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What program do you use to burn a Tiny Core ISO in a CD-R?
Mauricio:
--- Quote from: gadget42 on February 08, 2024, 11:26:27 AM ---with respect to your success in reply #96, what happens when you add back in just the floppy drive? does it sound like it is trying to read a disk during the boot-up sequence?
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It made that sound always when I turned it up. I plugged just the floppy drive and it did sounds (I don't know how a floppy disk reading sounds hahaha, I'm too young :P), it made one 'plop' and then like a sequence of three. I think also a light of the drive blinked.
Mauricio:
--- Quote from: CNK on February 08, 2024, 06:11:50 PM ---In case the reboot in GRUB is due to faulty RAM causing a glitch, you could see if there's an option to disable "quick boot" or "fast memory self-test" or something similar in the BIOS settings. That would check the RAM more completely at start-up and possibly detect a failure that's missed during the default fast RAM test. Running Memtest86 would be better again, but that would need to be booted from a floppy or CD.
If there's more than one RAM stick installed, try booting with just one, then if it's the same try again with just the other stick.
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I just found some options about the booting process. It was at QuickBoot mode (I changed it to FullBoot), also I enabled POST messages. Still, I gonna wait for gadget42's response before I assembly the machine.
Also, could be the QuickBoot that is preventing to the machine booting with Linux?
Rich:
Hi Mauricio
QuickBoot bypasses the memory test to reduce the wait time
prior to booting.
Mauricio:
--- Quote from: gadget42 on February 09, 2024, 03:56:52 AM ---
--- Quote from: Mauricio on February 08, 2024, 10:57:55 AM ---...
I think I should buy a floppy disk sometime in the future and try the Plop Boot manager solution that CNK proposed.
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in most regions there is usually _someone_ who has unused and unwanted computer stuff. that would give you additional possibilities for all sorts of parts/peripherals/etc.
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Yep, for my luck, this is not my case hahaha. I never met someone who cared about old hardware, most people will dump it. I managed to save just one full PC from a side of a dumpster, is the one I used for installing the InstantCore image into the Pentium II HDD. I found like 2 cabinets with some mobos inside (with RAM sticks), I gotta buy a PSU and try those.
I envy you guys, there is all sort of vintage electronics in USA and people that care about them and keep them in good condition :)
Mauricio:
--- Quote from: Rich on February 09, 2024, 07:37:44 AM ---Hi Mauricio
On the chance that what you are trying to boot is too
new for your machine, try TinyCore-4.7.7.iso from here:
http://tinycorelinux.net/4.x/x86/release/
for the GUI version.
Or you can try Core-4.7.7.iso for a command line version.
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Never thought about this. I assumed that the new TC releases were 'compatible' with hardware this old.
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