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Offline linuxmom

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I installed Tiny Core but says file is missing what is the problem
« on: September 20, 2010, 10:34:15 AM »
I installed tiny core under my linux mint install an d installed from boot directory I renamed iso linux to sys linux and set up boot codes, it is still refusing to boot saying a file is missing.  What is wrong?  I am a programmer.  It seems all the files are there.

Offline gerald_clark

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Re: I installed Tiny Core but says file is missing what is the problem
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2010, 12:05:33 PM »
It is not clear what you have done, as there is no file named "iso linux" , nor "sys linux".

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Re: I installed Tiny Core but says file is missing what is the problem
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2010, 12:50:16 PM »
Also, a more accurate wording of the error output might help.
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Re: I installed Tiny Core but says file is missing what is the problem
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2010, 01:47:21 PM »
I'm assuming you are using grub2 and have placed tinycore_3.1.iso in /boot

Add the following lines to /etc/grub.d/40_custom as root user:

menuentry "Tinycore ISO" {
    set isofile="/boot/tinycore_3.1.iso"
    loopback loop $isofile
    linux (loop)/boot/bzImage
    initrd (loop)/boot/tinycore.gz
}

Then run update-grub as root user and check that /boot/grub/grub.cfg contains the above entry and reboot.

An alternative would be to download the bzImage and tinycore.gz files directly from here and change the menu entry to this:

menuentry "Tinycore 3.1" {
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /boot/bzImage quiet
initrd /boot/tinycore.gz
}

Note: change hd0,1 to the partition which contains your boot directory
« Last Edit: September 20, 2010, 01:51:09 PM by combo3 »