Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: ezee on June 29, 2010, 06:29:53 PM
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i installed TC per the instructions as a vm in vmware player. works great...
where did all the stuff in /boot go that was made during the install? I'm trying to customize my grub splash screen...can't find /boot anywhere
do I need to create a sep partition for /boot in order to access it from inside tc?
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Using terminal or a file manager go to /mnt/
In there you hard drive should be listed :)
For example on my computer I type the following commands into terminal
cd /mnt/
This makes the terminal travel to the mnt directory
mnt stands for mount. Although it seems like this should be obvious it took me a while to figure this out. :D
Then I list all avaliable devices in the mnt directory using this command.
ls -a
The Terminal typically spits back
hdc(cdrom)
hda1(my hard drive)
You then type in "cd <foldername>" to travel iinto the folder.
:D So in my case I type in the following.
cd hda1
Then I type in this to list all of the follows on my hard drive
ls -a
I again get all the files and folders I can view
My terminal spits back
boot
tce
From their you can drob a .xpm splash image into /mnt/hda1/boot/grub
and edit the menu.lst with with vi
If your hard drives name is hda1 Here is one line that will travel to /mnt/hda1 and list all the folders and files in mnt/hda1/
cd /mnt/hda1/;ls -a
I hope that helps ??? If not feel free to ask another question ;D
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yep...there it is!
is that normal to put /boot inside /mnt like that, or is it a tc thing?
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I'm afraid I felt the urge to add a few small points as clarification to the otherwise obviously helpful explanation provided by limeblack:
- The '/mnt' directory contains the so called mount points. This is a convention found in many other Linux distributions, but IIRC not guaranteed to be used by all (e.g. another "popular choice" is '/media')
- There can be more attached storage devices than currently mounted ones:
- The '/etc/fstab' file contains entries for all recognised devices (and some more). To show just the identified storage devices one could use the grep '^/dev/' /etc/fstab command.
- The '/etc/mtab' file contains the entries of all currently mounted devices. To show just the currently mounted storage devices one could use the grep ' /mnt/' /etc/mtab command.
- The (raw) storage devices have "names" like '/dev/fd0' (for a floppy disk), '/dev/hdc' (for a IDE CD-ROM), '/dev/hda1' (for a partition on a P-ATA hard disk), '/dev/sr0' (for a SATA CD-ROM), etc. When the devices are "recognised" (e.g. at boot time or during insertion of a USB stick) TC / MC will create the respective mount point directory in '/mnt' (via the '/usr/sbin/rebuildfstab' script). But it will not directly mount the device to it's mount point. There is one exception of this rule: if the device contains the 'tce' directory used for persistence the device will get mounted automatically.
- The minimal set of file systems supported by "plain" TC / MC contains: EXT2, EXT3 (and EXT4 since TC 3.x), ISO9660, FAT, VFAT, and some more. Other frequently used one like NTFS, CIFS, NFS are available via extensions.
So if the content of a storage device is not immediately available via '/mnt/...' one will need to check that the device is mounted and that the file system in question is supported (which might require the installation of an extension as precondition).
Edit: I guess the '/boot' directory is in the "root" of your storage device (e.g. '/mnt/hda1/boot'). It is indeed a widely used convention to put the kernel (i.e. 'bzImage') and the initrd (i.e. 'tinycore.gz') into such a '/boot' directory on a disk. But this is not mandatory so other options exist, as long as the boot loader (e.g. GRUB) is aware of where to find those files.