I use a 32mb flash disk (via ide, not usb) as my boot drive. I created it by booting from a tinycore v2.4.1 usb cd and using usbinstall. I chose extlinux. I have not loaded any extensions yet. Upon exit of flwm via logout:shut down:no backup, it states:
sh: quiet: unknown operand
Here is the content of my stats.txt:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineTMx86
cpu family : 5
model : 4
model name : Transmeta(tm) Crusoe(tm) Processor TM5800
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 731.566
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr cx8 sep cmov mmx longrun lrti constant_tsc up
bogomips : 1463.09
clflush size : 32
power management:
MemTotal: 499016 kB
MemFree: 463428 kB
Buffers: 16 kB
Cached: 17904 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 25872 kB
Inactive: 32 kB
Active(anon): 25864 kB
Inactive(anon): 0 kB
Active(file): 8 kB
Inactive(file): 32 kB
Unevictable: 0 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 499016 kB
LowFree: 463428 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 7988 kB
Mapped: 3488 kB
Slab: 7960 kB
SReclaimable: 3740 kB
SUnreclaim: 4220 kB
PageTables: 160 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 249508 kB
Committed_AS: 27876 kB
VmallocTotal: 524344 kB
VmallocUsed: 232 kB
VmallocChunk: 523392 kB
DirectMap4k: 8128 kB
DirectMap4M: 499712 kB
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:20:D9:A9:23
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:15 Base address:0xc000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:600 (600.0 B) TX bytes:600 (600.0 B)
squashfs 11732 0 - Live 0xdf833000
scsi_wait_scan 260 0 - Live 0xdf826000
serio_raw 2240 0 - Live 0xdf819000
via_rhine 12476 0 - Live 0xdf8b2000
parport_pc 18352 0 - Live 0xdf893000
parport 18768 1 parport_pc, Live 0xdf856000
PID USER COMMAND
1 root init
2 root [kthreadd]
3 root [migration/0]
4 root [ksoftirqd/0]
5 root [events/0]
6 root [work_on_cpu/0]
7 root [khelper]
8 root [kblockd/0]
9 root [kacpid]
10 root [kacpi_notify]
11 root [ata/0]
12 root [ata_aux]
13 root [ksuspend_usbd]
14 root [khubd]
15 root [kseriod]
17 root [pdflush]
18 root [pdflush]
19 root [kswapd0]
20 root [aio/0]
21 root [nfsiod]
36 root [kpsmoused]
37 root [hid_compat]
40 root [rpciod/0]
66 root /sbin/udevd --daemon
1174 tc -sh
1232 root Xvesa -br -screen 1024x768x32 -shadow -mouse /dev/input/mice,5 -nolisten tcp -I
1248 tc flwm
1253 tc wbar -bpress -config /usr/local/tce.wbar
1270 root /sbin/udhcpc -b -i eth0 -h box -p /var/run/udhcpc.eth0.pid
1271 tc /usr/bin/cpanel
1272 tc [sh]
1284 tc stats
1300 tc sh -c ps ax | tee /tmp/stats.txt >> stats.txt
1301 tc ps ax
1302 tc tee /tmp/stats.txt
Linux version 2.6.29.1-tinycore (root@box) (gcc version 4.2.2) #1337 SMP Fri Apr 10 19:12:39 EEST 2009
KERNEL supported cpus:
Intel GenuineIntel
AMD AuthenticAMD
NSC Geode by NSC
Cyrix CyrixInstead
Centaur CentaurHauls
Transmeta GenuineTMx86
Transmeta TransmetaCPU
UMC UMC UMC UMC
PAT not supported by CPU.
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009b000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009b000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001eff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001eff0000 - 000000001eff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001eff3000 - 000000001f000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
DMI 2.3 present.
Phoenix BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working around it.
last_pfn = 0x1eff0 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000
kernel direct mapping tables up to 1eff0000 @ 10000-15000
RAMDISK: 1e79e000 - 1efee0a9
ACPI: RSDP 000F62A0, 0014 (r0 I-BASE)
ACPI: RSDT 1EFF3000, 0028 (r1 I-BASE AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0)
ACPI: FACP 1EFF3040, 0074 (r1 I-BASE AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0)
FADT: X_PM1a_EVT_BLK.bit_width (16) does not match PM1_EVT_LEN (4)
ACPI: DSDT 1EFF30C0, 1A71 (r1 I-BASE AWRDACPI 1000 MSFT 100000E)
ACPI: FACS 1EFF0000, 0040
0MB HIGHMEM available.
495MB LOWMEM available.
mapped low ram: 0 - 1eff0000
low ram: 00000000 - 1eff0000
bootmap 00011000 - 00014e00
(9 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 001eff0000]
#0 [0000000000 - 0000001000] BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
#1 [0000001000 - 0000002000] EX TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000001000 - 0000002000]
#2 [0000006000 - 0000007000] TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000007000]
#3 [0000100000 - 0000528674] TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000100000 - 0000528674]
#4 [001e79e000 - 001efee0a9] RAMDISK ==> [001e79e000 - 001efee0a9]
#5 [0000529000 - 000052c000] INIT_PG_TABLE ==> [0000529000 - 000052c000]
#6 [000009b000 - 0000100000] BIOS reserved ==> [000009b000 - 0000100000]
#7 [0000010000 - 0000011000] PGTABLE ==> [0000010000 - 0000011000]
#8 [0000011000 - 0000015000] BOOTMAP ==> [0000011000 - 0000015000]
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0x00000010 -> 0x00001000
Normal 0x00001000 -> 0x0001eff0
HighMem 0x0001eff0 -> 0x0001eff0
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
0: 0x00000010 -> 0x0000009b
0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0001eff0
On node 0 totalpages: 126843
free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c0450d80, node_mem_map c1000200
DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 3947 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 960 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 121904 pages, LIFO batch:31
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
nr_irqs_gsi: 16
PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009b000 - 00000000000a0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000
Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 1f000000:e0ff0000)
NR_CPUS:8 nr_cpumask_bits:8 nr_cpu_ids:1 nr_node_ids:1
PERCPU: Allocating 32768 bytes of per cpu data
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 125851
Kernel command line: initrd=/tce/tinycore.gz quiet noswap tce=hda1/tce max_loop=255 waitusb=5 tce=UUID="8420c823-3288-44f7-bd4f-10d858f504a0" BOOT_IMAGE=/tce/bzImage
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
Fast TSC calibration failed
TSC: PIT calibration matches PMTIMER. 2 loops
Detected 731.566 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
console [tty0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 489956k/507840k available (2433k kernel code, 17228k reserved, 1088k data, 344k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xfff50000 - 0xfffff000 ( 700 kB)
pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xdf7f0000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 512 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xdeff0000 ( 495 MB)
.init : 0xc0477000 - 0xc04cd000 ( 344 kB)
.data : 0xc0360468 - 0xc04707b0 (1088 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc0360468 (2433 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok.
Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 1463.09 BogoMIPS (lpj=2438553)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (32 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (128 bytes/line)
CPU: Processor revision 1.4.1.0, 733 MHz
CPU: Code Morphing Software revision 4.4.1-10-125
CPU: 20030401 14:19 official release 4.4.1#4
CPU serial number disabled.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 9k freed
ACPI: Core revision 20081204
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 8e00)
weird, boot CPU (#0) not listed by the BIOS.
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
SMP disabled
Brought up 1 CPUs
Total of 1 processors activated (1463.09 BogoMIPS).
net_namespace: 944 bytes
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfa2e0, last bus=0
PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S5)
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: No dock devices found.
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xe2000000-0xe20fffff]
pci 0000:00:0d.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xe0000000-0xe0ffffff]
pci 0000:00:0d.0: reg 14 io port: [0xd000-0xd0ff]
pci 0000:00:0d.0: reg 18 32bit mmio: [0xe2100000-0xe2100fff]
pci 0000:00:0d.0: reg 30 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x01ffff]
pci 0000:00:0d.0: supports D1 D2
pci 0000:00:11.1: reg 20 io port: [0xd400-0xd40f]
pci 0000:00:11.2: reg 20 io port: [0xd800-0xd81f]
pci 0000:00:11.3: reg 20 io port: [0xdc00-0xdc1f]
pci 0000:00:11.5: reg 10 io port: [0xe000-0xe0ff]
pci 0000:00:11.5: reg 14 io port: [0xe400-0xe403]
pci 0000:00:11.5: reg 18 io port: [0xe800-0xe803]
pci 0000:00:12.0: reg 10 io port: [0xec00-0xecff]
pci 0000:00:12.0: reg 14 32bit mmio: [0xe2101000-0xe21010ff]
pci 0000:00:12.0: supports D1 D2
pci 0000:00:12.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:00:12.0: PME# disabled
pci_bus 0000:00: on NUMA node 0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 *15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 3.00 loaded.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 10 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
system 00:00: iomem range 0xd2000-0xd3fff has been reserved
system 00:00: iomem range 0xf0000-0xf7fff could not be reserved
system 00:00: iomem range 0xf8000-0xfbfff could not be reserved
system 00:00: iomem range 0xfc000-0xfffff could not be reserved
system 00:00: iomem range 0x1eff0000-0x1effffff could not be reserved
system 00:00: iomem range 0xffff0000-0xffffffff has been reserved
system 00:00: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved
system 00:00: iomem range 0x100000-0x1efeffff could not be reserved
system 00:00: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff has been reserved
system 00:02: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pci_bus 0000:00: resource 0 io: [0x00-0xffff]
pci_bus 0000:00: resource 1 mem: [0x000000-0xffffffff]
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
checking if image is initramfs...<7>Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
it is
Freeing initrd memory: 8512k freed
fuse init (API version 7.11)
msgmni has been set to 973
alg: No test for stdrng (krng)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
pci 0000:00:0d.0: Boot video device
input: Power Button (FF) as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input0
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
input: Sleep Button (FF) as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSLPBN:00/input/input1
ACPI: Sleep Button (FF) [SLPF]
input: Power Button (CM) as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input2
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
processor ACPI_CPU:00: registered as cooling_device0
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 2 throttling states)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12b
Non-volatile memory driver v1.3
Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is unknown type 15 (usb?), fd1 is unknown type 13 (usb?)
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
brd: module loaded
loop: loaded (max 255 devices)
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
NET: Registered protocol family 24
tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
via82cxxx 0000:00:11.1: VIA vt8231 (rev 10) IDE UDMA100
via82cxxx 0000:00:11.1: IDE controller (0x1106:0x0571 rev 0x06)
via82cxxx 0000:00:11.1: IDE port disabled
via82cxxx 0000:00:11.1: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: 32MB ATA Flash Disk, CFA DISK drive
hda: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
hda: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide_generic: please use "probe_mask=0x3f" module parameter for probing all legacy ISA IDE ports
ide-gd driver 1.18
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 62592 sectors (32 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=489/4/32
hda: hda1
ide-cd driver 5.00
Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: PCI INT D -> Link[LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: irq 11, io base 0x0000d800
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: PCI INT D -> Link[LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: irq 11, io base 0x0000dc00
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
cpuidle: using governor ladder
cpuidle: using governor menu
padlock: VIA PadLock not detected.
padlock: VIA PadLock Hash Engine not detected.
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
RPC: Registered udp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
IO APIC resources could be not be allocated.
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
Freeing unused kernel memory: 344k freed
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: Microsoft Microsoft Notebook/Mobile Optical Mouse 2.0 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/input/input3
generic-usb 0003:045E:007D.0001: input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Notebook/Mobile Optical Mouse 2.0] on usb-0000:00:11.2-2/input0
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-1:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-1:1.0: 3 ports detected
usb 2-1.1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 2-1.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: Alps Electric Apple USB Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.3/usb2/2-1/2-1.1/2-1.1:1.0/input/input4
generic-usb 0003:05AC:0201.0002: input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [Alps Electric Apple USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:11.3-1.1/input0
parport_pc: VIA 686A/8231 detected
parport_pc: probing current configuration
parport_pc: Current parallel port base: 0x378
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport_pc: VIA parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.4.3 2007-03-06 Written by Donald Becker
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 15
PCI: setting IRQ 15 as level-triggered
via-rhine 0000:00:12.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 15 (level, low) -> IRQ 15
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0xe2101000, 00:0f:20:d9:a9:23, IRQ 15.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7849 advertising 05e1 Link 0000.
Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle
squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
eth0: link down
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
tmpfs on / type tmpfs (rw,size=449116k)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=600)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/hda1 type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue)
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 438.6M 17.8M 420.8M 4% /
tmpfs 243.7M 0 243.7M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 29.6M 10.7M 18.9M 36% /mnt/hda1
initrd=/tce/tinycore.gz
quiet
noswap
tce=hda1/tce
max_loop=255
waitusb=5
tce=UUID="8420c823-3288-44f7-bd4f-10d858f504a0"
BOOT_IMAGE=/tce/bzImage
I'd be happy to provide any further information you might like. As I said before, the error seems harmless and I'm not bothered by it.
Thanks for your time.