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TC Pure 64 on Wintel W8 Pro

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PDP-8:
Update - my love for combining TinyCorePure64 and Ventoy increases over time ..

I should have mentioned this earlier, but this combination is even easier than before now that you can instruct the latest Ventoy to navigate to an iso, rather than being forced to put the iso on the same Ventoy boot stick.

1) Create a Ventoy boot stick with the latest release.  No need to put the TC iso on it.

2) Put the TC64 iso on an ext3/4/fat32 formatted drive or partition.  Putting in root makes it faster to find with Ventoy. (use F2 to navigate to it)

3) To pick up the embedded graphical environment, simply follow the steps in the TinyCore FAQ:

Can TC boot and be used directly from an ISO file?

http://www.tinycorelinux.net/faq.html

Very flexible.  I opted to edit my /opt/bootlocal.sh once it was proven to work.

Of course, do what you prefer.  This is probably one of the faster ways to get TC up and running in the classic demo mode to kick the tires on modern powerful cheap machines that may balk for whatever reason trying to boot TC64 directly.  Ventoy fixes that as the front-end bootloader.

Now you can get down to TC business quickly no matter WHAT machine you may encounter.  Hate to see those little mini-pc's that are 10 times more powerful in speed and ram compared to oldy-moldies get hung up if you aren't a wizard at efi partioning/formatting all afternoon. Ventoy gets you over the hump!

Demontager:
Hello, i got same mini-pc wintel Pro except more ram available(4gb). Did you try to install tc to internal drive? e.g. /dev/mmcblk1p1
I have used Ventoy to load TinyCorePure64 image then tc-install.sh tool, but after successful installation BIOS does not show bootable drive therefore i cant load tc from internal hard drive. I guess i miss some UEFI instruction too.

PDP-8:
Hi - I never try to install to the internal drive - I only run from other external filesystems like usb, sdcard etc.

So in my case there are many ways to boot / run on that box with TC - the most convenient being 3rd party front end bootloaders (Ventoy, Yumi-UEFI) etc.

One thing for sure - whether you run TC or any other distro, one additional kernel parameter option you need to run manually or incorporate into your grub.cfg is:


--- Code: ---acpi=noirq
--- End code ---

Otherwise, you'll run into random lockups.  Full-scale options like "noacpi" are too draconian, so the acpi=noirq kernel parameter tames the lockups nicely in a much more polite manner. :)

Demontager:
Yes,  both Ventoy and YUMI works for boot i tried both.
Thanks for tips with acpi. I have opened new topic regarding installing TC on Wintel, currently stuck on grub installing http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,25837.msg165698.html#msg165698

PDP-8:
Cool - both of those open up options for TC.

Just know that with Ventoy, you used to have to put the iso on the same stick, but now you can just navigate to the desired iso, which can conveniently be on another filesystem.  That's how I normally run it.

Also too, note that Ventoy isn't "TC aware" like Yumi-uefi is, so that you will always land at the command prompt.

This means you have two choices - either use the "fromISOfile" option to pick up the embedded minimal fltk/flwm gui, and manually start it with startx - or just ignore the embedded minimal gui, and build up your own with a dedicated TCE directory and so forth.

Lots of options - but if a less-skilled user like myself can get Ventoy or Yumi booting on some obscure hardware, that means TC is just a step away!

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