[Solved] TinyCore Linux not detecting my HDD after install and reboot

[nassausky]

Hi once again,

I booted up tc 5.02 from CD and downloaded and ran tc-install.  All looked fine and I opted for the frugal full hdd install on sda1.    I chose boot options home=sda1 opt=sda1  as my only boot options and it didn't give any errors and finished.  I then rebooted without the CD in the caddy and now it says Missing Operating System.

Now I boot from that same CD and it detects SR0 but there is no sata drive listed in the mount gui.

Update:
fdisk -l shows /dev/sda1  id 83 system linux

tried sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
gives me: "Mounting /dev/sda1 on /mnt/sda1 failed: Invalid argument"

an old post noted using mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1  but I didn't want to overwrite the existing data (if it even wrote it correctly during the install) 

Where do you think I should proceed from here?

Thanks again

[gerald_clark]

It is detecting your HDD.

fdisk -l shows /dev/sda1  id 83 system linux

It sounds like it was not formated.
Redo the install and have it format your drive.

[nassausky]

Jackpot.   There is a possibility I didn't choose whole disk during the install and I am guessing that is the option that reformats the disk.

[tinypoodle]

What's the output of 'blkid' ?