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Tiny Core Base => TCB Talk => Topic started by: digidax on February 06, 2014, 09:14:42 AM

Title: [Solved] First start after Frugal Install hangs
Post by: digidax on February 06, 2014, 09:14:42 AM

Hello,

I have tried to do a frugal installation, followed by http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/install.html (http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/install.html)
The setup was successful finished, after shutdown and removing the CD-ROM the system boots from the SATA disk, shows SYSLINUX 4.05 by ... then reboot and again and again.

Have insert the CD-ROM and boot frim CD-Rom TinyCore. Using the mount toll and do the mount for sda1.

ls /mnt/sda1/tce shows:
boot/
optional/
mydata.tgz
onboot.lst

ls /mnt/sda1/tce/boot shows:
extlinux/
core.gz
vmlinuz

ls /mnt/sda1/tce/boot/extlinux shows:
extlinux.conf
ldlinux.sys

Some stuff of extlinux.conf:
...
KERNEL /tce/boot/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/tce/boot/core.gz quiet vga=795 noicons lang=de_DE.UTF-8 waitusb=5:UUID="....." tce=UUID="......"

What's going wrong?
Hardware: INtel ATOM D2500 with 4 GB RAM, Harddisk: Seagate SATA 120 GB

# fdisk -l
/dev/sda1 Bootflag is set

75 GB of 120 GB used.

best regards
Frank

Title: Re: First start after Frugal Install hangs
Post by: curaga on February 06, 2014, 09:16:28 AM

Are you sure you don't see any messages from the kernel? If so, it appears extlinux dislikes your hw, and you should try another bootloader like grub.

Title: Re: First start after Frugal Install hangs
Post by: digidax on February 06, 2014, 09:28:29 AM

No, nothing. Get only that line (see please attached image).

Is there a HowTo for installing grub? I have a lot of CentOS machines running on this hardware, booted by grub.

best regards and thanks for the fast reply,
Frank

Title: [Solved] Re: First start after Frugal Install hangs
Post by: digidax on February 06, 2014, 01:37:53 PM

Thanks for the hint with the bootloader, have now Grub in use and it works great for the Intel Atom Board.

Thanks, Frank