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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: fuf on September 15, 2013, 10:59:46 AM

Title: Booting from USB - Stuck at command line
Post by: fuf on September 15, 2013, 10:59:46 AM

Hello,

I used unetbootin to create a bootable USB stick with CorePlus on.

The boot menu gives me a choice of 7 or 8 window managers. Whichever one I choose the same thing happens. Things seem to be loading, some text scrolls by very fast, but then the screen switches to a command prompt:

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Core is distributed with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
www.tinycorelinux.com

tc@box:~$

I read something about running 'tinycore xsetup', but when I try that I just get:

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-sh: tinycore: not found

Any ideas? I'm afraid I'm fairly new to all this.

For reference, I can boot into Puppy Linux and Damn Small Linux without any problems.

Title: Re: Booting from USB - Stuck at command line
Post by: gerald_clark on September 15, 2013, 11:06:08 AM

Copy the CorePlus ISO directly to the USB stick. Do not use unetbootin.

Title: Re: Booting from USB - Stuck at command line
Post by: fuf on September 15, 2013, 11:17:10 AM

Thanks for the reply.

I wasn't sure what you meant so I tried two things:
1. Copied literally just the .iso file onto the USB stick
2. Mounted the .iso and copied the three directories onto the USB stick (boot, [BOOT], and cde)

Both times I just got:
"This is not a bootable disk"

edit: found this thread and presumably I need to use grub4dos to create a bootable usb. I'll try that and report back:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=10430.0

Title: Re: Booting from USB - Stuck at command line
Post by: gerald_clark on September 15, 2013, 11:56:19 AM

dd if=the.iso of=/dev/sdx

Title: Re: Booting from USB - Stuck at command line
Post by: fuf on September 15, 2013, 12:28:13 PM

Thank you. That worked. :)

(I was getting very confused trying to understand that grub4dos stuff)

Title: Re: Booting from USB - Stuck at command line
Post by: bmarkus on September 15, 2013, 01:20:22 PM

Or use the official USB installer:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/core2usb/

Title: Re: Booting from USB - Stuck at command line
Post by: mocore on September 16, 2013, 04:40:05 PM

Quote from: fuf on September 15, 2013, 12:28:13 PM

Thank you. That worked. :)

(I was getting very confused trying to understand that grub4dos stuff)

fyi
grub4dos is just one of the  #bootloaders (http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:start#bootloaders)
you could install/use 
to get you os  starting up

i think the.iso uses syslinux boot loader

& this guide was able help me make a little more sense of grub4dos and all this boot loader lark
http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/Grub4dos.htm