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What program do you use to burn a Tiny Core ISO in a CD-R?
Mauricio:
--- Quote from: Rich on February 09, 2024, 10:09:45 AM ---Hi Mauricio
QuickBoot bypasses the memory test to reduce the wait time
prior to booting.
--- End quote ---
Oh, okay. I thought it was something similar to Fast Boot that gave a lot of Linux users some trouble :)
gadget42:
getting more familiar with the bios is a good thing. i usually run the full-boot a few times to see the memory checks succeed and then switch back to quick-boot so it doesn't take as long to boot. you can plug the cd-rom drive back in and see if the bios gives you the option to make it the first-boot device. you should be aware that some motherboards of that era might not be able to boot from a cd-rom. in that case, the machine would boot from a system floppy and then load cd-rom driver(s) from the floppy for whichever optical drive is installed. hopefully that makes some sense. keep us posted!
Mauricio:
--- Quote from: gadget42 on February 09, 2024, 03:22:39 PM ---getting more familiar with the bios is a good thing. i usually run the full-boot a few times to see the memory checks succeed and then switch back to quick-boot so it doesn't take as long to boot. you can plug the cd-rom drive back in and see if the bios gives you the option to make it the first-boot device. you should be aware that some motherboards of that era might not be able to boot from a cd-rom. in that case, the machine would boot from a system floppy and then load cd-rom driver(s) from the floppy for whichever optical drive is installed. hopefully that makes some sense. keep us posted!
--- End quote ---
I booted with the FullBoot option + POST enabled but I didn't notice a difference.
I actually moved at the beginning the CD drive boot to the first, and second the HDD.
Mauricio:
I got some news.
After I re-assembled the machine (connected everything as it was) and booted, it showed the next screen:
--- Code: --- 131072 KB OK
The following configuration options were automatically updated:
Disk 1: 4222 Mbytes
If you are running Unix, you need to configure your system using the COMPAQ User Diagnostics diskette.
--- End code ---
Thats the diskette asking message I was mentioning earlier on the topic.
Also, I created a bootable CD with Plop Boot Manager on it using wodim with the next arguments, and again, it won't boot:
--- Code: ---speed=10 padsize=63s -pad -dao -v -eject
--- End code ---
CNK:
With it passing the memory test when "quick boot" is disabled, that makes it less likely that faulty RAM is the issue. Continuing with booting Plop Boot Manager from floppy or HDD is probably the next obvious step. Burning Plop BM to a CD was a pretty long shot because the idea is to use it as an alternative to the broken CD boot system of the BIOS, but I guess it was worth a try.
Other options would be to try installing TC to the HDD with Extlinux as the bootloader instead of GRUB. Or to install DOS on the HDD and use that to boot TC via Loadlin or install Plop BM on the HDD using its DOS installer program.
But I guess you won't be comfortable with the DOS option if floppies are from before your time. I'll say again that I have the same issue with a CD boot option that doesn't work on the mid-90s PC I'm posting from now, and booting to a Plop Boot Manager floppy then selecting the CDROM boot option from that works to boot TC from CD. Maybe ask older relatives if they've still got some old floppies deep in a dusty cupboard? That's how I got plenty of spares after they went out of use - I don't have friends into old computers either, I just benefit from people getting rid of 'junk'.
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