I gave it a quick go the other day, just thought I may have had a bad download, but I now think it may not be a hybrid .iso. Try running isohybrid on your .iso & try again.

pcallahan80 · posted: 2015-07-01 18:54

Thanks, fatmac. Could be as simple as that...I'll try it in a minute or two...

BitJam · posted: 2015-07-01 18:56

I was unable to replicate the problem. I was able to boot a dd LiveUSB made with the command:

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sudo dd if=antiX-15-V_386-full.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=4M

If you tell me the .iso file you were using I will see if I that works here as a dd LiveUSB.

pcallahan80 · posted: 2015-07-01 19:20

Using antiX-15-V_x64-full.iso, BJ.

pcallahan80 · posted: 2015-07-01 19:25

Ran isohybrid on the file...dd method to flash drive...problem solved. So looks like antiX-15-V_x64-full.iso is not a hybrid .iso...

BitJam · posted: 2015-07-01 19:36

antiX-15-V_x64-full.iso worked fine here too. Here is the md5 sum:

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1ede769449d98d42b8e909a77218901b  antiX-15-V_x64-full.iso

kmathern · posted: 2015-07-01 19:43

pcallahan80 wrote:Ran isohybrid on the file...dd method to flash drive...problem solved. So looks like antiX-15-V_x64-full.iso is not a hybrid .iso...

I'm pretty sure it's already a isohybrid iso.
I just created a 'dd' LiveUSB with antiX-15-V_x64-full (and without needing run isohybrid on it) and it boots/runs okay.
I'm running it right now in a live-session to make this post.

pcallahan80 · posted: 2015-07-01 19:50

kmathern wrote:
pcallahan80 wrote:Ran isohybrid on the file...dd method to flash drive...problem solved. So looks like antiX-15-V_x64-full.iso is not a hybrid .iso...
I'm pretty sure it's already a isohybrid iso.
I just created a 'dd' LiveUSB with antiX-15-V_x64-full (and without needing run isohybrid on it) and it boots/runs okay.
I'm running it right now in a live-session to make this post.

Hmmm...then why would the Kernel panic go away after applying the 'isohybrid' command to the .iso?

@BitJam...my md5sum matches yours.

anticapitalista · posted: 2015-07-01 19:59

pcallahan80 - where did you download the file from?

kmathern · posted: 2015-07-01 20:05

pcallahan80 wrote:@BitJam...my md5sum matches yours.

It still matches after running isohybrid on it?

I don't think it should match if it was 'isohybridized' twice.

Doesn't the filesize get a little larger if you run isohybrid on it a 2nd time? (the 1st time being when Anti or BitJam created the iso)

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I guess not. I just ran isohybrid on my copy of the antiX-15-V_x64-full.iso file and the filesize and md5sum didn't change,

pcallahan80 · posted: 2015-07-01 20:29

anticapitalista wrote:pcallahan80 - where did you download the file from?

Hi anti, I downloaded using this link
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://sourceforge.net/projects/antix-linux/files/Final/MX-krete/"
linktext was:"https://sourceforge.net/projects/antix- ... /MX-krete/"
====================================

fatmac · posted: 2015-07-02 08:51

(I also used the link in your release statement)