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Help install TC - doesn't find the hard disk

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Juanito:

--- Quote from: jano on March 13, 2010, 04:25:48 AM ---What / where / how is dmesg ?

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You open a terminal window and:
--- Code: ---$ dmesg
[or, for example]
$ dmesg | tail -20
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curaga:
Or in the gui, control panel -> stats -> dmesg tab.


edit:
Oh, it's a poulsbo chip. Unsupported currently in TC 2.x. Unless someone makes an extension, wait for 3.x.

jano:
dmesg shows a lot of info, but there is no indication of the harddrive.


--- Quote from: curaga on March 13, 2010, 05:01:34 AM ---Oh, it's a poulsbo chip. Unsupported currently in TC 2.x. Unless someone makes an extension, wait for 3.x.

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Well, I'll keep an eye, waiting for TC 3.
Thanks for the help !!

jano:
Follow up - and a little off topic, but may be of interest for somebody:
I have tried several other linux distros with the same notebook:
* DSL doesn't boot (from live PC or pendrive)
* Antix 8.2 doesn't boot (from live PC)
* Puppy linux 4.3.1 doesn't boot either (from live PC or pendrive)
* A Puppy linux derivate (acer-puppy) does boot and finds and mounts the hard disk - but I don't like it
So I'll wait for TC 3  ;)

jano:
Excuse my ignorance but there is something I don't understand : if the chipset is unsupported, how come the live CD, network, usb, etc does work? It seems that the only thing unsupported is the hard disk (maybe the sound also, but I haven't checked that) / as a matter of fact I'm posting from the netbook !
I have attached the output of dmesg (just in case)

Yet another probably stupid question, but I'm a newbie: as I've mentioned in the previous post, a puppy linux derivative, acer-puppy seems to work OK. Would it be possible to use acer-puppy's kernel (or whatever makes it work with my netbook) and merge it - use it in tinycore ?

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