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Offline Vind

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stuck in mid boot
« on: September 01, 2012, 04:08:38 PM »
Hi
to start, i am non English and very new to linux, so very sorry if this doesn't make any sense.

I am trying to live boot from a usb drive on a HP Compaq t5520 Thin Client
Processor:    VIA 800 MHz
Flash:            64 MB
Memory:           128 MB DDR SDRAM
Graphics:           VIA S3 graphics with support for high-resolution monitors up to 1280 x 1024
(NOTE: 16 MB of system RAM is reserved for video graphics usage)
The terminal doesn't have a hard drive, just ram

I have today downloaded the "CorePlus-Current.iso" and used "Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.0.9" to install it on a 4gb flash drive.

It boots fine to the boot options, but CorePlus and the TinyCore (boath GUI and non-GUI) stops after it has whiten:
"
Booting Core 4.6
Running Linux Kernel 3.0.21-tinycore.
Checking boot options...Done.
Starting udev daemon for hotspot support...Done.
Scanning  hard disk partitions to create /etc/fstab
Setting Languae to C Done.
"
Then there is just a white marker, that echo's the buttons i pres.
i have left it alone for about 10 min, nothing happens.
this is also when i use the mode for slow usb drives.

i have tried using the boot options f.eks. the vga= and set lang= but nothing helps.

i hope you can help me, or end my suffering and tell me it ill never work.
/Vind
 

Online Rich

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Re: stuck in mid boot
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2012, 09:13:03 PM »
Hi Vind
I would like to suggest you try using  core2usb  found here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/core2usb
It was written specifically for installing Tinycore to a usb stick from a Windows environment.

Offline curaga

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Re: stuck in mid boot
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2012, 05:13:40 AM »
In addition to using a supported installer like Rich said, please try with the bootcode "debug", what messages do you see. You can add bootcodes by pressing tab at the boot options menu.
The only barriers that can stop you are the ones you create yourself.