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MTCAT:
Hi Rich,

I'm using this board here.

https://www.winsystems.com/product/ppm-c412/

I already did quite some time ago set the Boot order as USB first (I think anyway), followed by the CF-card, so the PPM-C412 is set to boot from USB first, and if it doesn't find any USB boot devices, then boot from CF-card, I think anyway, I will check the BIOS again though to make sure.

I was also trying to boot up the PPM-C412 off an external USB hard drive with a Slackware image on it (obtained with Clonezilla), didn't work though, but I'm pretty sure the USB boot is already selected as priority one, but I'll check to make sure.

Thanks,

David

MTCAT:
Hi Rich,

Checked my BIOS, first boot device is USB, second is CD/DVD, third is removable device, fourth is hard drive (my CF-card).

There are a bunch of other settings, there is something called "Quick Boot" which is currently enabled, allows the computer to skip some tests when booting, to make boot up faster. There's also something called "Fast Boot" which wass set to "Enhanced 1", the default is "Disabled", so I changed it back to "Disabled", but the new pen drive we're trying to work with still won't boot TC3.8.4.

Is there a way to check if the USB drive I'm trying to boot TC3.8.4 to is indeed bootable ? I wonder if that's the problem ? TC uses syslinux as the boot loader ? I also found  detailed wiki page here that seems promising maybe ?

http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/doku.php?id=wiki:install_usb_stepbystep

Would need to know which version of syslinux to use for TC3 though ?

Thanks,

David



Thanks,

David

Rich:
Hi MTCAT
Boy, they sure list a lot of BIOS settings in that manual. Too bad they don't bother to document any of them.

Page 49
USB Devices Enabled   [None]
I think this is supposed to display which USB devices were detected. Does your thumb drive show up?

Legacy USB Support   [Enabled]
I'm pretty sure you want this enabled

Page 51
Boot Menu Hot-Key   [Enabled]
Would be nice if they mentioned which hot key they used. If you hit  F11  when you power up, do you
get a boot menu? If you do, does your thumb drive show up?

Page 52
USB Device Interface   [Disabled]
I don't know what this setting does, but you might want to try changing it.


--- Quote from: MTCAT on February 24, 2021, 10:44:31 PM --- ... Is there a way to check if the USB drive I'm trying to boot TC3.8.4 to is indeed bootable ? ...
--- End quote ---
Do you have another machine you know will boot from a thumb drive, preferably non UEFI ?

curaga:
If you don't have another machine that can boot from usb, you can use Qemu on any Linux machine. "qemu -m 256 -hda /dev/sdX" where sdX is your usb stick.

MTCAT:
Hi Rich,

I tried booting up an old AMD desktop (dual boot with LILO, Win7/Slackware) and also an old Asus EEE netbook (running some form of Linux) and in both cases, they wouldn't boot off the pen-drive.

I can install the TC3.8.4 iso with YUMI, and boot that way, but I think somehow, the "DIY" pen-drive we're trying to build is not being made "bootable" ?

I could boot the YUMI version of 3.8.4 and then try to install to the pen-drive, assuming the tc-install program running in 3.8.4 has that "Make bootable" entry available ?

Or I could try the "manual" method as per the wiki page, but then I would need to know the right version of syslinux to use ?

Thanks,

David

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