Operating System Not Found

[Sina]

Hello,

After having ubuntu in my computer for a while, I decided to try other linux distributions. In one of my old notebooks I am trying to install tcl which had ubuntu in it. I had my sda divided into three sda1, sda2, sda3, sda1 I believe had some recovery files related to windows, not the operating system though. sda2 had ubuntu. I tried to install tcl on sda3 following the guidelines (frugal install) and after that I could not boot into neither ubuntu or tcl. It would just try to boot windows and fail since it was uninstalled. So I said I might as well just format the whole sda and try installing tcl on the whole. Which I did. After that when I boot the computer I get the operating system not found. Moreover when I try to reinstall tcl the disk sda is no longer visible as a viable option to install the system. When I do fdisk -l it is visible as a disk with start 1 end 60801 linux system. In the bios the boot priority is on HDD. I wonder if I messed up something :p

I would like to post the output but I could not figure out how to copy paste from tcl  terminal My internet is really slow atm so I cant download a paint application to put a ss as well but if there is no copy pasting I will do that eventually.

Any help is much appreciated, thanks.

[curaga]

The reason it's no longer visible is that it's mounted - the live TC session used your disk tce directory. You can avoid this with the "base" bootcode, or by unmounting it before running the installer.

However, your boot trouble sounds like extlinux is incompatible with your bios. In that case you need to use another bootloader, for example grub:
http://tinycorelinux.net/install_manual.html

[Misalf]

To copy&paste from the terminal, just select some text with your mouse and press middle mouse button (or left+right) to paste it, while the text to be copied is still selected.

Also some apps support this style of copy&paste via keyboard:
copy:  CTRL  + INS
move:  SHIFT + DEL
paste: SHIFT + INS

[Sina]

The reason it's no longer visible is that it's mounted - the live TC session used your disk tce directory. You can avoid this with the "base" bootcode, or by unmounting it before running the installer.

However, your boot trouble sounds like extlinux is incompatible with your bios. In that case you need to use another bootloader, for example grub:
http://tinycorelinux.net/install_manual.html

Thanks for the reply. I think the problem is more then being mounted because I guessed that and went to the mount tool in tcl to unmount but there only sdb appears. It should appear there as a text in red colored box if it is only mounted right? Regardless I will try the suggestion that you told me.

[Sina]

Thanks Misalf now I can copy paste Here is an output of fdisk
tc@box:~$ fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sda1   *           1       60801   488384001  83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 7743 MB, 7743995904 bytes
80 heads, 16 sectors/track, 11816 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1280 * 512 = 655360 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sdc1   *           7       11817     7558464   c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)

[Rich]

Hi Sina

It should appear there as a text in red colored box if it is only mounted right?

No, green means it's mounted, red means it's not mounted.

[Sina]

And it doesnt appear there at all means?

[curaga]

It'd mean it's not mountable, for some reason.