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Curious#A62A2A:
A couple of years ago I built a lite setup with diskless thin clients running TC and I fell in love.
Now I've gotten my hands on a Lenovo Miix 2 10 (Intel Atom Z3740D Baytrail ) and has been faffing around with a few distros, none has been awesome stability wise.
Now I'm back with my beloved TC and am running in to a few problems.
I'm running CorePlus from USB btw.

1. TC doesn't seem to detect the eMMC that serves as a harddrive in the miix
2. I can't seem to detect sd cards put into the reader
3. I can't get a GUI to actually start, it just hangs. All I get i the underscore marker from the console in the top left corner and a black screen.
4. Wifi. Fedora detects it and the driver seems to be brcmfmac
5. Pretty much all the non important stuff like cameras, hardware buttons and sound.

What works is that I can start in textmode and get the proper native resolution by default (1920x1200x32) by default.

What I need some help with really where to start, I can't seem to invoke the right stuff to get any log output and would appreciate a few pointers.

Edit: I tried CorePlus-current first and now I'm playing with the 6.0 Beta
Edit #2: Seems I misplaced this post, could I have some help with moving it to the proper category?

Misalf:
Maybe that's caused by the way you installed TC to your USB device.
If in console and you enter  ce , to which directory does it change to?

Curious#A62A2A:
ce points me to the directory /mnt/sda3/tce which is correct but thanks for the heads up. It made me rethink a few things and I've managed to fiddle in Xorg 7.7 and now I'm at least getting a GUI.
The grub2-efi package can't for some reason boot TC on this machine, I just get "booting blind" and it hangs. Luckily I had a leftover grub2 from an earlier Fedora install on the drive already so I hacked together some conf and got it booted that way.
If people don't mind I'll keep this thread for reporting what I did to get things working on a baytrail tablet. Might be helpful for others since the market is saturated with inexpensive baytrail stuff.

Next step is Wifi, then I'm going for getting the touchscreen to wake up.

Misalf:

--- Quote ---If people don't mind I'll keep this thread for reporting what I did to get things working on a baytrail tablet.

--- End quote ---
I doubt anyone would mind. (:

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I have very little experience with UEFI and I hope I don't lead you to unnecessary steps. However, it seems to me that Barry Kauler (the puppy linux guy) have had a similar 'blind boot' annoyance with a Win8 machine but has, at least partially, fixed it:
http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00095
http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00099
http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00108
http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00109

Juanito:
If by "blind boot' you mean that the boot proceeds without anything appearing on the screen until the boot successfully completes, you can fix this by issuing a couple of grub2-efi graphics commands.

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