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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: pentalive on March 12, 2009, 05:28:07 PM

Title: Persistance evades me still
Post by: pentalive on March 12, 2009, 05:28:07 PM: Ok, I have read the "Tiny Core Concepts" and tried lots of stuff

First am I doing it right? I have a 2GB thumb drive dedicated to TCL. I have created two partitions on that drive SDB1 and SDB2. I can mount them both. They are both formatted ext3.

SDB1 is 100mb, SDB2 is the remainder 1900 somthing mb.

I have installed per instructions.

First desired task TCE persistance... Failed
I have tried setting bootcodes: tce=sdb2 , tce=\mnt\sdb2, tce=\dev\sdb2
I have even tried tcd=sdb1

Second task Home directory persistance.. Failed too.
pretty much the same story only home=....

BTW one only has to edit the /mnt/sdb1/boot/grub/menu.lst file to effect change? I have been downloading and re-running GRUB each time.
Title: Re: Persistance evades me still
Post by: roberts on March 12, 2009, 06:30:24 PM: Pendrives are slow to register, try adding waitusb=5 to your boot options.
Title: Re: Persistance evades me still
Post by: pentalive on March 12, 2009, 06:35:59 PM: Ok, I will try that - does it matter that TCL boots and I get to the desktop?
Title: Re: Persistance evades me still
Post by: pentalive on March 12, 2009, 07:09:51 PM: Quote from: roberts on March 12, 2009, 06:30:24 PM
Pendrives are slow to register, try adding waitusb=5 to your boot options.

Should I make SDB1 the only partition (doe parted work here?)
Title: Re: Persistance evades me still
Post by: pentalive on March 12, 2009, 07:10:36 PM: Here goes,

Change made, installed opera and gcc compiler... rebooting next.
Title: Re: Persistance evades me still
Post by: pentalive on March 12, 2009, 08:20:36 PM: Yes. The waitusb=5 bootcode seems to have worked.
Title: Re: Persistance evades me still
Post by: tobiaus on March 13, 2009, 12:07:39 AM: Quote from: pentalive on March 12, 2009, 08:20:36 PM
Yes. The waitusb=5 bootcode seems to have worked.

i suppose it would be wrong to suggest (i'm talking to roberts and the rest of the crew here pent, so ignore me if this makes no sense) that waitusb=5 be on unless you turn it off with waitusb=0, right? it's just that it seems to help so many people to have it on, and if you want that extra 5 seconds, you could always use waitusb=0 as a tweak for those that know it. no i know, it sounds too windows-like, forget i mentioned it.
Title: Re: Persistance evades me still
Post by: curaga on March 13, 2009, 12:56:36 PM: Not all usb sticks are slow, and people booting from CD, HD, SSD or other way would certainly not appreciate an extra 5 sec delay.. But I'm sure you already knew that, so I'll go read the other new topics for today now :)
Title: Re: Persistance evades me still
Post by: thane on May 01, 2009, 03:41:25 AM: [Bump] I'm actually thinking of downloading an ISO editor and taking a shot at hacking in the waitusb=5 bootcode, since my usb stick needs it. That way I can resume my Windows habit of pushing a button and going to grab a beer. I'm still amazed though that TCL will actually be done booting when I get back.
Title: Re: Persistance evades me still
Post by: curaga on May 01, 2009, 04:01:55 AM: If you have TC installed to an usb stick, the files will be extracted there, no need for an ISO editor. Depending on how you installed the location and name of the bootloader config file can vary.
Title: Re: Persistance evades me still
Post by: thane on May 01, 2009, 02:43:42 PM: Sorry, I wasn't clear. I'm booting off a read-only CD and saving to the USB stick. The BIOS doesn't allow boots from USB and of course I can't modify the ISO after it's burned to CD. I was thinking of trying to edit the ISO (I think you suggested that) on the Windows box I use for downloads, before burning it to CD. Never tried that before so I'm not even sure it's do-able or worth doing. Just an idea.