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Black screen TinyCorePure64-15.0 and Ventoy
vito:
--- Quote from: CardealRusso on September 01, 2024, 03:38:23 PM ---does it work properly without ventoy?
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No, there is the same problem both booting with and without Ventoy, unfortunately. I flashed TinyCorePure64-15.0.iso on SanDisk 128 GB pendrive (using Rufus 4.6, GPT partition scheme and trying both "write in ISO image mode" and "write in DD image mode"). In case of ISO image mode I saw GRUB2 command line only. In case of DD image mode, I saw the boot menu (with 4 items: tc, tcw, ...).
GNUser:
Hi Vito. I have bootable USB sticks with TCL15 x86_64 that work just fine, and they go back in forth between computers with legacy bios and computers with UEFI.
My guess is that your problem stems from automated tools (e.g., Ventoy, Rufus, Balena, etc.) making assumptions about TCL, your computer (e.g., BIOS vs. UEFI), or your bootloader that are not true. But there are too many variables here to be sure what the problem is. I think ditching the automated tools and creating the bootable USB stick manually, one step at a time, is the best way.
The steps I followed to success are in this thread (first post by Juanito has everything you need for UEFI. For legacy BIOS, I discovered that the USB stick also needs a BIOS boot partition--see reply #51):
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,19364.0.html
Note that I created my bootable USB sticks in 2024, so these instructions are still valid today despite Juanito having written this in 2015!
vito:
I will try. However, the same TinyCorePure64-15.0.iso on SanDisk 128 GB USB-C pendrive (with Ventoy) boots successfully on another (older) laptop.
polikuo:
There's a alternative bootloader, called syslinux, in case you're interested
How to make a legacy bios/uefi dual boot usb stick with syslinux
BTW, when I was still a noob, I used to use Pendrive Linux or LinuxLive USB Creator
I haven't use them for ages, so I can't say for certain if they still do excellent job with TC.
vito:
Maybe newer version of GRUB solves the issue cause I got some progress by booting manually from GRUB 2.04 which is present in Ventoy 1.0.99 (by pressing <c> in a menu screen). Maybe NVMe compatibility is an issue (as it is in this newer laptop unlike the old one).
--- Code: ---grub> set root=(loop,msdos1)
grub> linux /boot/vmlinuz64 root=/dev/sda1
grub> initrd /boot/corepure64.gz
grub> boot
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