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Offline T-one

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Failed in waitforx
« on: August 05, 2018, 09:45:10 PM »
I have been playing around for a few weeks and tried a frugal install of tinycore to hard drive on a test laptop. I have used the CorePlus iso to boot. during the boot process, I get the above error.
I found these to threads relating to the problem:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,21596.msg135127.html#msg135127

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,21047.0.html


Neither lead to a solution.

I tried the USB stick on an other laptop and it boots and works just fine.
I tried all menu options on both laptops. All work on the test laptop. On the second laptop, the first 7 menu entries all produce the waitforX error.
From the coreplus menu, I selected boot core with X/Gui (TinyCore) + Installation Extension.
I performed a frI have been playing around for a few weeks and tried a frugal install of tinycore to hard drive on a test laptop. I have used the CorePlus iso to boot. during the boot process, I get the above error.
I found these to threads relating to the problem:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,21596.msg135127.html#msg135127

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,21047.0.html


Neither lead to a solution.

I tried the USB stick on an other laptop and it boots and works just fine.
I tried all menu options on both laptops. All work on the test laptop. On the second laptop, the first 7 menu entries all produce the waitforX error.
From the coreplus menu, I selected boot core with X/Gui (TinyCore) + Installation Extension.
I performed a frugal install from the web to the hard drive and ended up with a boot-able console version.
Any suggestions on how to fix this error.

What  type of log files are generated and how can I find them?

I tried to install extensions from the command line but can't find them lateron or they do not work. I struggle with the busybox commands. Quite a few either work not at all or sork different than what I'm used to. Is there a tutorial for the commands implemented in TinyCore? (I found some relating to Ubuntu and others, but each seems to refer to customized versions of busybox)
Regards,
ugal install from the web to the hard drive and ended up with a boot-able console version.
Any suggestions on how to fix this error.

What  type of log files are generated and how can I find them?

I tried to install extensions from the command line but can't find them lateron or they do not work. I struggle with the busybox commands. Quite a few either work not at all or sork different than what I'm used to. Is there a tutorial for the commands implemented in TinyCore? (I found some relating to Ubuntu and others, but each seems to refer to customized versions of busybox)
Regards,


Offline polikuo

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Re: Failed in waitforx
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2018, 11:26:07 PM »
Does the default X server (Xvesa) works on your machine in CD mode ?

I tried the USB stick on an other laptop and it boots and works just fine.
I tried all menu options on both laptops. All work on the test laptop. On the second laptop, the first 7 menu entries all produce the waitforX error.

Sounds like a yes for the test laptop, but a no the second one.

If Xvesa doesn't work for you, remove Xvesa from your onboot.lst and pick one of the other X servers.

Code: [Select]
tce-load -wi Xfbdev
tce-load -wi Xorg-7.7

IIRC, the "net-mode" tc-install.sh script only installs the base system (vmlinuz + core.gz)

Offline T-one

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Re: Failed in waitforx
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2018, 08:11:22 PM »
Thanks for your reply.
I played around with bootcodes. Added xsetup and laptop. This works for all desktops and all resolution.

I  installed to hard drive from USB. All worked.

Thanks