Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: cpcnw on September 22, 2012, 02:07:43 PM
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Yep, just booted off USB CD and gparted a CF card as ext2 - shows up as /dev/sda1 and I can mount it and read / write to it under gparted.
Next up TCL+ and no sign of /dev/sda1
Tried mounting all /dev/sdx available but its like it doesnt even exist?
What to try next?
Thanks!
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You need to create a filesystem on the partition before you can use it
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Yup formated it to ext2 using gparted :)
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You may need to use the waitusb=5 boot option.
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pressed tab at menu and appended waitusb=10
this managed to get me into the gui this time [without this just cli]
however the installer shows no drives to install to?
Yet /dev/sda1 is detected and available in gparted?
Its a quirky bios on a 2005 DT166 thin client
Any suggestions?
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Do you have a tce directory on that CF ?
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No, was hoping to install to it from the gui ....
just loaded lshw and nothing shows up for the CF - its weird ...
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You're not clear. Do you mean gparted the app, from TC, or gparted live, the distro?
If the latter, how is the CF connected?
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Sorry - yes, gparted the live linux distro booted from CD - it sees the CF and parted it and formatted it fine.
The CF card is connected via a 44? pin convertor and cable
The box is this one ;
http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/DT166/index.shtml
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Most likely CF card is not partitioned
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Not partitioned - Not sure what you mean?
gparted live cd created a ext2 primary partition and formatted it. I then logged in at console from gparted live cd, mounted it, created some files etc - all good :)
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Can you share fdisk output?
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Thanks for replies - just booted Puppy 5.8.1? and it too also sees CF as ext2 part on /dev/sda1 and I can mount read write it.
fdisk -l shows all info about it under puppy.
YEsterday under TC+ fdisk -l did not show anything :(
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And dmesg, from both distros.
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Ah ok - will have to come back to this ... thanks for replies so far ...
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Dont flame me - I have only just come back to this - and have already been told off for cross posting on my other thread which actually led to my creating this one - a more narrowly defined single issue i.e. disc controller not being recognised in tc!
Puppy picks up the CF drive / adapter like this;
ata1.00: CFA: CF Card, Ver5.04, max UDMA/100
ata1.00: 7454160 sectors, multi 1: LBA
ata1.00: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA CF Card Ver5 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 7454160 512-byte logical blocks: (3.81 GB/3.55 GiB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Wheres as there is no such entry in tc
Both dmesg posted here http://www.custompc.plus.com/tc/
Can I just load at boot a generic scsi module onto the CF card - its recognised if I use
a USB>CF adapter under my full tc+ laptop desktop
Any suggestions help really appreciated!
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The driver for the IDE chip you have there is unstable, so we have it disabled.
See these threads:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,11622.msg61553.html
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12883.msg73842.html
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Thanks curaga - as an obv n00b - would you say that getting this working is beyond my skill set currently lol!