Can't start Mocaccino KDE ISO

[SergioTar]

I'm pretty good at Linux and would like to try and install something from Gentoo, but install something that is more or less ready to use and not so heavy for the first installation. Came across Sabagnon, but this is MocaccinoOS. I tried to launch flash drives with Mocaccino Micro, but it didn't go beyond the black screen with "boot:" on it.
I tried to run Sabanyon - it starts, without problems, but everything is outdated and is not supported.
I wanted exactly Mocaccino Micro because there is a runit init system, and when convert a Sabayon system, the initialization system remains systemd.
What am I doing wrong?
Or is it better to just wait until a stable version comes out?

[mudler]

@SergioTar Mocaccino Micro isn't based on Gentoo. It's a Musl LFS variant, and there is no plan to provide migration from Sabayon to Mocaccino Micro.

We didn't ship any stable release yet.

On the other hand Mocaccino Micro is bootable here in VMs and baremetals, so I would like to hear a bit more about your system setup, and the steps you are doing to boot up MocaccinoMicro!

[SergioTar]

@mudler I apologize for the little misunderstanding - it was my mistake. I thought I downloaded and tried to install Mocaccino Micro, but in fact it was MocaccinoOS KDE.
Today I downloaded again (already a fresh version) of the same MocaccinoOS KDE, tried to start from a flash drive and the result is identical - during the startup process a message appears: "device sda ​​... device sdb ... the system does not have an overlay ..." (something in this sense).
In connection with this and your explanation(any stable release yet), I have a couple of questions:

• if I install Sabayon (this ISO runs from a flash drive without problems) and then, following your instructions on the site, I convert a Sabayon system (running Entropy) to Mocaccino OS (running luet) - will it be a full-fledged MocaccinoOS?
• if yes, will it be supported (change name?) or will I still have to do a "clean installation"?
  Why is this important for me - because I allocated space (logical drive) on one HDD(I do not use a VM) and I would not want to install and re-install the system once again.

And I still want to try something based on Gentoo and as I understood MocaccinoOS KDE is just such an option. In any case, I really hope so.
Correct me if I'm wrong.

[geaaru]

@SergioTar please, can you try with MocaccinoOS Gnome ISO, we currently trying to stabilize Mate and Gnome.
In addition, can you use etcher to flash USB? It's a good tool to check the written cell.
Please, add some more information about hardware, RAM, etc.
Thanks

[SergioTar]

@geaaru I'll try tomorrow. And I'll let you know the results.

[SergioTar]

@geaaru Today I burned and ran the MocaccinoOS Gnome ISO from a USB stick (on a PC) as you requested.
Everything started up and works without any visible problems, for now. And I, right now, using this OS in live mode.
I wrote it down to a USB flash drive using the command = dd =.
But the version with MATE ISO, which I wrote down yesterday, did not start on the laptop. But that was yesterday's version.
Now I will look at the option with KDE, as I wanted.
Hope it starts too.

[mudler]

@SergioTar KDE is still in the works

[SergioTar]

@mudler It's okay. I'm not hurrying.

[msdobrescu]

Hi, I really need a KDE system. If you have a large thumb drive, I find useful ventoy, where you can copy several ISOs and chose from them at boot time. It's brilliant, you can have one device with several OSes and rescue/partition live systems.
Also, my migration will be by doing a partition backup first, using dd or clonezilla and migrate and revert to my image in case of failure, until I get it in the right shape. I advice you to do that too.

[SergioTar]

msdobrescu Thanks for the tip, but I've been using ventoy for a very long time. And in the case of Mocaccino, I tried ventoy too, but only the = dd = option turned out to be successful ... in my case. This may be due to my computers - they are not very "fresh" and with the ancient BIOS.

[msdobrescu]

@SergioTar , strange, worked for me, I have a i7 920 system and a 7-years old i7-3630QM notebook.

[SergioTar]

@msdobrescu And my both are already 14 but still good -:)

[msdobrescu]

MocaccinoOS-GNOME-0.20210103.iso works for me, but MocaccinoOS-GNOME-0.20210104.iso is kind of empty (86 MB??)...

[geaaru]

@msdobrescu try between some hours. I added a broken dep that had broken iso building process. It's already fixed but we need to wait for github task. Btw, in these days i begin to review the layers, could be possible that this will happens again until i cleaned layers stuff.

[msdobrescu]

@geaaru, no worries, it's just a confirmation. I was curious if Gnome starts, and it works wonderfully. I wait for the KDE iso now.