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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: garrulo74 on June 11, 2011, 03:04:37 PM

Title: Autoboot from usb pendrive
Post by: garrulo74 on June 11, 2011, 03:04:37 PM

Hi.
Im booting Tc3.6 from an USb pendrive and everything seems to run fine.
but I want to use that machine as a small home server without keyboard, screen.. and here is the problem: When TC boot it requeries to press enter to go ahead with the boot procces ( the screen with the F2, F3.. options and the boot: text).
In other distros this is automatic with a coutndown to continue with the default boot process
¿can I modify this behaviour of the boot to avoid this problem?
Hope you understand what im talking about, my english is very poor.
Thank you.

Title: Re: Autoboot from usb pendrive
Post by: bmarkus on June 11, 2011, 03:41:22 PM

Try unetbootin to install TC from the ISO file. By default it installs a bootloader working as you need. In general it is just a question of bootloader configuration and for sure you can reach the same with nearly any of them.

Title: Re: Autoboot from usb pendrive
Post by: garrulo74 on June 11, 2011, 04:55:48 PM

for some unknow reason that old machine does not recognice  pendrives created using unetbootin so I used Usb universal installer.
But your answer gives me the clue to find to solution: I have compared the isolinux.cfg file from  TC with other created with unetbootin and voila!  in the file of TC pendrive  timeout was set to 300 sec!!!
fixed it and now everithing is OK
Thank you

Title: Re: Autoboot from usb pendrive
Post by: Rich on June 11, 2011, 05:33:41 PM

Hi garrulo74
Actually 300 means 30 seconds. The timeout is in 1/10 second increments.

Title: Re: Autoboot from usb pendrive
Post by: coreplayer2 on June 13, 2011, 01:23:50 PM

Just install grub4dos to the usb drive and let the installer write the mbr then set your parameters for boot if the defaults are not exactly as desired.  definitely you'll have every possible option available to you and it's extremely reliable. 

grub4dos doesn't just mean for dos,  it should be called grub4all   ;D

Title: Re: Autoboot from usb pendrive
Post by: glene77is on June 13, 2011, 08:49:07 PM

Quote from: garrulo74 on June 11, 2011, 03:04:37 PM

Im booting Tc3.6 from an USb pendrive and everything seems to run fine.

Garrulo,
Your English is better than my Spanish.
So, you are booting from a USB pendrive.
Is this a "frugal" install ?
That is,  a Live-USB with a the configs and extension (applications) saved to a hosting HardDrive ?

If, in fact, you are truly running on the USB pendrive, ONLY, then please post your boot-code.
I have not been able to get my TCL to run ONLY on the USB pendrive. 

This is the boot-code I have used, with only partial success: 

### TinyCore : several options for testing per RICH  TCL forum #########################

title ---{ TEST : TinyCore  RICH TCL forum ( sda2/tce )

   root (hd0,0)

   kernel   /tc-core/bzImage   quiet   waitusb=10:UUID="60abc2ba-477e-43af-ae8a-7affc307fa31"   tce=UUID="8f2b131a-3293-49c5-83b0-d443ea923eb6"

   initrd  /tc-core/tinycore.gz

###

Buena Suerte,
glene77is