Hi everyone,

time again to ask the forum for some useful tips...

I tried to install antix2usb via the control centre but failed. I am using a
Toshiba A80-142 laptop. The Bios shows the USB-drive as a boot media and I have configured the BIOS so that it will first look for a flash-drive before turning to the harddisk. I have to say that somewhere on the internet I read that my computer would not be able to boot from usb, but still the BIOS says otherwise.

The antix2usb process worked quite well, though I had some difficulties to unmount the drive via the control centre.

Now to my question: When I try to boot from the usb drive, the boot process will stop after displaying the message"Loading GRUB, please wait" (or something along these lines). I am waiting for several minutes but nothing happens.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Has anyone experienced a similar problem or might this just be my BIOS?

Thanks a lot
Patric

Hi Patric. Can you test if you can boot the flashdrive in another machine?
If it still gives the same error in another machine then maybe you need to install it again.

Hi secipolla,

Thanks for your suggestion. I tried the flashdrive in another computer today, and it worked. So I guess it's really my BIOS that does not allow booting from usb-drive properly.

Patric

Hi everyone,

just one remark for people experiencing similar BIOS-Problems like me.

I found a litte programme called"Plop-Bootmanager" which allows me to start Antix from USB although my BIOS does not support this. Now everything works fine.

Patric

Good to know pbachert. I have PLoPBM installed myself since my desktop's motherboard also doesn't allow for booting from USB. It's really good but I can't boot antiX's USB installs because it (antiX, not PLoP) doesn't work with USB 1.x.
When you said 'Loading GRUB, please wait', I thought it had already found the flashdrive and was stuck in its GRUB but of course it was stuck in your HD's GRUB.

Hi everyone,

once more tapping the unlimited source of useful knowledge called antix forum...

I have installed antix2usb and I am quite happy with it. When starting Antix I get the message to run the get-iana script. However, when doing so I get the following message:

...
aggregate: no prefixes supplied
FOUND THE FOLLOWING RESERVED IP RANGES:
RESERVED_IPS=""
Failed to find reserved IPs.
Possibly the file format has been changed, or I cannot fetch the URL.

I guess this is something I should be concerned about. Any help on how to update the firewall properly?

Thank you very much in advance!
pbachert

Apparently the IANA reservations page changed format and the get-iana script can't parse it. So it's a bug waiting for someone to correct it.
I have no idea how much that's affecting the firewall or not but a simple solution is to purge firehol and install gufw. Gufw has even a simple GUI to set the firewall up.

I've found a patch for this issue:

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://us.generation-nt.com/bug-583176-firehol-iana-org-assigned-list-format-change-breaks-get-iana-sh-help-198622631.html"
linktext was:"http://us.generation-nt.com/bug-583176- ... 22631.html"
====================================


Nevertheless I think it doesn't make any harm if you leave the get-iana script as it is, and don't care about this error message, unless you use certain expressions in the firehol.conf that need the current reserved ips, i.e.

interface eth0 internet src not"${RESERVED_IPS}"

see more:

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://firehol.sourceforge.net/commands.html#use_variables"
linktext was:"http://firehol.sourceforge.net/commands ... _variables"
====================================

Thanks to everyone for your helpful suggestions.

pbachert

Yet another version

New version of the script:
Allow to choose the file system and the bootloader
Changed command line arguments
The script installs/edits the syslinux or grub config files found on the ISO to the USB device: you get the same boot options you have on the live-CD. Works only with M11 ISO
No more bootfromiso: the antix file system is copied on the key

Sorry don't have time now to write a full help file

Like it! no better , love it!!

I attach the scripts:

The shell script: use it at your own risk __{{emoticon}}__

The python script and the glade file: put them in the same directory. Not functional yet: I have to connect the GUI to the shell script, and send the output of the script to a vte window in the gui.

Note: If you choose extlinux as bootloader, the script will prompt you to install the extlinux package using apt-get. It seems apt-get install extlinux will silently install extlinux on your current boot partition

Great! Looks like a tool that is overdue for me to try out! Thanks to everyone who has worked with it, debugged it, found improvements, and shared your experiences and pictures!

lagopus, I have been testing the script and it works really well. There needs to be some changes though to cater for changes in post antiX-M11. I'll email you.