LiveGUI USB Image has no GUI only console

Decibels · Veteran Joined: 16 Aug 2002 Posts: 1629 Location: U.S.A.

Have an older LiveDVD from 2017, but one of my computers has no CD drive. So thought I would update to a LiveUSB.
Use the 'LiveGUI USB' from the Gentoo download page. First I thought got a corrupted download, but have tried it twice.
1) used dd command from a Gentoo wiki: dd if=/home/decibels/Downloads/livegui-amd64-20240912T232043Z.iso of=/dev/sdf bs=8192k status=progress; sync
2) used balanaEther
3) used the KDE ISO Image Writer

Same results each time. Boots up to a console only.
I don't remember having to do anything like make a partition bootable,... before with an iso. Used to have KNOPPIX on this drive and now I'm sorry over wrote it with this.

Some info:
1) The partition table looks a little weird to me, but it has done this each time. So probably correct.

ali3nx · Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2024 1:19 pm Post subject:

I encountered this with the current liveusb iso dated 20240912T232043Z

out of tree kernel modules such as perhaps at least zfs were seemingly also missing on two older however similar liveusb iso's i tested released in september 2024.

It's fantastic the liveusb are included in the autobuild releases however occasionally with generated builds new major development changes will toss a spanner into the works. I like to believe more often than not the liveusb being updated has been an improvement over the previously abandoned old gentoo livedvd the liveusb replaced.

While testing one of the currently available liveusb iso's plasma did autostart using both an nvidia 1070 and 5500xt amdgpu graphics devices. Test an older iso if you encounter some unexpected bloopers

https://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/
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Decibels · Veteran Joined: 16 Aug 2002 Posts: 1629 Location: U.S.A.

Thanks a lot for the reply. Thought I was missing something and couldn't find any info online.

I am going to try: livegui-amd64-20240830T150404Z.iso

Thanks again.
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Decibels · Veteran Joined: 16 Aug 2002 Posts: 1629 Location: U.S.A.

So that one didn't work either. I wonder how many of the iso's are bad? And who to tell?

I did jump back to the last one: livegui-amd64-20240818T143401Z.iso
and that one WORKS!

So use that one if you want it to boot up with GUI !

Thanks ali3nx!
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Decibels · Veteran Joined: 16 Aug 2002 Posts: 1629 Location: U.S.A.

There is a bug report. It's being looked into.
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