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Follow steps 1-4 , but "new" vesamenu.c32 is 26,5 kB from 06/10/2014 -> reboot -> same result .

Copy ./bios/com32/libutil/libutil.c32 in ./slax/boot/ and ./bios/com32/lib/libcom.c32 ( ./bios/com32/libcom - not exist ) in ./slax/boot

Reboot -> Result:

Undef symbol FAIL: SysAppends
Failed to load libcom32.c32
Failed to load COM32 file /slax/boot/vesamenu.c32

Laptop Lenovo G550 , try file system ntfs , ext4 and fat32 for slax 9 x64 and slax 9 x32 fat32

Problem solved !
Under Windows 7 Ultimate x32 unzip slax9.iso x64 -> copy all on USB device FAT32 -> run ./slax/boot/bootinst.bat

all work .

Now write in my old system slax 7 x32 because can't see wireless icon ( need driver for broadcom )

if I just copy vesamenu.c32
got:
failed to load libcom32.c32
failed to load COM32 file /slax/boot/vesamenu.c32
...

if i add libutil.c32 and libcom32.c32 got:
Undef symbol FAIL: __syslinux_debug_
failed to load libcom32.c32
failed to load COM32 file /slax/boot/vesamenu.c32

I try to add menu.c32
same errors

I had the same error with a usb stick after executed the bootinst.sh from my normal debian (stretch) system. I plugged the usb on a virtual machine and executed the bootinst.sh again from a slax session. The problem is solved.

Just execute the script from a slax session.

I suggest you to use isohybrid tool for the ISO you distribute, this will allow your users to simply "dd" the ISO to flash or drive and work is done.

http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Isohybrid

This will make the process not dependent on user's syslinux package, because with isohybrid there is syslinux embedded in the ISO already. Resulting ISO might get little bit bigger, but it is possible to skip UEFI or Mac loaders for smaller size. We use this successfully for years for upstream users and downstream customers.

I support the suggestion of Lukáš Zapletal, it would make things much easier.

isohybrid system doesn't work if I want to keep destination drive filesystem and files.
Furthermore, proceeding in this way, is the dd destination writable?

Now it gets weird. Using Linux Mint 18.2 as installation distro, the USB stick works out-of-the-box. I didn't have to change anything. It obviously strongly depends on the distro used for installation whether it works or not.

Using isohybrid simplifies putting the ISO on a USB disk, but as far as I understand such USB disk is no more writable, since using dd puts ISO filesystem on it. The main advantage of Slax on USB disk is the possibility to enable Persistent changes.

I like the possibility of enabling persistance, but the success of failure of the installation process for the USB stick should not depend on the distro used.

Yeah that is strange

I just reviewed the bootinst.sh script since I no longer remembered how it works. Well, it tries to use your system's extlinux if you have one. If not, then it uses extlinux binary provided by Slax.

So now the question is, what fails - if your local extlinux in your distro (because if it is found then it is used) or the extlinux.exe binary in Slax which is used only if nothing is found in your distro.

I would guess the problem is in Slax's binary because it was not updated for long time, so I'll update it anyway.

That's a good idea.

try the Juan De Abajo's recipe.
make the copy of slax directory on my fedora
reboot on a slax CD
run the bootinst.sh
reboot on the stick
and then it works.
THANKS

I had to put Slax in FAT instead of ext4 as well. I will try now to bootinst.sh with ext4 from Slax now.

I would love to see an official small forum or IRC channel for discussion as well for people to help each other more easily.

I just cp'd the libutil.c32 & libcom.c32 from /usr/lib/syslinux bios set and changed syslinux.cfg ui line to UI vesamenu.c32 without the absolute path.. seems to be fine on an sd card raw'd to virtualbox.

I found this post https://askubuntu.com/a/856822/451282
so I copied :
libcom32.c32
menu.c32
libutil.c32
versamenu.c32

from /usr/lib/syslinux/bios to /slax/boot/ and now its working on my Dell E6320

I agree with Russell Hernandez about the forum

@Russel Hernandez Me too. But Nevermind, I'll ask here. I've got an old Computer with 2 Gigs of RAM, a Celeron D and a 80 Gig hardrdrive mounted through ATA/IDE to the Motherboard, an Asus P5S800-VM. I'm keen to install Linux and GCC to start learning C++ programming, I've got the right book for that. But as I understand you can't turn on the Copy2RAM feature and have Persistant Changes working and writing on your harddrive, am I wrong? It's still a great OS, I'm just rude and demanding really high things.

You should be able to use both, press Tab key on boot logo screen and add "toram perch" to the command line. It should copy to ram, and also keep changes persistent.

OR you can use rufus (www.rufus.org)(you have to be using Windows or wine)
it configures the os and uses newer SYSLINUX - which didn't give me any errors so far. Actually I use Rufus to make my PC to see my thumb drive bootable. Using EasyBCD's "PLoP" made my PC crash so I went with rufus.

I have observed the same vesamenu.c32 issue on ythe ext4 usb drive and the post of Schronk Tamás worked well for my ThinkPad box. Thank you!

Hello, the truth is I'm new to this and I have a problem that I would like to solve, when I give boot load to the modules, and everything from there should start as in other computers in this is left blinking the black screen, assumed that they were the video controllers and add the ones of my card loads the modules and asked me for a library that was libselinux.so.1 which I found on the slax page and implemente, I give boot and now I ask another library libseccomp.so. 2 was looking for it on the page but it is not found, I do not use much linux and I would like to know where to get that library and how to implement it

I, just a little bit confused, that which one is suitable for me to use, in libutil.c32 and libcom.c32u, Please suggest me the better one on <a href="http://yahoocustomerservice.co/">Yahoo Support</a>

1. Just prepare two USB sticks.
2. For first USB prepare it using Universal USB Installer.
3. On second USB just unpack ISO file using 7-zip (or something else - in my case it was WinCDEmu).
4. Format HDD using desired filesystems (I used ESX4).
5. Run system from first USB (Run Slax (Fresh start).
6. After that copy 'Slax' folder to root directory of your HDD.
7. Navigate to /slax/boot/ directory on your HDD and double click 'bootinst.sh'.
8. Shut down your PC and remove all USB sticks, then start PC.
9. Done! It worked for me, I tried two hours of attempts before succeed.

Thanks Tomasz. Work for me. You are the best.

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