KernelPanic (new non!-user help please)

[Pats]

Pats wrote:

.This may not be actual soln , but  since I was in a hurry , I didnt waste time to experiment with the old memcard ! Just my 2cents !

thl0 wrote:
 

..and Lo! here I am login on 6.4.1 on one of the USBsticks ( not the SDcard anymore, more about that in another post soon..

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[thl04]

When I made the mistake of flashting to the wrong drive, (the SDcard) I had decided to use Etcher to do it.

Till then I had been using core2usb to do the various Tinys. But the RasberryPi PC Desktop Jessie that is working had been done via Etcher.
So, to try again with 6.4.1 on one of the USBsticks where it should have been I chose Etcher again,,,
and it worked ! (see previous post)

But it still doesnt work with CorePlus-current.iso (10.1 for anyone reading this in the future !) to the same USBstick. Very strange   The experiments continue.

[thl04]

6.4.1 is good for me to get going and learn linux as a refugee from Win***s, but I will also continue to puzzle about these other failures to boot.
I have various other flash cards and sticks that I can try.

I am about to try "h2testw_1.4"
Anyone suggest other software to test usb flash ?
Thanks.

[Juanito]

Rather than use core2usb or etcher, it might be better to use the tc-install extension to install tinycore to a usb stick, or failing that, standard linux tools to partition the usb stick and install a boot loader.

[thl04]

it might be better to use the tc-install extension to install tinycore to a usb stick, or failing that, standard linux tools to partition the usb stick and install a boot loader.

Good idea! But first I will have to read up on how to unambiguously identify my HDD in this new language, dont want any more writing mishaps

[mocore]

it might be better to use the tc-install extension to install tinycore to a usb stick, or failing that, standard linux tools to partition the usb stick and install a boot loader.

+1 ... if
booting other linux is posable ( esp with / from cd/dvd ) 
then 
linux tools to partition the usb stick and install a boot loader.

is easy ....

Good idea! But first I will have to read up on how to unambiguously identify my HDD in this new language, dont want any more writing mishaps

  the easy way to avoid problems with disk id is to DISCONNECT any disk you do not have backedup !!!

using partition labels can help make devices less ambiguous  more identifiable   

it reminds me of a story
the moral of which is something like
check twice; sudo once 

accidentally deleted a directory on the wrong server
&
wiped a folder containing 300GB of live production data that was due to be replicated.

[coreplayer2]

Hello thl04

I have to agree, please disconnect all HDD’s you don’t want to accidentally erase.

Also, I don’t know if you’ve been successful booting off an SDCARD but most PC BIOS/EFI’s don’t support booting from SDCARD.  To boot an SDCARD you usually require a USB interface .

By far the best option is to buy a new USB thumb stick.

Good luck


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[thl04]

successful booting off an SDCARD  ,,,,usually require a USB interface .

By far the best option is to buy a new USB thumb stick.

Hi,
Sadly I was too successful, it was in usb card reader in a hub at the time and didnt outabin !
see my post #41

Arrrgghhhh!
So I went  to re-flash TC 6.4.1 on my USBstick ready to do the ifconfig test and ,,,
flashed the wrong drive !!
,,,,,,,

and I did buy 3 new sticks (Sandisk Cruzer Blade) they run RasberryPi Desktop Debian ok but I had a struggle to get TC 6.4.1 running on them, and TC 10.1 doesnt want to run at all on any of them on this computer, but will on another laptop,
so all in all it has been quite a game and I think I must have a hardware problem on this spare HP desktop computer.

The experiments continue.

[Rich]

Hi thl04

... I can append, then when I ENTER it still does not boot, still does the KP thing and locks up, no cmd prompt  catch22

Let's try something a little more aggressive:

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debug text base norestore nolapic noapic acpi=off

[thl04]

Let's try something a little more aggressive:

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debug text base norestore nolapic noapic acpi=off

Hi, thanks,  did you want me to do that with the 10.1 that hangs on boot with a ",,, reboot in 60sec"
or the 6.4.1 that runs ?

On the 10.1 it does get  further !  To a prompt and some 'stuff' :

tc@box:~$ e1000e NIC Link is Up 100Mbps Full Duplex Flow Control : None e1000e 0000 : oo : 19.0 eth0 10/100 speed:disabling TSO
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and hangs there with a flashing dash, or underscore?,  till I did an 'enter' whereupon it returned me to the tc@ prompt

[thl04]

My bads :
tc@box:~$ e1000e eth0 NIC Link is Up 100Mbps Full Duplex Flow Control : None e1000e 0000 : 00 : 19.0 eth0 10/100 speed:disabling TSO

[Rich]

Hi thl04
Yes, do it with 10.1.

tc@box:~$ e1000e NIC Link is Up 100Mbps Full Duplex Flow Control : None e1000e 0000 : oo : 19.0 eth0 10/100 speed:disabling TSO
-

and hangs there with a flashing dash, or underscore?,  till I did an 'enter' whereupon it returned me to the tc@ prompt

Success, you got to a command prompt which is what we were shooting for. Now try these one at a time to see which one fixed it:

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nolapic noapic acpi=offwhile keeping these:

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debug text base norestore

and hangs there with a flashing dash, or underscore?,  till I did an 'enter' whereupon it returned me to the tc@ prompt

Sometimes the console needs an extra carriage return to get its attention.

My bads :
tc@box:~$ e1000e eth0 NIC Link is Up 100Mbps Full Duplex Flow Control : None e1000e 0000 : 00 : 19.0 eth0 10/100 speed:disabling TSO

That's also good. It means your network connection is running.

[thl04]

oh dear, sorry, I have mislead you (us),
in my enthusiasm to try your commands out
(in the middle of cooking the evening meal and other domestics)
 I got my sticks confused and that in fact was with the 6.4.1

so I had tabbed and edited before it had a chance to boot and show its true self.

However, it did give that stuff and hang whereas without it it would have (should have) proceeded to the graphical desktop.

So, I'll concentrate better later this evening and hopefully give you a true picture with 10.1 assuming that I have not overwritten it somewhere 

[thl04]

The real 10.1 result ! :-

No change, still no boot, as in post #29

 

[coreplayer2]

Hello th104

I am often not sure which version or architecture I booted too.  To quickly find out simply enter these commands

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version
uname -r





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