CorePlus on USB drive works on Laptop but not Atom media PC

[placrosse]

I've used core2usb to install the CorePlus iso onto a USB flash drive.

This flash drive boots fine onto my HP Pavilion laptop, going to whatever GUI mode is selected off the boot menu.

Using the same flash drive, on an Intel Atom-based small PC (Fit-PC2), none of the boot selections ever bring up the GUI.

It always boots straight to a prompt.

What should I check to correct the situation?

[curaga]

First see if the usb stick was found - what does /etc/sysconfig/tcedir point to.

[placrosse]

ls -la of that dir shows /tmp/tce

That dir contains an optional sub-dir, which is empty.

[Rich]

Hi placrosse
That sounds like the USB stick was not found. It should have said something like  /mnt/sda1
Enter  fdisk -l  and see if the USB stick shows up in the list, you should be able to spot it based on its size.
If its not there, try unplugging and replugging the device, wait ten seconds, and run  fdisk -l  again.
Note which  sd  value is listed where it says  /dev/
Enter  mount /mnt/sdXX  where  sdXX  is the value you observed in the previous step.
Then  cd /mnt/sdXX , you are looking for a directory called syslinux, it might be under boot/. In that directory there
should be a  .cnf  or  .conf  file. Open the file, find where it says  waitusb=  and change the number after the = sign
to a larger value, that's the number of seconds it waits for the device to show up. Save the file and see if it boots now.

[placrosse]

The directory turned out to be syslinux, but the advice worked.

Thanks.

[Rich]

Hi placrosse
You are welcome. Thanks for the feedback, I will correct my previous post to indicate it is  syslinux.