Waiting cursor / incomplete startup with PPI

[Black Sliver]

Hi!

I've installed TC to an IDE flash drive by simply formatting and copying the files from the .iso (and installing grub from Ubuntu) and it's working as non-persistent, but if I add local=hda1 to the end of the kernel line, it seems as it does not start up completely. When the GUI is running, the window borders are missing, the click-on-desktop menu is not working, the menu that should be in the right, bottom corner is not there and the cursor turns into a waiting 'X' while on the desktop.

Any ideas what causes this?

[Guy]

Try

tce=hda1 home=hda1

This will give you PPR mode, and be less likely to cause problems.

[Black Sliver]

But that mode doesn't allow direct access to the file system?
E.g. compiling stuff, installing with some random installers, etc.

[Guy]

You could try

waitusb=5

Maybe with the extra files it is not getting time to fully load.

[Black Sliver]

Does not matter at all.
Even with waitusb=5 and an empty directory, it's not working

Anyone running TC in PPI mode without troubles? Maybe it's working with an older version?

[Black Sliver]

Seems to work with Tiny Core 2.2. And the boot up process is way faster with PPI with python installed
What's about the packages? Are the new ones available for the old core version?

[roberts]

But that mode doesn't allow direct access to the file system?
E.g. compiling stuff, installing with some random installers, etc.

PPI only provides only a persistent  /usr/local and not the entire filesystem.
So unless random installers only install to /usr/local/ there may not be much advantage.

Your described issue sounds like no window manager detected.

What does the command version display?
What does echo $DESKTOP display?

[Black Sliver]

Hi

Thanks for your reply! I've moved from 2.3 to 2.2, so I can't provide the two outputs you asked for. The main problem with PPR mode is the boot time after installing additional stuff. E.g. python takes a couple of secs to unpack but it's very important for quick scripts.

PPI only provides only a persistent  /usr/local and not the entire filesystem.

Is there any way to change this? At least the /usr/share stuff would be important too.

While trying puppy and a few other distributions, I ran into another HUGE problem:
I've built a custom touchscreen interface / device working as an USB/HID Mouse with absolute X and Y axes (instead of relative as a normal mouse would have). Well... it seems that all distributions but Ubuntu can not handle it, BUT the HID-Report is definitely correct, seems to be some kernel patch that only Ubuntu integrates. I think I'll go for U-lite (Ubuntu lite) for now. Maybe I'll come back later with a custom kernel with that patch applied to it.
If someone by random knows which patch that is, I'd really appreciate it


so long..