Black screen TinyCorePure64-15.0 and Ventoy

[vito]

tl;dr:
post suggests trying acpi=noirq

"acpi=noirq" didn't resolve the issue, unfortunately.

I haven't tried booting in another way than Ventoy yet.

[mocore]

 

does it work properly without ventoy?
i also had a similar problem with ventoy+porteus. lucky for me, the boot worked correctly with the grub option.

standalone efi @ https://www.supergrubdisk.org/category/download/supergrub2diskdownload/super-grub2-disk-stable/
might be useful to test alt ldr?...

[Rich]

Hi vito

... To avoid doubts, Ubuntu and other Linux distros boot correctly on the same laptop and USB so the issue seems to be with TinyCorePure64 only. Fortunately, it is possible to reboot laptop by pressing ctrl+alt+del for a few seconds.

So other ISOs are booting correctly using Ventoy, right?

[vito]

So other ISOs are booting correctly using Ventoy, right?

Right.

[gadget42]

@vito, after some investigation it appears that Ventoy is currently failing for some users regardless of the operating system they are attempting to boot/install/live-run/etc

the version we have been experimenting with is:
(sha1 checksum 30bdd6023d81ea09ec5b19f5924ec92c56f96538  ventoy-1.0.99-linux.tar.gz)

so it isn't TinyCoreLinux failing...it is Ventoy. hopefully the Ventoy folks will get it sorted out presently.
(tried tcl-15.x, tcl-14.x, tcl-13.x, and tcl-12.x and ventoy brought them all up without a gui...so failure)

[vito]

does it work properly without ventoy?

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.