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Offline msalvatori

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[SOLVED] TinyCore can't make more than one partition persistent
« on: October 05, 2017, 05:57:09 AM »
Hi, I have a VM running the TCL, with 2 Virtual Disks (sda and sdb.

When I install TCL on sdb with tc-install-GUI:

1- I take the core.gz form sda
2 - Choose ext4 in Formating Options
3 - In "Boot Options Reference List" I define "home=/dev/sda1 opt=/dev/sda2"
4 - In the extension Installation I pick the tce directory from sda1

Doesn't matter if I put a different directory on sda2, it never makes it persistent, and after installation I can see it.

I don't understand why.
« Last Edit: October 09, 2017, 09:43:24 AM by Rich »

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Re: TinyCore can't make more than one partition persistent
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2017, 06:21:15 AM »
Try opt=sda2

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Re: TinyCore can't make more than one partition persistent
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2017, 06:38:55 AM »
Try opt=sda2

Still nothing.

It always return the same error "Invalid device specified. Skipping persistent OPT request!"

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Re: TinyCore can't make more than one partition persistent
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2017, 06:50:25 AM »
Show the output of "blkid".

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Re: TinyCore can't make more than one partition persistent
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2017, 07:16:12 AM »
Show the output of "blkid".

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$ blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="61fc908e-f2b0-4ef0-947d-c15c6cf23700" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop1: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop2: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop3: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop4: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop5: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop6: TYPE="squashfs"
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/dev/loop102: TYPE="squashfs"
« Last Edit: October 05, 2017, 08:56:54 AM by Juanito »

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Re: TinyCore can't make more than one partition persistent
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2017, 07:17:28 AM »
Seems like sda2 wasn't mounted. is there a way to make it mount during the installation proccess?

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Re: TinyCore can't make more than one partition persistent
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2017, 10:42:36 AM »
Was it formatted? The installer will only format the install partition.
The only barriers that can stop you are the ones you create yourself.

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Re: TinyCore can't make more than one partition persistent
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2017, 10:59:15 AM »
Was it formatted? The installer will only format the install partition.

Yes. Evertime I install, partitions are formatted.

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Re: TinyCore can't make more than one partition persistent
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2017, 07:46:40 PM »
Was it formatted? The installer will only format the install partition.

Yes. Evertime I install, partitions are formatted.

How about the output of "fdisk -l".
Did you format the partitions manually ?

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Re: TinyCore can't make more than one partition persistent
« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2017, 05:02:28 AM »
How about the output of "fdisk -l".
Did you format the partitions manually ?

De disk was formatted by the tc-install wizard

Output of fdisk -l, just showed what was previously thought. The second partition was not created.

Disk /dev/sda: 17.1 GB, 17179869184 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 16384 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sda1   *           1       16384    16777200  83 Linux

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Re: TinyCore can't make more than one partition persistent
« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2017, 07:49:16 AM »
I believe the options you picked are [frugal] [Whole Disk].

That would wipe out the entire disk.

You should use [frugal] [Partition] instead if you wanna partition the disk yourself.

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Re: TinyCore can't make more than one partition persistent
« Reply #11 on: October 06, 2017, 08:05:41 AM »
I believe the options you picked are [frugal] [Whole Disk].

That would wipe out the entire disk.

You should use [frugal] [Partition] instead if you wanna partition the disk yourself.

I was marking [USB-HDD], which prevents me from choosing [existing-partition].

I tried to pick [frugal][existing-partition] but there was no difference.

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Re: TinyCore can't make more than one partition persistent
« Reply #12 on: October 09, 2017, 09:01:46 AM »
« Last Edit: October 09, 2017, 09:29:43 AM by msalvatori »

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Re: TinyCore can't make more than one partition persistent
« Reply #13 on: October 09, 2017, 09:31:43 AM »
Can't edit the title of the post to put [SOLVED]

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Re: [SOLVED] TinyCore can't make more than one partition persistent
« Reply #14 on: October 09, 2017, 09:43:57 AM »
Hi msalvatori
Can't edit the title of the post to put [SOLVED]
Done.