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Smasher:
Hi everybody,

the name of the topic may confuse you but I think I am posting in the right forum. I am trying to diagnose my Seagate disk drive using SeaTools Bootable. Booting into it gave me a bare Linux console while a GUI was promised. That was my starting point for investigations, which lead me to learn about Tiny Core Linux. I figured out SeaTools Bootable is actually just a bootable Tiny Core Linux with some extensions. But something seems to be misconfigured...

Let's look together at their sysconfig.cfg. The most interesting part is the following:


--- Code: ---waitusb=5:LABEL=SEABOOT tce=LABEL=SEABOOT mydata=mydata_STB lst=onboot_STB_Xorg.lst
--- End code ---

After reading FAQ I understood that the loader should wait for a USB-device labeled SEABOOT and it is defined to contain Tiny Core Extensions. I am not sure what parameter mydata does, but lst seems to define the list of extensions to install.

P.s. I am also hanging around on IRC if anyone wants to chat me

Anyway from what I can tell: mydata_STB doesn't get unpacked after boot and onboot_STB_Xorg.lst isn't installed. My pendrive is labeled correctly as SEABOOT, the folder structure looks correct to me as well (shortened):


--- Code: ---/f
├── boot
│   └── syslinux
│       ├── syslinux.cfg
│       └── ...
└── tce
    ├── mydata_STB.tgz
    ├── onboot_STB_Xorg.lst
    └── optional
        ├── acl.tcz
        ├── acl.tcz.dep
        ├── acl.tcz.md5.txt
        ├── asian-fonts.tcz
        ├── aterm.tcz
        ├── aterm.tcz.md5.txt
        ├── ... 485 files here

--- End code ---

And I still can't quite figure it out why it doesn't work. Maybe some of the experienced eyes on this forum can help me to get it running?

P.s.: I am also hanging around in IRC if anyone wants to chat me

Smasher:
Figured that out, no need to clarify:

* New mydata= boot code to support alternate name for backup. Defaults to mydata.tgz.

From http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=9290.0

Maybe that could be added to FAQ and [F2]: http://tinycorelinux.net/faq.html#bootcodes

Also, xexec= boot code seems to be supported but not documented anywhere

curaga:
Maybe your usb stick is slow, taking longer than 5 seconds to register? The "noacpi" bootcode may also hinder.

Smasher:
Yep, changing the delay from 5 to 15 changed things. Now the extensions get loaded during the boot, but when the loading is finished, my display turns black and I cannot do anything. Here is the list of extensions in onboot_STB_Xorg.lst


--- Code: ---Xfbdev.tcz
Xorg-7.7.tcz
xf86-video-modesetting.tcz
xf86-input-synaptics.tcz
kmaps.tcz
libEGL.tcz
libepoxy.tcz
xfwm4.tcz
aterm.tcz
harfbuzz.tcz
imlib2-bin.tcz
pcre.tcz
sqlite3.tcz
wbar.tcz
seagate-font.tcz
asian-fonts.tcz
ncurses-terminfo.tcz
ncurses-utils.tcz
slocate.tcz
findutils.tcz
bash.tcz
nano.tcz
coreutils.tcz
util-linux.tcz
grep.tcz
pci-utils.tcz
expat2.tcz
openssl.tcz
pixman.tcz
mylocale.tcz
curl.tcz
SeaChest_noAuto.tcz
SeaTools212_noAuto.tcz

--- End code ---

Might one of them cause such behavior?

Juanito:
Enter “version” at a terminal prompt to see which version of tinycore you have.

You could load a different window manager (flwm) to see if that works?

Note also you should load Xfbdev or Xorg-7.7, but not both.

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