Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Base => CorePlus => Topic started by: penguin on September 14, 2013, 10:15:14 AM
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Hi all,
I did a frugal install with the Coreplus 4.7 ISO on a cd, when I booted the cd everything seemed to be OK, X worked, etc. I installed, I am triple booting so I manually configured grub which could possibly be my error, I don't know if I needed to add something to grub.conf that I didn't. Anyhow, the point is, grub boots TCL but all I get is a command line. The commands line startx and xvesa are not available. I tried to install X with the tce command and it can find the package and says to press i to install, I press i and it shows me the same message again. Pressing a does make it show the about info again, and q does work to make it quit.
Here's the entry I put in grub.conf:
title tcl
root(hd0,3) #I know this works since it does start tcl
kernel /tce/boot/vmlinuz tce=hda4
initrd /tce/boot/core.gz
I later installed 5.0 and the same thing happens.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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There shouldn't be any hda drives around. Check your drive name (and preferably use a label or uuid instead of hardcoding the position).
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It's an IDE drive, and does boot, wouldn't it not boot if this were wrong?
I was mostly copying entries from Fedora which had automatically put entries with hd(0,n). Just to clarify, I am using grub from fedora if that makes any difference.
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grub uses the format (hdx,y), but tinycore will use sda4 rather than hda4
i.e. root(hd0,3) #I know this works since it does start tcl
kernel /tce/boot/vmlinuz tce=sda4
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Wow, changed one letter and it works now!
Thank you very much!
In case anyone else has this sort of problem, here is what you should put in grub.conf:
(of course you will have to change the paths to core.gz and initrd if you installed in a directory or anyplace odd)
title the_title_you_want
root(hd0,123) #replace 123 with what it should be - first partition should be 0, second 1, etc
kernel /tce/boot/vmlinuz tce=hda4
initrd /tce/boot/core.gz