32 bit antiX-25.a2-full for testers

After installing & living with this alpha for a while, the only thing I find that isn’t working for me is lxappearance. The theme isn’t changed in some of the windows, like control centre.
But this is running like a 1.0 release otherwise. Thank you for all your work.

I edited again my #185377 post. I corrected the initial repo and updated without any problems.

Brian Masinick wrote:

I’d leave it alone for now.

If you want to “experiment”, copy the original to your home directory; you can copy it back if you don’t like the result; I do this from time to time. I helps me “keep track” of my experiments without permanently disrupting the regular workflow.

Thanks, again.

I’m getting an error one on of my default repos…. it used to work… http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/linux/mx

I’d copy and paste exact text but it’s in a qemu VM and that’s not working, plus for some reason I can’t even ssh into it, will try to figure that out later… but screenshot attached.

andfree wrote:

But the issue with Repo Manager still remains.

Not anymore. Today, after update, I can change repos via Repo Manager without problem.

Sorry for being that late with writing here after downloading the ISO initially long ago already. Reason is: I was not able to create a Live USB stick which is accepted by my 32 bit testing device, which has no internal HDD and no CD/DVD drive, so I can only boot from USB.

The USB stick is detected immediately as Boot device by the BIOS by its proper name. But when I select it, the screen goes black after a second or two and shows merely the two words “Boot failure” in the upper left corner, not doing anything else anymore.

I tried different USB stick types, and also different expert settings in the antiX USB maker tool:

1st try. My personal default: GPT, pmbr_boot, additional data partition. vfat for boot partition, ext4 for antiX partition.
2nd try. antiX default: MBR, use 100% of the devivce. vfat for boot partition, ext4 for antix partition.
3rd try. antiX default + EFI partition formatted with ntfs instead of vfat

none of these do work in four different USB sticks of different manufacturers, which are all recognised initially as a valid boot device by the BIOS, but all show the described error.

Now I wanted to change the boot partition format to something more compatible, e.g. fat32 or fat, and found that this is not possible in antiX Live USB Maker: I merely can select

vfat
exfat
ext4
ntfs

from the pulldown, neither fat nor non-vfat fat32. This is the partition which is marked with the “boot” flag by the live USB maker, so I guess this is what the BIOS actually accesses. Maybe I’m wrong here, please correct my.

But I believe the BIOS would expect non-vfat, either fat32 or fat format for the boot partition. Is it possible at all to write the stick this way with antiX USB Maker, or wouldn’t that affect the boot at all, I mean, is the additional efi partition accessed for boot from a legacy bios at all?

Next I’ll try to dd the ISO to one of the USB sticks, but then I can’t apply the advanced LIVE features remaster and persistence, which I’d really need due to the lack of an internal HDD.

Ideas? Is it actually possible the vfat format in the antiX-UEFI partition blocks the sticks from booting on a BIOS expecting non-vfat ?

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===============================================================================
Starte live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302
===============================================================================
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302 Live Mediengerät /dev/sdb gefunden
Gerät /dev/sdc (58,6G Generic Flash Disk) wird als Ziel verwendet
Datei /media/sda4/Arbeitsordner/antiX/antiX 25.a2-testing/antiX-25.a2-runit_386-full.iso wird als Quelle verwendet
Distro: antiX-25.a2-runit_386-full alpha2 14 August 2025
Grub Konfiguration 2.0 gefunden

                      gesamt   benutzt  unbelegt
 Gesamtes Laufwerk  58.6 GiB 58.6 GiB     0 MiB
    Datenpartition  29.3 GiB    0 MiB  29.3 GiB
    Hauptpartition  29.2 GiB 2.00 GiB  27.2 GiB
    UEFI Partition    50 MiB   32 MiB    18 MiB
Erzeugung einer führenden ext4 Datenpartition
Bereit live-usb auf Gerät sdc
... mit Kopiere Datei /media/sda4/Arbeitsordner/antiX/antiX 25.a2-testing/antiX-25.a2-runit_386-full.iso zu erstellen
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: partition-clear >> partition-clear
 > dd status=none if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=34
 > dd status=none if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=34 seek=64
 > dd status=none conv=notrunc if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=34 seek=122879966
 > partprobe /dev/sdc
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: partition-make >> partition-make
gpt Partitionierung wird verwendet
 > parted --script --align optimal /dev/sdc unit MiB mklabel gpt
 > dd status=none if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc seek=1024 bs=1K count=128
 > parted --script --align optimal /dev/sdc unit MiB mkpart primary 1 30000
 > dd status=none if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc seek=30720000 bs=1K count=128
 > parted --script --align optimal /dev/sdc unit MiB mkpart primary 30000 59948
 > parted --script --align optimal /dev/sdc unit MiB set 2 legacy_boot on
 > dd status=none if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc seek=61386752 bs=1K count=128
 > parted --script --align optimal /dev/sdc unit MiB mkpart primary 59948 59997
 > parted --script --align optimal /dev/sdc unit MiB set 3 esp on
 > parted --script --align optimal /dev/sdc unit MiB disk_set pmbr_boot on
 > partprobe /dev/sdc
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: makefs-data >> makefs-data
 > wait_for_file /dev/sdc1
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: makefs-data >> makefs-data
Erzeuge ext4 Dateisystem
 > mkfs.ext4 -L USB-DATA /dev/sdc1
mke2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
Ein Dateisystem mit 7679744 (4k) Blöcken und 1921360 Inodes wird erzeugt.
UUID des Dateisystems: f87297f3-037e-4cce-8092-10b466f69801
Superblock-Sicherungskopien gespeichert in den Blöcken: 
	32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 
	4096000

beim Anfordern von Speicher für die Gruppentabellen:   0/235       erledigt                        
Inode-Tabellen werden geschrieben:   0/235       erledigt                        
Das Journal (32768 Blöcke) wird angelegt: erledigt
Die Superblöcke und die Informationen über die Dateisystemnutzung werden
geschrieben:   0/235       erledigt

 > partprobe /dev/sdc1
 > mount /dev/sdc1 ./data
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: set-ownership >> set-ownership
Setting data partition ownership to Robin:users
 > setfacl -m u::rwx,g::rwx,o::r-x ./data/.
 > setfacl -d -m u::rwx,g::rwx,o::r-x ./data/.
 > chown Robin:users ./data/.
 > chmod g+rwx ./data/.
 > umount ./data
 > wait_for_file /dev/sdc2
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: makefs-bios >> makefs-bios
 > mkfs.ext4 -O ^64bit -m0 -i16384 -J size=32 /dev/sdc2
mke2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
Die Unterstützung für 64-bittige Dateisysteme wurde nicht aktiviert. Die längeren Felder, die diese Eigenschaft benötigt erlauben die Erstellung der Prüfsumme in voller Stärke. Geben Sie „-O 64bit” an, um dies zu korrigieren.
Ein Dateisystem mit 7666688 (4k) Blöcken und 1916928 Inodes wird erzeugt.
UUID des Dateisystems: f3ec9e78-5060-4ec0-9924-584086b926ff
Superblock-Sicherungskopien gespeichert in den Blöcken: 
	32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 
	4096000

beim Anfordern von Speicher für die Gruppentabellen:   0/234       erledigt                        
Inode-Tabellen werden geschrieben:   0/234  1/234       erledigt                        
Das Journal (8192 Blöcke) wird angelegt: erledigt
Die Superblöcke und die Informationen über die Dateisystemnutzung werden
geschrieben:   0/234       erledigt

 > tune2fs -L antiX-Live-usb /dev/sdc2
tune2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
 > wait_for_file /dev/sdc3
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: makefs-uefi >> makefs-uefi
 > mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n ANTIX-UEFI /dev/sdc3
mkfs.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
 > partprobe /dev/sdc
 > wait_for_file /dev/sdc2
 > mkdir -p ./main
 > mount -t ext4 /dev/sdc2 ./main
 > wait_for_file /dev/sdc3
 > mkdir -p ./uefi
 > mount -t vfat /dev/sdc3 ./uefi
 > wait_for_file /dev/sdc1
 > mkdir -p ./data
 > mount -t ext4 /dev/sdc1 ./data

Dateisystem    Typ  Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf
/dev/sdc1      ext4   29G     24K   28G    1% data
/dev/sdc2      ext4   29G     24K   29G    1% main
/dev/sdc3      vfat   49M     512   49M    1% uefi

live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: copy-uefi >> copy-uefi
Kopiere von iso auf Partition uefi
Dateien [Ee][Ff][Ii] version
 > cp --no-dereference --preserve=mode,links --recursive ./iso/EFI ./uefi/.
 > cp --no-dereference --preserve=mode,links --recursive ./iso/version ./uefi/.
Dell uefi memtest Bug beheben
 > cp ./uefi/EFI/BOOT/grubx64.efi ./uefi/EFI/BOOT/fallback.efi
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: copy-main >> copy-main
 > rm -rf ./main/boot.orig
Kopiere von iso auf Partition main
copy /antiX/vmlinuz
 > cpio -pdm --quiet ./main/
 > e4defrag -v ./antiX/vmlinuz
e4defrag 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
ext4 defragmentation for ./antiX/vmlinuz
[1/1][79;0H[K[1/1]./antiX/vmlinuz:	  0%[79;0H[K[1/1]./antiX/vmlinuz:	100%  extents: 2 -> 1	[ OK ]
 Success:			[1/1]
copy /antiX/initrd.gz
 > cpio -pdm --quiet ./main/
 > e4defrag -v ./antiX/initrd.gz
e4defrag 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
ext4 defragmentation for ./antiX/initrd.gz
[1/1][79;0H[K[1/1]./antiX/initrd.gz:	  0%[79;0H[K[1/1]./antiX/initrd.gz:	100%  extents: 2 -> 1	[ OK ]
 Success:			[1/1]
copy remaining files ...
 > cpio -pdm --quiet ./main/

 > write_file ./main/made-by-live-usb-maker   created: Fr 15. Aug 08:59:44 CEST 2025
  program: live-usb-maker
  version: 2.41.19-2302 (Sat, 25 Feb 2023 12:45:10 -0500)
 > dd status=none if=/dev/urandom of=./main/antiX/random-seed bs=512 count=1
 > chmod 600 ./main/antiX/random-seed
 > rm -rf ./main/.disk
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: check-usb-md5 >> check-usb-md5
Überprüfung von md5 für initrd.gz
 > md5sum -c initrd.gz.md5
initrd.gz: OK
Überprüfung von md5 für linuxfs
 > md5sum -c linuxfs.md5
linuxfs: OK
Überprüfung von md5 für vmlinuz
 > md5sum -c vmlinuz.md5
vmlinuz: OK
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: uuids >> uuids
Benutze antiX/MX Grub Config 2.0
 > mkdir -p ./uefi/boot/grub
 > cp ./main/boot/grub/config/efi-grub.cfg ./uefi/boot/grub/grub.cfg
 > touch ./main/boot/grub/config/did-efi-grub
 > sed -i /^\s*#/! s/%UUID%/f3ec9e78-5060-4ec0-9924-584086b926ff/ ./uefi/boot/grub/grub.cfg
 > rm -f ./main/boot/grub/config/*.id
 > touch ./main/boot/grub/config/a36610cf2c1e35db02cc15377e3713b2.id
 > sed -i /^\s*#/! s|%ID_FILE%|/boot/grub/config/a36610cf2c1e35db02cc15377e3713b2.id| ./uefi/boot/grub/grub.cfg
 > mkdir -p ./main/antiX
 > write_file ./main/antiX/data-uuid f87297f3-037e-4cce-8092-10b466f69801
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: install >> Installieren
extlinux version 6.04
 > dd status=none bs=440 conv=notrunc count=1 if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr/gptmbr.bin of=/dev/sdc
 > rm -f ./main/boot/syslinux/chain.c32
 > rm -f ./main/boot/syslinux/gfxboot.c32
 > rm -f ./main/boot/syslinux/ldlinux.c32
 > rm -f ./main/boot/syslinux/libcom32.c32
 > rm -f ./main/boot/syslinux/libmenu.c32
 > rm -f ./main/boot/syslinux/libutil.c32
 > rm -f ./main/boot/syslinux/menu.c32
 > rm -f ./main/boot/syslinux/syslinux.bin
 > rm -f ./main/boot/syslinux/version
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/chain.c32 ./main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/gfxboot.c32 ./main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/vesamenu.c32 ./main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/ldlinux.c32 ./main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/libcom32.c32 ./main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/libmenu.c32 ./main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/libutil.c32 ./main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/linux.c32 ./main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/menu.c32 ./main/boot/syslinux/
 > write_file ./main/boot/syslinux/version 6.04
 > extlinux -i ./main/boot/syslinux
/run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux is device /dev/sdc2

Dateisystem    Typ  Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf
/dev/sdc1      ext4   29G     24K   28G    1% data
/dev/sdc2      ext4   29G    2,0G   27G    7% main
/dev/sdc3      vfat   49M     13M   36M   26% uefi

>> Abgeschlossen

live-usb-maker took 18 minutes and 39 seconds.

===============================================================================
Starte live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302
===============================================================================
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302 Live Mediengerät /dev/sdb gefunden
Gerät /dev/sdc (58,6G VendorC ProductCode) wird als Ziel verwendet
Datei /media/sda4/Arbeitsordner/antiX/antiX 25.a2-testing/antiX-25.a2-runit_386-full.iso wird als Quelle verwendet
Distro: antiX-25.a2-runit_386-full alpha2 14 August 2025
Grub Konfiguration 2.0 gefunden

                      gesamt   benutzt  unbelegt
 Gesamtes Laufwerk  58.6 GiB 58.6 GiB     1 MiB
    Hauptpartition  58.5 GiB 2.00 GiB  56.5 GiB
    UEFI Partition    50 MiB   32 MiB    18 MiB
Bereit live-usb auf Gerät sdc
... mit Kopiere Datei /media/sda4/Arbeitsordner/antiX/antiX 25.a2-testing/antiX-25.a2-runit_386-full.iso zu erstellen
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: partition-clear >> partition-clear
 > dd status=none if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=34
 > dd status=none if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=34 seek=64
 > dd status=none conv=notrunc if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=34 seek=122879966
 > partprobe /dev/sdc
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: partition-make >> partition-make
msdos Partitionierung wird verwendet
 > parted --script --align optimal /dev/sdc unit MiB mklabel msdos
 > dd status=none if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc seek=1024 bs=1K count=128
 > parted --script --align optimal /dev/sdc unit MiB mkpart primary 1 59949
 > parted --script --align optimal /dev/sdc unit MiB set 1 boot on
 > dd status=none if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc seek=61387776 bs=1K count=128
 > parted --script --align optimal /dev/sdc unit MiB mkpart primary 59949 59998
 > parted --script --align optimal /dev/sdc unit MiB set 2 esp on
 > partprobe /dev/sdc
 > wait_for_file /dev/sdc1
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: makefs-bios >> makefs-bios
 > mkfs.ext4 -O ^64bit -m0 -i16384 -J size=32 /dev/sdc1
mke2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
Die Unterstützung für 64-bittige Dateisysteme wurde nicht aktiviert. Die längeren Felder, die diese Eigenschaft benötigt erlauben die Erstellung der Prüfsumme in voller Stärke. Geben Sie „-O 64bit” an, um dies zu korrigieren.
Ein Dateisystem mit 15346688 (4k) Blöcken und 3842048 Inodes wird erzeugt.
UUID des Dateisystems: 4f1d90ed-aa6d-4761-8b8b-83c996573636
Superblock-Sicherungskopien gespeichert in den Blöcken: 
	32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 
	4096000, 7962624, 11239424

beim Anfordern von Speicher für die Gruppentabellen:   0/469       erledigt                        
Inode-Tabellen werden geschrieben:   0/469  1/469       erledigt                        
Das Journal (8192 Blöcke) wird angelegt: erledigt
Die Superblöcke und die Informationen über die Dateisystemnutzung werden
geschrieben:   0/469       erledigt

 > tune2fs -L antiX-Live-usb /dev/sdc1
tune2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
 > wait_for_file /dev/sdc2
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: makefs-uefi >> makefs-uefi
 > mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n ANTIX-UEFI /dev/sdc2
mkfs.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
 > partprobe /dev/sdc
 > wait_for_file /dev/sdc1
 > mkdir -p ./main
 > mount -t ext4 /dev/sdc1 ./main
 > wait_for_file /dev/sdc2
 > mkdir -p ./uefi
 > mount -t vfat /dev/sdc2 ./uefi

Dateisystem    Typ  Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf
/dev/sdc1      ext4   58G     24K   58G    1% main
/dev/sdc2      vfat   49M     512   49M    1% uefi

live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: copy-uefi >> copy-uefi
Kopiere von iso auf Partition uefi
Dateien [Ee][Ff][Ii] version
 > cp --no-dereference --preserve=mode,links --recursive ./iso/EFI ./uefi/.
 > cp --no-dereference --preserve=mode,links --recursive ./iso/version ./uefi/.
Dell uefi memtest Bug beheben
 > cp ./uefi/EFI/BOOT/grubx64.efi ./uefi/EFI/BOOT/fallback.efi
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: copy-main >> copy-main
 > rm -rf ./main/boot.orig
Kopiere von iso auf Partition main
copy /antiX/vmlinuz
 > cpio -pdm --quiet ./main/
 > e4defrag -v ./antiX/vmlinuz
e4defrag 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
ext4 defragmentation for ./antiX/vmlinuz
[1/1][79;0H[K[1/1]./antiX/vmlinuz:	100%  extents: 1 -> 1	[ OK ]
 Success:			[1/1]
copy /antiX/initrd.gz
 > cpio -pdm --quiet ./main/
 > e4defrag -v ./antiX/initrd.gz
e4defrag 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
ext4 defragmentation for ./antiX/initrd.gz
[1/1][79;0H[K[1/1]./antiX/initrd.gz:	  0%[79;0H[K[1/1]./antiX/initrd.gz:	100%  extents: 2 -> 1	[ OK ]
 Success:			[1/1]
copy remaining files ...
 > cpio -pdm --quiet ./main/

 > write_file ./main/made-by-live-usb-maker   created: So 28. Sep 08:19:34 CEST 2025
  program: live-usb-maker
  version: 2.41.19-2302 (Sat, 25 Feb 2023 12:45:10 -0500)
 > dd status=none if=/dev/urandom of=./main/antiX/random-seed bs=512 count=1
 > chmod 600 ./main/antiX/random-seed
 > rm -rf ./main/.disk
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: check-usb-md5 >> check-usb-md5
Überprüfung von md5 für initrd.gz
 > md5sum -c initrd.gz.md5
initrd.gz: OK
Überprüfung von md5 für linuxfs
 > md5sum -c linuxfs.md5
linuxfs: OK
Überprüfung von md5 für vmlinuz
 > md5sum -c vmlinuz.md5
vmlinuz: OK
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: uuids >> uuids
Benutze antiX/MX Grub Config 2.0
 > mkdir -p ./uefi/boot/grub
 > cp ./main/boot/grub/config/efi-grub.cfg ./uefi/boot/grub/grub.cfg
 > touch ./main/boot/grub/config/did-efi-grub
 > sed -i /^\s*#/! s/%UUID%/4f1d90ed-aa6d-4761-8b8b-83c996573636/ ./uefi/boot/grub/grub.cfg
 > rm -f ./main/boot/grub/config/*.id
 > touch ./main/boot/grub/config/c8f80f5c48348ad76adf771d838a31e2.id
 > sed -i /^\s*#/! s|%ID_FILE%|/boot/grub/config/c8f80f5c48348ad76adf771d838a31e2.id| ./uefi/boot/grub/grub.cfg
live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302: install >> Installieren
extlinux version 6.04
 > dd status=none bs=440 conv=notrunc count=1 if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdc
 > rm -f ./main/boot/syslinux/chain.c32
 > rm -f ./main/boot/syslinux/gfxboot.c32
 > rm -f ./main/boot/syslinux/ldlinux.c32
 > rm -f ./main/boot/syslinux/libcom32.c32
 > rm -f ./main/boot/syslinux/libmenu.c32
 > rm -f ./main/boot/syslinux/libutil.c32
 > rm -f ./main/boot/syslinux/menu.c32
 > rm -f ./main/boot/syslinux/syslinux.bin
 > rm -f ./main/boot/syslinux/version
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/chain.c32 ./main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/gfxboot.c32 ./main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/vesamenu.c32 ./main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/ldlinux.c32 ./main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/libcom32.c32 ./main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/libmenu.c32 ./main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/libutil.c32 ./main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/linux.c32 ./main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/menu.c32 ./main/boot/syslinux/
 > write_file ./main/boot/syslinux/version 6.04
 > extlinux -i ./main/boot/syslinux
/run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux is device /dev/sdc1

Dateisystem    Typ  Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf
/dev/sdc1      ext4   58G    2,0G   56G    4% main
/dev/sdc2      vfat   49M     13M   36M   26% uefi

>> Abgeschlossen

live-usb-maker took 3 minutes and 51 seconds.

j0ta wrote:

have you tried make the usb partition msdos ?

Thanks @j0ta. Even when my first try was with gpt, all other attempts have been done with an MSDOS partition table on the sticks. Now back from testing with the ISO having been written by dd to the stick directly, showing up as Joliet/ISO 9660.

Same result. Boot error before even antiX boot screen is displayed.

Also meanwhile I’ve changed the partition setting from “esp” to “boot” in the UEFI vfat partition in the “fully featured” approach, and additionally changed the “boot” flag to “bls-boot” the antiX ext4 partition in the hope that now grub in the efi partition will be recognized finally. All in vein.

Will try next to replace the EFI vfat partition by a default fat or fat32 partition, and then (re-)install a bootloader (syslinux or grub) into this extra partition on the LIVE USB stick, pointing to the ext4 partition then for actual antiX startup, in the hope that then the PC can finally boot it. But it’s late today already, time for mattress eavesdropping service 🙂 So continuing with trying to bring it up finally only tomorrow evening.

All I know about that device by now is, that it is a MSI desktop PC from 2004, with Celeron 2.8 GHz and plenty of RAM, but I didn’t make it to read out the inxi. Maybe I should download and try an older antiX version first, possibly that could boot so I get at least an initial inxi readout.

Finally I made it boot. Alpha2 works really fine on this device. Took some hours of steady try and error until I understood what’s going on with this boot issue.
Luckily I had an old antiX 17.4.1 (remastered) USB-stick-backup 1:1 image which I dd’d to the stick, and immediately the antiX boot screen turned up. (The OS booted fine from this 17.4.1 backup, but that is not what counts here.) The interesting part is: Now I have simply copied over all the content from the antiX folder of a freshly created, non booting 25.a2 stick to the antiX folder of the booting 17.4.1 stick, overwriting/deleting all of the antiX 17.4.1 related files therein. Additionally fixed the entries in boot/syslinux/sylinux.cfg according to the file found on the 25.a2 stick. (And yes, sure I have carefully checked the shasum before creating the a2 sticks from the downloaded ISOs, so not an issue caused by a corrupted download.)

That did it. This franken-25a2-USB stick Boots straight away to the default antiX boot screen and then comes up with the antiX 25a2 desktop flawlessly.

I’ll investigate further what causes the recent default stick not to boot as expected.
Major differences are:
– The old stick (in the backup image) has been created with an old Live USB maker version, using syslinux 6.0.3, running on a 32 bit system.
– The failing stick has been created on antiX 23.1 full runit 64bit.
– The old stick has merely a single partition, FAT32 formatted, with the markers “boot, LBA”.
– The failing stick has two partitions, the second one FAT32, marked as “boot”. The first one is ext4, containing the complete boot folder, while the FAT32 partition seems only to contain EFI related stuff for grub boot.

The failing stick hangs even when redoing all the extlinux/syslinux or grub setup, either with “boot error” or “Grub” followed by a blinking cursor, which most likely points to the BIOS simply not able to access the ext4 partition for entering the next boot stage after stage 1 from the boot sector.

I have meanwhile added a huge ext4 Data partition to the functioning stick, and it still boots fine. So it is obviously not a problem to have more than a single partition on the stick. But it seems there is an issue with the order possibly: The FAT32 boot partition needs possibly to be the first one, since I already had tried to install the complete bootloader to the existing FAT32 partition of the original 25a2 stick (which I even removed and created new from scratch), there was no sign of entering a next boot stage, no syslinux or grub version message line nor further error messages from execution of next boot stages.

I’ll do some further analysing and testing, so the antiX USB sticks for 32 bit devices can be designed a bit more compatible again for these devices. I guess there is no need for an additional UEFI partition in 32 bit (except for some early 32 bit apple devices using EFI)? Instead it should come with a proper FAT32 boot partition designed for utmost BIOS compatibility in standard PCs.

Fist impressions of the 25a2 version:

1.) Great, really: antiX Acoustic Colours works now even on 32 bit without any stuttering. Pipewire, wireplumber, etc. now system load down to 17% total when processing audio.
Still depending highly on sample rate: 128kbps@48khz is fine, while 320kbps@44khz or 48khz drives CPU up to 70…100%.
Also, having open (and keeping open) pavucontrol causes dropout in audio, driving CPU up to 100% constant.
(Observed in “Analog Stereo Duplex” mode and “Pro Audio” mode both.) Closing pavucontrol restores frecklesfree sound again immediately, and CPU load drops to ~20% even when easyeffects is engaged with antiX Accoustic Colours Cathederal mode (~10% when easyeffects is turned off completely). These are reasonable values already.

2.) There is an issue with inxi. Hangs forever when checking the Graphics. Needs to be addressed.

$ sudo inxi -zv8 --za --zv
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.240-antix.1-486-smp arch: i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm parameters: vga=791 lang=de_DE
    tz=Europe/Berlin quiet splash=v disable=lx
  Desktop: IceWM v: 3.8.2 tools: avail: slock,xlock dm: slimski v: 1.5.0
    Distro: antiX-25.a2-runit_386-full alpha2 14 August 2025 base: Debian
    GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: MICRO-STAR model: MS-7065 v: 100 serial: <filter>
    BIOS: American Megatrends v: 1.1 on 07.00T date: 10/22/04
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
  System RAM: total: 2 GiB available: 1.96 GiB used: 1.42 GiB (72.7%)
    igpu: 8 MiB
  Array-1: capacity: 4 GiB slots: 4 modules: 0 EC: None
    max-module-size: 1024 MiB
  Device-1: DIMM1 info: double-bank type: DIMM SDRAM detail: N/A
    size: 1024 MiB speed: N/A volts: N/A width: N/A manufacturer: N/A
    part-no: N/A serial: N/A
  Device-2: DIMM2 info: not installed type: N/A size: N/A speed: N/A
    volts: N/A width: N/A manufacturer: N/A part-no: N/A serial: N/A
  Device-3: DIMM3 info: double-bank type: DIMM SDRAM detail: N/A
    size: 1024 MiB speed: N/A volts: N/A width: N/A manufacturer: N/A
    part-no: N/A serial: N/A
  Device-4: ROW-3 info: not installed type: N/A size: N/A speed: N/A
    volts: N/A width: N/A manufacturer: N/A part-no: N/A serial: N/A
PCI Slots:
  Slot: 1 type: PCI status: available length: long volts: 3.3 bus-ID: N/A
  Slot: 2 type: PCI status: available length: long volts: 3.3 bus-ID: N/A
  Slot: 3 type: PCI status: unknown length: long volts: 3.3 bus-ID: N/A
  Slot: 4 type: PCI status: unknown length: long volts: 3.3 bus-ID: N/A
  Slot: 5 type: PCI status: unknown length: long volts: 3.3 bus-ID: N/A
  Slot: 4 type: PCI status: unknown length: long volts: 3.3 bus-ID: N/A
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Celeron socket: 478 (FC-478) note: check bits: 32
    arch: Netburst Prescott built: 2004-06 process: Intel 90nm family: 0xF (15)
    model-id: 4 stepping: 1 microcode: N/A
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 cores: 1 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 16 KiB
    desc: d-1x16 KiB L2: 256 KiB desc: 1x256 KiB
  Speed (MHz): 2812 min/max: N/A base/boost: 2800/4000 volts: 3.3 V
    ext-clock: 133 MHz core: 1: 2812 bogomips: 5624
  Flags: acpi apic bts cid clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cx8 de ds_cpl
    dtes64 dts fpu fxsr ht mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr pae pat pbe pebs pge
    pni pse pse36 sep ss sse sse2 tm tsc vme xtpr
  Vulnerabilities: <filter>

(here inxi -G hangs forever, so every verboseability above -v0 also hangs in this place where graphics is processed, inxi must be killed by ctrl+c to recover. I’ll try to replace the script by the most recent version from codeberg, and if this doesn’t fix things already I’ll file a bug report for this over there.)

Workaround: Missing system data, collected by other commands:

$ sudo lspci -vvv

gives the following for the graphics:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2572] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Hetis 865GV-E (MS-7065) [1462:7650]
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
	Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) 
	Memory at ffe80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) 
	I/O ports at ec00 
	Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] 
	Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915

$ sudo inxi -Aaaa
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801EB/ER AC97 Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI Hetis 865GV-E
    driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.5 chip-ID: 8086:24d5
    class-ID: 0401
  API: ALSA v: k5.10.240-antix.1-486-smp status: kernel-api with: apulse
    type: pulse-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: n/a (root, process) with:
    1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active
    3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl

$ sudo inxi -Nxxxx
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8169 PCI Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Micro-Star MSI Hetis
    865GV-E driver: r8169 v: kernel port: cc00 bus-ID: 01:0b.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8169 class-ID: 0200

andfree wrote:

I have already posted that I face this issue in a laptop with these

Hi @andfree Thanks, hadn’t read the whole thread, sorry.

Robin wrote:

I’ll try to replace the script by the most recent version from codeberg, and if this doesn’t fix things already I’ll file a bug report for this over there.

No need for a bug report. This is already fixed in latest inxi (master branch) at codeberg:

$ inxi --version
inxi 3.3.39-00 (2025-08-29)

@andfree , can you please confirm 3.3.39-00 works for you also? (It is enough to download the scriptfile from codeberg.org, and place it into the /usr/bin folder, making it executable (chmod/chown), after moving the original inxi script aside.)

@anticapitalista : So this package simply needs an package update in the antiX repos.

Here the full readout from 32 bit antiX 25a2, after live kernel update to 686:

$ sudo inxi -zv8 --za --zv
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.240-antix.1-686-smp-pae arch: i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc
    v: 14.2.0 clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm parameters: vga=791
    persist_all lang=de_DE tz=Europe/Berlin
    root=uuid=b04223f7-d60c-4dcb-9f8e-c3f06405aa52 quiet splasht disable=lxF
  Desktop: IceWM v: 3.9.0 tools: avail: slock,xlock dm: slimski v: 1.5.0
    Distro: antiX-25.a2-runit_386-full alpha2 14 August 2025 base: Debian
    GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: MICRO-STAR model: MS-7065 v: 100 serial: <filter>
    BIOS: American Megatrends v: 1.1 on 07.00T date: 10/22/04
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
  System RAM: total: 2 GiB available: 1.95 GiB used: 744.9 MiB (37.4%)
    igpu: 8 MiB
  Array-1: capacity: 4 GiB slots: 4 modules: 0 EC: None
    max-module-size: 1024 MiB
  Device-1: DIMM1 info: double-bank type: DIMM SDRAM detail: N/A
    size: 1024 MiB speed: N/A volts: N/A width: N/A manufacturer: N/A
    part-no: N/A serial: N/A
  Device-2: DIMM2 info: not installed type: N/A size: N/A speed: N/A
    volts: N/A width: N/A manufacturer: N/A part-no: N/A serial: N/A
  Device-3: DIMM3 info: double-bank type: DIMM SDRAM detail: N/A
    size: 1024 MiB speed: N/A volts: N/A width: N/A manufacturer: N/A
    part-no: N/A serial: N/A
  Device-4: ROW-3 info: not installed type: N/A size: N/A speed: N/A
    volts: N/A width: N/A manufacturer: N/A part-no: N/A serial: N/A
PCI Slots:
  Slot: 1 type: PCI status: available length: long volts: 3.3 bus-ID: N/A
  Slot: 2 type: PCI status: available length: long volts: 3.3 bus-ID: N/A
  Slot: 3 type: PCI status: unknown length: long volts: 3.3 bus-ID: N/A
  Slot: 4 type: PCI status: unknown length: long volts: 3.3 bus-ID: N/A
  Slot: 5 type: PCI status: unknown length: long volts: 3.3 bus-ID: N/A
  Slot: 4 type: PCI status: unknown length: long volts: 3.3 bus-ID: N/A
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Celeron socket: 478 (FC-478) note: check bits: 32
    arch: Netburst Prescott built: 2004-06 process: Intel 90nm family: 0xF (15)
    model-id: 4 stepping: 1 microcode: N/A
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 cores: 1 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 16 KiB
    desc: d-1x16 KiB L2: 256 KiB desc: 1x256 KiB
  Speed (MHz): 2812 min/max: N/A base/boost: 2800/4000 volts: 3.3 V
    ext-clock: 133 MHz core: 1: 2812 bogomips: 5624
  Flags: acpi apic bts cid clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cx8 de ds_cpl
    dtes64 dts fpu fxsr ht mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr pae pat pbe pebs pge
    pni pse pse36 pti sep ss sse sse2 tm tsc vme xtpr
  Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 82865G Integrated Graphics vendor: Micro-Star MSI Hetis
    865GV-E driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-2 process: Intel 130nm
    built: 2002-03 ports: active: VGA-1 empty: DVI-I-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:2572 class-ID: 0300
  Display: server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 driver: X: loaded: intel
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: swrast gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1152x864 s-dpi: 97 s-size: 303x227mm (11.93x8.94")
    s-diag: 379mm (14.91")
  Monitor-1: VGA-1 mapped: VGA1 model: Belinea/Maxdata 0x1b6c
    serial: <filter> built: 1998 res: mode: 1152x864 hz: 75 scale: 100% (1)
    dpi: 91 gamma: 1.83 chroma: red: x: 0.643 y: 0.329 green: x: 0.271
    y: 0.604 blue: x: 0.141 y: 0.063 white: x: 0.278 y: 0.310
    size: 320x240mm (12.6x9.45") diag: 400mm (15.7") ratio: 4:3
    modes: 1280x1024, 1152x864, 1024x768, 800x600, 640x480, 640x400
  API: EGL Message: Unreliable API tool+hardware. Override with --egl.
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 25.0.7-2 glx-v: 1.4 es-v: 3.2
    direct-render: yes renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7 128 bits)
    device-ID: ffffffff:ffffffff memory: 1.9 GiB unified: yes
  Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801EB/ER AC97 Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI Hetis 865GV-E
    driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.5 chip-ID: 8086:24d5
    class-ID: 0401
  API: ALSA v: k5.10.240-antix.1-686-smp-pae status: kernel-api with: apulse
    type: pulse-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: n/a (root, process) with:
    1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active
    3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8169 PCI Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Micro-Star MSI Hetis
    865GV-E driver: r8169 v: kernel port: cc00 bus-ID: 01:0b.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8169 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: secondary dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: temporary dynamic scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic mngtmpaddr noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: temporary dynamic scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic mngtmpaddr noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> scope: link
  Info: services: smbd,wpa_supplicant
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 58.59 GiB used: 17.56 GiB (30.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 model: N/A size: 58.59 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB rev: 2.1 spd: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
    mode: 2.0 tech: N/A serial: <filter> fw-rev: 3.00 scheme: MBR
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: MITSUMI model: CD-ROM !B rev: B04
    dev-links: cdrom
  Features: speed: 4 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: no rw: none
    state: running
Partition:
  ID-1: /live/boot-dev raw-size: 54.88 GiB size: 53.72 GiB (97.88%)
    used: 15.87 GiB (29.5%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda2
    maj-min: 8:2 label: <filter> uuid: <filter>
  ID-2: /media/KINGSTON raw-size: 3.7 GiB size: 3.7 GiB (99.89%)
    used: 1.69 GiB (45.8%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/sda1
    maj-min: 8:1 label: <filter> uuid: <filter>
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
    class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-1:2 info: USB Disk 20 type: mass storage driver: usb-storage
    interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 346d:5678 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 1-8:3 info: Carry Eng. 6-in-1 Card Reader type: mass storage
    driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s)
    lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 500mA chip-ID: 07cc:0301 class-ID: 0806
    serial: <filter>
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0001
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0001
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0001
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0001
    class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  Src: lm-sensors+/sys Message: No sensor data found using /sys/class/hwmon
    or lm-sensors.
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 1824 libs: 891 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,synaptic
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.sources
    1: deb http://repo.antixlinux.com/trixie/ trixie main  nonfree nosystemd 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources
    1: deb deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ trixie main contrib non-free non-free-firmware 
Processes:
  CPU top: 5 of 128
  1: cpu: 300% command: ps pid: 24250 mem: 2.76 MiB (0.1%)
  2: cpu: 5.1% command: Xorg pid: 3809 mem: 72.9 MiB (3.6%)
  3: cpu: 2.7% command: sudo pid: 24217 mem: 5.79 MiB (0.2%)
  4: cpu: 1.9% command: zzzfm pid: 3978 mem: 35.6 MiB (1.7%)
  5: cpu: 0.8% command: conky pid: 7660 mem: 6.78 MiB (0.3%)
  Memory top: 5 of 128
  1: mem: 72.9 MiB (3.6%) command: Xorg pid: 3809 cpu: 5.1%
  2: mem: 35.6 MiB (1.7%) command: zzzfm pid: 3978 cpu: 1.9%
  3: mem: 27.5 MiB (1.3%) command: roxterm pid: 11102 cpu: 0.3%
  4: mem: 22.9 MiB (1.1%) command: icewm pid: 3958 cpu: 0.7%
  5: mem: 20.6 MiB (1.0%) command: volumeicon pid: 4256 cpu: 0.0%
Info:
  Processes: 128 Power: uptime: 1h 14m states: freeze,standby,mem,disk
    suspend: s2idle avail: shallow wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform
    avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume image: 792.9 MiB Init: runit
    v: N/A runlevel: 2 tool: service
  Compilers: gcc: 14.2.0 Shell: Sudo (sudo) v: 1.9.16p2 default: Bash
    v: 5.2.37 running-in: roxterm inxi: 3.3.39

$ sudo ps_mem.py
 Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used	Program

 88.0 KiB +  26.5 KiB = 114.5 KiB	runit
112.0 KiB +  27.5 KiB = 139.5 KiB	runsvdir
128.0 KiB +  42.5 KiB = 170.5 KiB	seatd
244.0 KiB +  92.5 KiB = 336.5 KiB	dbus-launch
180.0 KiB + 227.5 KiB = 407.5 KiB	startup
344.0 KiB + 228.5 KiB = 572.5 KiB	udevil
284.0 KiB + 414.5 KiB = 698.5 KiB	icewm-session
476.0 KiB + 403.0 KiB = 879.0 KiB	getty (4)
476.0 KiB + 429.5 KiB = 905.5 KiB	dconf-service
564.0 KiB + 343.5 KiB = 907.5 KiB	desktop-session
576.0 KiB + 351.5 KiB = 927.5 KiB	devmon
732.0 KiB + 339.5 KiB =   1.0 MiB	runsv (11)
736.0 KiB + 347.5 KiB =   1.1 MiB	gconfd-2
748.0 KiB + 534.5 KiB =   1.3 MiB	at-spi-bus-launcher
816.0 KiB + 566.5 KiB =   1.4 MiB	at-spi2-registryd
908.0 KiB + 606.5 KiB =   1.5 MiB	dbus-daemon (3)
  1.4 MiB + 289.5 KiB =   1.7 MiB	udevd
  1.2 MiB + 699.5 KiB =   1.8 MiB	pipewire-pulse
  1.6 MiB + 394.5 KiB =   2.0 MiB	bash
  1.8 MiB + 673.5 KiB =   2.4 MiB	conky
924.0 KiB +   1.5 MiB =   2.4 MiB	sudo (2)
  2.6 MiB + 352.5 KiB =   2.9 MiB	wpa_supplicant
  2.5 MiB + 441.5 KiB =   2.9 MiB	nmbd
  2.6 MiB + 530.5 KiB =   3.1 MiB	connmand
  2.4 MiB +   1.4 MiB =   3.8 MiB	slimski
  1.9 MiB +   2.1 MiB =   4.0 MiB	fbxkb
  2.9 MiB +   1.4 MiB =   4.3 MiB	dhcpcd (5)
  3.7 MiB +   1.2 MiB =   4.8 MiB	pipewire
  2.3 MiB +   3.6 MiB =   6.0 MiB	volumeicon
  6.7 MiB +   1.6 MiB =   8.3 MiB	wireplumber
  6.0 MiB +   4.1 MiB =  10.1 MiB	icewm
  6.4 MiB +   4.4 MiB =  10.8 MiB	smbd (3)
  5.4 MiB +   5.7 MiB =  11.0 MiB	roxterm
 13.8 MiB +   5.9 MiB =  19.7 MiB	zzzfm
 60.4 MiB +   3.3 MiB =  63.6 MiB	Xorg
---------------------------------
                        177.8 MiB
=================================

(please note, this is not the ps_mem.py readout from vanilla, there is already a samba server running.)

The boot issue with the default antiX USB stick is still under investigation. Will come up with results once I’ve completed analysis. Meanwhile I made it boot already with linuxfs file moved to the huge ext4 data partition, so no longer limited to the 4GiB restriction causing difficult remaster and kernel update: (Only allowed me xz compression due to file size, which took ~3 hours to complete, unattended, for sure.) Simply adding “root=UUID=….” to the APPEND line in syslinux.cfg did the trick, pointing to the ext4 partition. Before that, in a first step, I had experimented with “puuid=….”, so the root and home persistence could be moved to the ext4 partition, allowing the initial xz compressed remaster finally, needed for a live kernel update to the 686 kernel.

25.a2 looks good so far.

Met a tiny translation and syntax (“%s”) issue in the Live Remaster tool, rarely seen error message. See screenshot. Some more strings in this tool are still untranslated in antiX 25.a2. Needs detailed inspection.

What else works and has been tested meanwhile here?

Shared Folders from antiX Control Centre do work fine still in trixie based antiX 25.a2. Helper tools install flawlessly, account(s) are set up as expected per user request. Allows speedy connection setup to e.g an antiX 23.1 machine.

• This reply was modified 11 months, 1 week ago by Robin. Reason: fixed typo: 25.a1 → 25.a2