booting Tinycore won't use "onboot.lst"

[meka]

For some reason my TinyCore 4.7.1 installation won't load anything specified in "onboot.lst".

The "extlinux.conf" contains: "opt=sda1 home=sda1 restore=sda1/tce lst=onboot.lst"

I had to add "restore=sda1/tce" because otherwise it wouldn't extract my "mydata.tgz" as well, I tried to add multiple similar prefixes to the boot code but without success (for example lst=sda1/tce/onboot.lst). From where is TinyCore trying to load my onboot.lst from or may I have accidentally disabled it?

Thank you!

[gerald_clark]

Is this a USB drive? If so you forgot the waitusb=5 boot code.
You don't need restore= or lst= bootcodes.

[meka]

No it is not an USB device but an internal SSD. But it contains the waitusb=5 part... although it might not need it.

Thanks!

[gerald_clark]

So, is it working now?
If not, show us the output of "showbootcodes" and "fdisk -l".

[meka]

No. Not working.

showbootcodes:

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initrd=/tce/boot/core.gz quiet text waitusb=5:UUID="31352b24-b978-4474-b965-32b2f0805b13" tce=UUID="31352b24-b978-4474-b965-32b2f0805b13" opt=sda1 home=sda1 restore=sda1/tce lst=onboot.lst BOOT_IMAGE=/tce/boot/vmlinuz
And I tried lst=tce/onboot.lst or lst=sda1/tce/onboot.lst ...without any difference.

fisk -l:

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Disk /dev/sda: 32.0 GB, 32044482560 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3895 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sda1   *           1        3895    31286556  83 Linux


[gerald_clark]

Get rid of the restore= and lst= boot options.
Show the output of "blkid /dev/sda*".
Show the output of "ls -l /etc/sysconfig/tcedir".
Show the output of "cat /etc/sysconfig/tcedir/onboot.lst".
Show the output of "ls /usr/local/tce.installed".

[meka]

Without the restore= it wouldn't extract the "mydata.tar.gz" ... I put it there to get it working. And also the lst part... it didn't work without it so I tried adding it.

Just a second on the other outputs...

[meka]

Ok... a number of problems:

• the UUID is different
• the /etc/sysconfig/tcedir is a dead symlink to /tce
• therefor the cat command doesn't execute cause the symlink is dead
• nothin

[meka]

Thank you! After changing the UUID at tce the system boots up as expected!

I also removed the waitusb restore and lst part.

Is it possible to change the tce UUID string at extlinux.conf from console to the UUID of a particular device? Possible after restore a backup to a new disk?

[bmarkus]

Is it possible to change the tce UUID string at extlinux.conf from console to the UUID of a particular device? Possible after restore a backup to a new disk?

You do not need UUID at all in a properly configured system. You can forget it.

[curaga]

I recommend you use labels instead of uuids if you need to restore to newly formatted partitions.