Peppermint3 live usb distro problem (SOLVED)

Toonman · 27 March 2013 12:36

Just installed Peppermint3 on my micro sd usb stick (4gb with 3gb persistence)

I am stuck at the boot page.

It reads

UNbootin
Default (highlighted)

Automatic boot 10 seconds (countdown)

Every time I wait for automatic boot or press enter on default it just resets and starts again 10,9,8,7 etc and then does the same again.

Any suggestions?

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · 27 March 2013 13:13

Yeh … if you’re creating the LiveUSB on an Ubuntu based PC use Startup Disk Creator (usb-creator-gtk) instead

Toonman · 27 March 2013 13:28

Cheers. I’ll give it a go.

Toonman · 27 March 2013 13:51

I did what you said Mark. All seemed fine until re-boot. I got this:

Syslinux 3.63 Debian-2012-04-16 Ebois copyright
Missing paremeter in configuration file.
boot:

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · 27 March 2013 14:03

It’s probably the USB stick.

What happens if you hit “Tab” when you get to “boot:” … does it display any options ?

or when you get to “boot:”

live

and hit enter ?

Did you let Startup Disk Creator format the USB stick before creating ? … if not, you might want to try that in case the Unetbooting bootloaderr was left behind.

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Toonman · 27 March 2013 15:33

Nup. Not made any difference. Changed usb, formated then formated master boot record fat32…everything. The same message appears.

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · 27 March 2013 15:42

a) Did you let Startup Disk Creator do the formatting?

b) Have you checked the MD5 checksum of the ISO image ?

c) Are you sure this system can boot from LiveUSB sticks … how old is the system … have you ever successfully booted a different LiveUSB on this system ?

d) is the new USB stick the same make/model as the old one ?

Toonman · 27 March 2013 16:10

a) No
b) No
c) Yes
d) No

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · 27 March 2013 16:24

Probably a good idea to make “a” and “b” say yes then

I’ve NEVER had any problems with Peppermint on a USB stick.

Toonman · 27 March 2013 16:39

Can you tell an idiot how to check the checksum? Is it with ‘Disk utility’?

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · 27 March 2013 17:57

Let’s say the file is called Peppermint-3-20121105-i386.iso and it’s on your Desktop:

md5sum ~/Desktop/Peppermint-3-20121105-i386.iso

You should get output like:-

05157d6dbd4ab7953870e9ee308a70a5 /home/mark/Desktop/Peppermint-3-20121105-i386.iso

Check the MD5 against the ones published here:
http://peppermintos.com/download/

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Toonman · 1 April 2013 06:49

Thanks I will try that.

Toonman · 12 April 2013 13:53

Update. Sorry for delay.

Checked everything. Checksum, different usb sticks. Different distro’s. Nothing works. I vaguely remember this problem from the past and found that the only way to get a usb distro to boot was to…use the MS Windows Pendrive program! Surely not. I know it has to be me. i just do not know where I am going wrong.

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · 12 April 2013 15:20

so when you boot the LiveUSB what happens ?

Toonman · 12 April 2013 15:38

Syslinux 3.6 Debian-2012-04-16 ebios (forgot the rest) :-[

missing parameter in configuration file
boot:

SeZo · 12 April 2013 16:52

missing parameter in configuration file boot:

You could try this solution: Open your USB flash, open file /syslinux/syslinux.cfg, find the word ui and remove it along with it's following space. Save and Done Now try to boot with it.

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · 12 April 2013 16:59

Try just typing live and hitting enter.

as in:-

boot: live

and hit enter.

Toonman · 15 April 2013 10:28

Thanks Guys

Typed ‘live’

Will give Peppermint a go. Will have to get rid of the dreadful Chrome browser though!

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · 15 April 2013 12:47

Tiz odd innit ?

I have to do the:-

boot: live

thing on a LiveUSB of Peppermint One, created using usb-creator-gtk from Peppermint 3 … yet I can see nothing wrong in the syslinux.cfg ???

Maybe it’s a “version” thing … maybe it would work if I created it in Peppermint One/Ubuntu 10.04

I may give it a go at some point and see if I can work out what’s different.