TC3.3 HDD Installation

[michel875]

Hello@all
I tried to install tc on my computer by using your How To http://www.tinycorelinux.com/install.html .
It was not easy because I use a german Keyboard and there´s a lot of Buttons different to the US Keyboard.
As I tried grub it show me the same things like the pictures in this How To
but as i tried to boot the first time from my HDD it show me this Message:

Kernel panic-not syncing:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (8,3)
Kernel /boot/bzImage quiet
[Linux-bzImage,setup=0x2e00, size 0x22d440]

What does it mean?
Could somebody help me?
Thank You!
Michael

[gutmensch]

hey michael!

there seems to be something wrong with the files copied to your hdd. please verify that the files bzImage and tinycore.gz have the same hash on your hdd like they have here in the according .md5.txt files here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/3.x/release/distribution_files/. you can do that by running

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$ md5sum /mnt/hda1/boot/bzImage
$ md5sum /mnt/hda1/boot/tinycore.gz
replace /mnt/hda1 with your hdd, e.g. /mnt/hdb2, /mnt/sda1, etc.
in grub you can also use

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grub> find /boot/bzImage
to verify you're operating on the right hdd, e.g. (hd0,0). is your hdd an usb drive? did you maybe forgot the "-p" parameter for cp, which is essential? what filesystem is on your hdd?

best regards,
robert

[jerrylamos]

I'm having good luck with tinycore 3.3 on my four test pc's.  They are all multiboot with several Ubuntu linux levels.  A separate partition is not necessary since tinycore runs fine on a partition that already has Ubuntu in it, and Ubuntu uses grub2 lately so that can be used to boot tinycore also.  If you don't have a linux on the hard drive, the Ubuntu CD live can put grub2 on the hard drive.  That's a bit more detail.

Download tinycoe 3.3 iso
extracted the /boot directory which included bzImage and tinycore.gz.  On Ubuntu, I used the Places browser and right clicked on the .iso file, and mounted it to copy the images.

made a directory
sudo mkdir  /tinycore
in the root of the Ubuntu I was running.  Also
sudo mkdir /tinycore/boot
sudo mkdir/tinycore/tce
sudo mkdir/tinycore/tce/optional
sudo touch /tinycore/tce/mydata.tgz
copied tinycore.gz and bzImage into /tinycore/boot.  I didn't need the isolinux since the pc's were booting with grub2.  Browse and make sure the files are O.K. example
ls -l /tinycore/boot

Made an entry for grub2 for tinycore:
sudo gedit /etc/grub.d/06_custom
#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
menuentry 'TinyCore on Ubuntu 10.04' {
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /tinycore/boot/bzImage root=/dev/sda1 tce=hda1/tinycore/tce quiet
initrd /tinycore/boot/tinycore.gz
}
save
quit
sudo chmod 777 /etc/grub.d/06_custom
which makes the file executable.
sudo update-grub

Do note you can put tinycore in other directories.  On one of my pc's it's on hda14.

*****  Very key point!
Ubuntu calls the hard drive partition sda1.  Tiny core didn't recognize that and wouldn't backup.
Tiny core calls the hard drive partition hda1.  Took me a while to find that in the tinycore forums.  Oh, yes, on one of the pc's tinycore called it sda1.  They are all ata drives.  Go figure.

Boot tinycore and try Backup on the tools menus.  If it works you're golden.

Now I do have minefield internet browser up and running with flashplayer 10 video but that's another topic.

Good luck, Jerry