TinyCore not detecting my Hard Drive

[lberezinski]

I'm fairly new to Linux and i'm trying to install tiny-core on my webdt 366.
but it seems not to detect the webdt internal flash drive.

i was able to boot with gparted live CD and see & format my disk my disk.
i was also able to boot with Ubuntu and see my disk.

any ideas?

[AbNoRMiS]

from which media tinycore is booted?
possible need add waitusb bootcode?

[lberezinski]

I'm booting from a USB cd-rom (CorePlus-4.4.iso)

so just to clarify

i have a webdt 366 (with one USB port)
a USB keyboard with two USB ports is connected to the webdt USB port
a USB mouse is connected to the first USB port on the keyboard
a USB cd-rom (booting device) is connected o the second USB port on the keyboard

i have tried the waitusb option but i still could not see my drive

when i use gparted it is mounted as hda1 and when i used Ubuntu it is mounted as sda1

[gutmensch]

It's possible the built-in Flash ROM NAND chip is not initially supported, from some info in the web I found out that it might be a classic Geode Companion chip, possibly supported by the kernel options

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CONFIG_MTD_NAND_CS553X

which we only include as a module, but I'm not sure it's present. Maybe curaga can help out here...

Source: http://webdt.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=100

[AbNoRMiS]

if it's so i think that need download mtd-3.0.21-tinycore.tcz
and load module cs553x_nand

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tce-load -wil mtd-3.0.21-tinycore.tcz
modprobe cs553x_nandit is right?

[gutmensch]

absolutely right, nice find... I didn't remember the mtd extension :-o
but however, a remaster would be needed to run at boot time, because of the chicken egg... loading an extension for the drive from which you're loading the extension for the... ;-)

[curaga]

I'm not sure whether it's accessed via MTD or IDE. Check your dmesg from either gparted or ubuntu.

If via IDE, it's possible it has the cs5535 chip, which is still experimental in libata and thus disabled in our build.

[nekys]

I have same problem, I tried:
tce-load -wil mtd-3.0.21-tinycore.tcz
modprobe cs553x_nand
and I get this:
modprobe: can't load module cs553x_nand (kernel. tclocal/ drivers/ mtd/ nand/ cs553x_nand. ko. gz): No such device or address

Where I think I have to do something with depmod...

[nekys]

I found that mtd from repository has path for the modules as /usr/local/lib/modules and not /lib/modules. I moved the modules inside /lib/modules and still doesn't work.

[Juanito]

I found that mtd from repository has path for the modules as /usr/local/lib/modules and not /lib/modules

/usr/local/lib/modules is the standard tinycore location for modules in an extension

Where I think I have to do something with depmod

tce-load performs this automatically

Perhaps the module is not recognising your hardware, does "modinfo cs553x_nand" show any optional parameters you could pass?

[Rich]

modinfo shows:

filename:       kernel.tclocal/drivers/mtd/nand/cs553x_nand.ko.gz
description:    NAND controller driver for AMD CS5535/CS5536 companion chip
author:         David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
license:        GPL
vermagic:       3.0.3-tinycore SMP mod_unload 486
depends:        mtd,nand,nand_ecc

[Juanito]

There's a problem if modinfo shows "3.0.3-tinycore SMP mod_unload 486" and the extension is named "mtd-3.0.21-tinycore.tcz"...

[curaga]

The error " No such device or address" is clear, the module loaded successfully but you have no such hardware. Or the module does not support your hw.

[Rich]

Hi Juanito
My apologies, I should have stated that I performed that command under TC4.1 (3.0.3).

[nekys]

The error " No such device or address" is clear, the module loaded successfully but you have no such hardware. Or the module does not support your hw.

For sure I have that hardware since I opened my device and this is what the chip writes on it.