No persistance on USB flash drive

[roberts]

Not to put the Wiki down, but  be aware that Wikis are set up for the user community.
It is user documentation for users by users and does not necessarily represent the official view.
Or in this case, was likely created before the usbinstall script was created.
Tiny Core's development moves fast so documentation is always trying to catch up.

[althalus]

Not to put the Wiki down, but  be aware that Wikis are set up for the user community.
It is user documentation for users by users and does not necessarily represent the official view.
Or in this case, was likely created before the usbinstall script was created.
Tiny Core's development moves fast so documentation is always trying to catch up.

USBInstall is the second heading on the wiki page, and yet people still miss it. Maybe somebody could update the USB install page and break it up into two pages - Move everything but using the USBInstall script to a separate page, and provide a link to "The Hard Way". Then people WILL see the easy way, and have to very deliberately try to access "The Hard Way" if they want to do it themselves.

[yoshi314]

You could even use unetbootin to boot up Tiny Core with base norestore and turn around run the usbinstall script to make a properly configured pendrive. But no. That would be too easy.

it would be natural if somebody would try to use only tinycore on it. i've already got puppy linux on the pendrive and i wanted to plug tinycore to the bootloader as well. it works, but i have the issue with tce=

for me, it's just that i cannot map the tce partition via UUID - for some strange reason pendrive is mapped as sdb, regardless of whether i boot off hdd or pendrive. no guarantee it'll be the same on some other pc.

[bmarkus]

If you have a /tce directory on a partition which can be mounted and read by the base system, it will be found by TC and first used, you do not have to know the mounting point. For example you can boot from CD and automatically use a /tce dir on HD or USB partition with ext2/ext3/fat partition.

[yoshi314]

If you have a /tce directory on a partition which can be mounted and read by the base system, it will be found by TC and first used, you do not have to know the mounting point. For example you can boot from CD and automatically use a /tce dir on HD or USB partition with ext2/ext3/fat partition.

that didn't seem to happen last time i tried. it was a 2gb ext2 partition and /tce was there (although empty).

i'll try again with fat partition, maybe that will work.

[gerald_clark]

Stick with the ext2 format.  If this is a USB drive, don't forget the waitusb=5 boot option.

[yoshi314]

If this is a USB drive, don't forget the waitusb=5 boot option.

i've never needed it so far. maybe it's just what  i need.

[reidi]

and extlinux bootloader.

Ah-ha, so at least one other person uses it then

I configured my first TC pendrive in December.  Somehow I did that using extlinux on an ext2 filesystem.  I simply cannot find that procedure now.  The current usbinstall/USB_installation process only uses a FAT 16 or 32 filesystem as far as I can tell.

Can you point me to a procedure where I can use an ext2/3 file system and preferably an extlinux loader (as opposed to GRUB)?

Thanks.

[^thehatsrule^]

I think that script has an ext2 part to it...

[Juanito]

see http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/tcz/syslinux.tcz.info

[reidi]

see http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/tcz/syslinux.tcz.info

Thank you, that is about as concise as one can get.  I found that this line:

$ sudo extlinux /mnt/sda1/boot/extlinux     is possibly incorrect.  I used:

$ sudo extlinux -i /mnt/sda1/boot/extlinux

[Juanito]

Thanks - info file updated.

..so, did it work? Can you boot with extlinux now?

[reidi]

Thanks - info file updated.

..so, did it work? Can you boot with extlinux now?

Yes, it works beautifully.  (Have not tried an ext3 fs, but the ext2 works just fine.)  Thanks!

[yoshi314]

yup, it seems that waitusb parameter made it work. now it works great with tce=UUID=... option.