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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: theYinYeti on June 16, 2014, 08:44:45 AM

Title: TC hangs while fstab gets created, on Toshiba Sat Pro C50
Post by: theYinYeti on June 16, 2014, 08:44:45 AM

Hi, I have Win7 installed on this GPT-formated Toshiba Satellite Pro C50. I'd rather use TinyCore, which I always have available on my MBR-formated FAT32 USB thumb-drive. But I have zero experience with such modern hardware...

Booting the USB drive works fine, and I get my Grub2 menu. From there, I launch TinyCore, the same way I always do.
Messages flash by, very fast, and I barely have time to see there's a bad kernel error at some point, but still boot goes on, until the line where it says that disks are being analysed in order to create fstab.
Then, nothing more happens. If I do Alt+SysRq+E, though, I am allowed to log in as user tc, but no hard-disk or USB partition has been mounted. I could see, however, that "fdisk -l" output seems sane...

Any idea what kernel boot option I could try to tame this laptop?

Title: Re: TC hangs while fstab gets created, on Toshiba Sat Pro C50
Post by: curaga on June 16, 2014, 09:14:26 AM

"debug pause" and you will be able to scroll to the kernel messages (shift-pgup).

Title: Re: TC hangs while fstab gets created, on Toshiba Sat Pro C50
Post by: Juanito on June 16, 2014, 09:20:37 AM

If the hd is gpt formatted, it could be that uefi boot is the default and the machine is attempting a pseudo bios boot from your usb stick?

What version of tc are you using?

Title: Re: TC hangs while fstab gets created, on Toshiba Sat Pro C50
Post by: theYinYeti on June 16, 2014, 09:37:37 AM

Hi Juanito! The TC version is the latest of the 4.7 branch because there is still software that I need, that is missing from TC5, for now.

I changed my search terms a bit, and managed to find this:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,15882.msg93633.html#msg93633
It solves the issue: no kernel panic, and normal boot up to the graphical desktop, including fstab generation :-)

However, eth0 is not seen (I only have "lo" interface), and display is lagging (probably vesa) despite having loaded the xorg drivers... TC 4.7 is getting too old, I guess...
Well, I suppose the issue is solved nonetheless.

Title: Re: TC hangs while fstab gets created, on Toshiba Sat Pro C50
Post by: Juanito on June 16, 2014, 09:42:15 AM

Quote from: theYinYeti on June 16, 2014, 09:37:37 AM

..because there is still software that I need, that is missing from TC5, for now.

Once tested on tc-5.x and confirmed working, it can be copied over  :)

Title: Re: TC hangs while fstab gets created, on Toshiba Sat Pro C50
Post by: coreplayer2 on June 16, 2014, 08:05:51 PM

theYinYeti. You need to try tc5.3 with 3.8.13 kernel on that new hardware.

I think you'll find your USB and Ethernet supported



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