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TinyCorePure64 only in uefi mode
PDP-8:
--- Quote ---I only use linux PCs, debian and puppylinux, no windows. I have a UEFI desktop PC and would like to try TC64. Although I used dd command successfully for 32bit laptop USB stick boot, on my main PC, dd command onto USB stick fails to boot. Any recommendations?
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Yep, I'm so tired of battling with the issue that I have thrown in the towel and only use VENTOY as the front end, since it has *always* been recognized and bootable, bypassing whatever is wrong with the TC 64-bit iso. I've lost interest and just want to get to work, not be a sysadmin for each and every stick and system I have to make. Ventoy does that job without argument just fine. :)
Kind of similar to the old days, when one could boot the CD and it would work, rather than having to be a wizard with iso9660 filesystem creation first. Eh, water under the bridge. Moving forward ...
It comes in 3 flavors:
1) As a windows util
2) As a linux util (commandline)
3) As a dd'able iso that boots and only serves one single purpose: to make a Ventoy stick which you place your iso(s) onto. I only use it for TC however.
Until recently, (as of ver 1.70), after creating the Ventoy stick, one had to copy the iso to the Ventoy stick. With 1.70, you can now just navigate to the TCpure64 iso wherever you have it in your filesystem, and it will boot that way.
Of course, since the TC iso is designed for the old days of cd-roms, when the iso boots, it doesn't know about the fact that if you want the graphical environment, you have to move the cde directory to the root of a filesystem and rename it to tce.
OR, you can be ok landing at the commandline, and manually build-up your graphical environment using setdrive, and downloading and loading all the minimal graphics stuff, like xfbdev, aterm, fltk etc.
Despite my frustration with the TC iso on even relatively modern machines, something is wrong for many. Ventoy is super flexible, so like TC itself, there are many ways to use it. But if you love TC and just want to get down to work, it will get you there faster and more reliably. My .02c anyway.
puppybyte!:
--- Quote from: polikuo on February 23, 2022, 11:45:22 PM ---
If you know how to setup a bootloader yourself, you can just grab the required files from
http://tinycorelinux.net/13.x/x86/release/distribution_files/
http://tinycorelinux.net/13.x/x86_64/release/distribution_files/
ModeKernelInit Ram DiskCore32vmlinuz(core.gz) or (rootfs.gz + modules.gz)Core64vmlinuz64(rootfs.gz + modules64.gz)CorePure64vmlinuz64(corepure64.gz) or (rootfs64.gz + modules64.gz)
Then pass your tce partition UUID to your bootloader
--- Code: ---tce=UUID="bla-bla-bla-bla"
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am not sure if I am doing this right. using gparted I got my usb stick with EFI partition (sdg1), with gpt, 300MB fat32 with esp/boot flag. Do I place the vmlinuz and corepure64.gz in sdg1? I am not usre how to pass the tce partition UUID?
polikuo:
Hi puppybyte
Which bootloader are you using ?
SYSLINUX --> buggy with TC13 dosfstools(mkfs.vfat) at the moment
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,20939.0.html
GRUB2 --> I haven't test this one with current mkfs.vfat
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,19364.0.html
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