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What program do you use to burn a Tiny Core ISO in a CD-R?
jazzbiker:
:-(
Have You seen this computer boot something and if yes what was the happy booter?
Mauricio:
--- Quote from: jazzbiker on February 07, 2024, 05:34:46 PM ---:-(
Have You seen this computer boot something and if yes what was the happy booter?
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So this PC was stored for a couple of years. About a month ago I tried to turn it on and it turned on but it gave no video. I did some searches and found a post somewhere that told me to first change the BIOS battery and try again, and it gave video.
This PC had Windows XP on it. When the PC booted it asked for some Windows repair CD or something, but I didn't bother me too much since I don't use Windows :P and tried to install TC on it directly.
CNK:
An alternative way to try the Plop Boot Manager for booting the CD is to install the boot manager on the original HDD using another computer, similar to what you've been trying. You might need to repartition and format the HDD first, with the first partition FAT formatted. Using a floppy would still be easiest if you can. Old PCs like booting from floppies, everything else makes them cranky. :)
jazzbiker:
Hi!
I can not understand why GRUB can not find the data on the disk. It reads some data from BIOS. Are these data fake? But we can not repair this. Can this box be kind of hardwired for Windows only?
jazzbiker:
In order to exclude InstantCore.img issues I've wrote it to 4.3G HDD of my ancient Toshiba laptop with P1 and 64M of RAM. No CHS adjustments, just as is and everything was smooth excepts screen resolution (got 640*480 instead of 800*600) but it was expected. GRUB menu appeared, kernel loaded, TinyX desktop worked normally.
Toshiba SatellitePro 480CDT.
Unfortunately @Mauricio's box has tricky BIOS, and I don't know, what can be done.
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