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Tiny Core Base => CorePlus => Topic started by: micka on January 27, 2018, 03:13:46 AM

Title: [Newbie] - TC freeze at boot
Post by: micka on January 27, 2018, 03:13:46 AM

Hi !

Want to give a try to TC on my ASUS X205TA.

After downloading "TinyCore-current.iso" and "burn it" on a usb stick (unetbootin), nothing happen at startup :o

I noticed that TC is not like other distrib, and also that ASUS X205TA need a "special" 32bits boot file :
https://openclassrooms.com/forum/sujet/guide-installer-linux-sur-asus-x205ta

So I create /efi/boot/bootia32.efi and now I have a grub> command line at boot :)

I type :
1. set root=(hd0,1) // My disk and partition file where TC is installed by unetbootin
2. linux /ubnkernel
3. initrd /ubninit
4. boot

TC boot and after few seconds, it freeze :
(https://image.noelshack.com/minis/2018/04/6/1517040565-img-20180127-081040.png) (https://www.noelshack.com/2018-04-6-1517040565-img-20180127-081040.jpg)

What I'm I doing wrong ?

Thx for your help.
 ;)

Title: Re: [Newbie] - TC freeze at boot
Post by: curaga on January 27, 2018, 04:27:59 AM

It does not look frozen, it looks like a normal text boot with verbose messages. Try pressing enter.

Title: Re: [Newbie] - TC freeze at boot
Post by: micka on January 27, 2018, 07:39:41 AM

Nothing happen when pressing enter or typing something.

Just like if there is no keyboard.

Only thing that "doing something" is when I remove/insert the usb stick. It prints a dmesg like :

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usb 1-2.2: USB disconnect, device number 4

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usb 1-2.2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd .....

Title: Re: [Newbie] - TC freeze at boot
Post by: micka on January 27, 2018, 07:45:48 AM

Just tried to connect an external usb keyboard.

It's recognise and when pressing enter, I got a prompt  (tc@box:~$) :)

Seems the problem is that TC don't recognise the ASUS X205TA keyboard...

Someone can help on this ?

Title: Re: [Newbie] - TC freeze at boot
Post by: micka on January 27, 2018, 01:04:52 PM

Problem with ASUS X205TA keyboard driver.

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8734321

How can I apply it in TC ?

Title: Re: [Newbie] - TC freeze at boot
Post by: Juanito on January 28, 2018, 01:29:10 AM

You could set up the tinycore kernel source, apply the patch, recompile the kernel and remaster to include the patched driver in rootfs.gz or core.gz

Title: Re: [Newbie] - TC freeze at boot
Post by: curaga on January 28, 2018, 04:11:50 AM

That patch is so old, it's already included in both tc 8.x and 9.x kernels. Please check if hid_asus is listed in lsmod output; if not, run "sudo modprobe hid_asus".

Title: Re: [Newbie] - TC freeze at boot
Post by: micka on January 29, 2018, 12:36:22 PM

hid_asus not listed in lsmod.

I tried sudo modprobe hid_asus :

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modprobe: module hid_asus not found in modules.dep
How can I add it ?

Thx

Title: Re: [Newbie] - TC freeze at boot
Post by: micka on January 29, 2018, 01:09:16 PM

Tried that : https://github.com/vlasenko/hid-asus-dkms#asus-hid-fte100-dkms-driver (https://github.com/vlasenko/hid-asus-dkms#asus-hid-fte100-dkms-driver)
but :

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dkms not found, aborting...

Title: Re: [Newbie] - TC freeze at boot
Post by: micka on January 29, 2018, 01:19:25 PM

Checking modules.dep return "nothing" :

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cat /lib/modules/4.8.17-tinycore/modules.dep | grep hid_asus
and in kernel/drivers/hid,

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ls | grep asus return "nothing"


Seems that patch has been included in Kernel version 4.10 or later... (https://github.com/vlasenko/hid-asus-dkms (https://github.com/vlasenko/hid-asus-dkms))

Title: Re: [Newbie] - TC freeze at boot
Post by: micka on January 29, 2018, 01:23:25 PM

Juanito, how can I do that (tutorial) ?

Sounds fun  :D

Title: Re: [Newbie] - TC freeze at boot
Post by: Juanito on January 30, 2018, 03:12:24 AM

That's a "-" not an"_" - using corepure64 9.0alpha2:

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$ cat /lib/modules/*/modules.dep | grep hid-a
kernel/drivers/hid/hid-aureal.ko.gz:
kernel/drivers/hid/hid-axff.ko.gz: kernel/drivers/input/ff-memless.ko.gz
kernel/drivers/hid/hid-a4tech.ko.gz:
kernel/drivers/hid/hid-appleir.ko.gz:
kernel/drivers/hid/hid-alps.ko.gz:
kernel/drivers/hid/hid-asus.ko.gz:
kernel/drivers/hid/hid-accutouch.ko.gz:
kernel/drivers/hid/hid-apple.ko.gz:


Title: Re: [Newbie] - TC freeze at boot
Post by: micka on January 30, 2018, 07:34:51 AM

First of all, thanks for your attention  ;)

On CorePlus and TinyCore 8.x, no hid-asus nor hid_asus.

Tried corepure64 9.0alpha2 and effectively hid-asus is present.

As suggested by curaga, at startup, no hid_asus in

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lsmod | grep asus

So, I run

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sudo modprobe hid_asusand

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sudo modprobe hid-asus
Both command return nothing and my keyboard still not recognize.


When I check

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dmesg | grep asus
No message on th fact that hid-asus or hid_asus was loaded.

What am I doing wrong ?

Title: Re: [Newbie] - TC freeze at boot
Post by: Juanito on January 30, 2018, 07:40:23 AM

'seems to work for me:

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$ sudo modprobe hid-asus
$ lsmod | grep hid
hid_asus               12288  0


Title: Re: [Newbie] - TC freeze at boot
Post by: micka on January 30, 2018, 07:50:34 AM

Sorry, YES Juanito, I got this too...

But my keyboard still not be recognized... and nothing in dmesg...

Title: Re: [Newbie] - TC freeze at boot
Post by: micka on January 30, 2018, 08:09:24 AM

For info, I just tried a live Debian kernel 4.9.0-4-amd64 and keyboard ok

Title: Re: [Newbie] - TC freeze at boot
Post by: PDP-8 on March 14, 2018, 04:32:38 AM

Ok, so TC's not debian, but have you tried using any of these boot parameters alone or together temporarily (ie, pressing TAB at the initial boot to change / add them...

nolapic     <--- usually my first light duty option
noapic
noacpi     <----- overkill usually.  Not recommended unless you KNOW you need it.

acpi_os=       <--- yep, nothing after the = sign

acpi_os=\"Linux\"      <----  yep, all that escaping and quotes are in the proper place...

(to see if the acpi_os Linux is accepted, also use "syslog" as a boot parameter too and look at /var/log/message


There are many more generic linux options you can try.  Those above are my most go-to options for cranky hardware.  Just throwing this out in case it helps. 

Title: Re: [Newbie] - TC freeze at boot
Post by: PDP-8 on March 15, 2018, 04:49:43 AM

My apologies for some errors here...

I inadvertently dropped the "i" from the acpi lines.  Thus one of the above lines should read:

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acpi_osi=
And, as tested again with TC none of that fancy escaping is needed either if you add a specific osi like:

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acpi_osi=Linux
And if you also use the syslog kernel parameter at boot time, the results can be found in /var/log/messages.  I left off the trailing s in the filename.

Sorry about that - had to clean it up.  I'll direct a generic query about this in a different thread....