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Started 10 years ago by robcar
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Hello,
I was thinking to use slitaz as a distro to replace XP embedded in a bunch of thin clients that we have.
It's one of the few distros that fits right into their tiny 512MB flash drives.

I tried 4.0 stable, which was fine, apart from the fact that it didn't have the automount feature of USB drives under /media; then I tried the last cooking, but the flash IDE drive isn't visible while under 4.0 was visible and I managed to install slitaz onto it.

So I ran on both 4.0 and cooking (output attached):
lspci -nnvv
What I see on 4.0, that I don't see in cooking, is that it says:
Kernel driver in use: VIA_IDE

So I guess that's the feature missing in the kernel for cooking that would let me see the flash drive; I tried to compile the kernel adding that option, but I think I messed up something...
Wouldn't someone be so kind to add VIA_IDE to the kernel for me in a future build of cooking?

Hey, at last that's my analysis of the problem; if someone sees something else in the attachments please let me know.
thanks.

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rob

EDIT
In the working 4.0 I also see
Kernel modules: via-agp
which is not present into cooking
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lspci-slitaz40.txt (11 KB, 583 downloads) 10 years old
lspci-cooking.txt (10.8 KB, 749 downloads) 10 years old
Posted 10 years ago #
Ceel

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Hello robcarm,

Some modules were missing for IDE drives in the kernel in Cooking.
Try the Rolling ISO and tell us.

Posted 10 years ago #
robcar

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Ok, thanks.
I downloaded and tried the Rolling ISO but when the desktop appears instead of text menus I see squares!
```
$ export...
LANG='POSIX'
LC_ALL='POSIX'
```
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Posted 10 years ago #
robcar

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I booted with slitaz stable and I see the same 'POSIX' entries in locale, so I don't know why for this rolling the graphical session is like this.

Posted 10 years ago #
mojo

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Rolling isos built on 3/30 have broken pango post_install
http://cook.slitaz.org/cookiso.cgi?distro=rolling-core-4in1
Installing package: pango-1.30.1.tazpkg/usr/bin/tazpkg: line 60: can't create /etc/pango/pango.modules: nonexistent directory
[ Done ]

pango: fix post_install
http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/63198d8bd812

See if installing new pango restores text to menus:
# tazpkg recharge
# tazpkg -gi pango --forced
Logout/into xsession

If pango is still broken run the post_install command:
# /usr/bin/pango-querymodules > /etc/pango/pango.modules
Logout/into xsession

Posted 10 years ago #
robcar

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Thanks mojo, reinstalling pango (without the need to post_install) did the trick. I now have menus back.

Posted 10 years ago #
robcar

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Mmm still problems; it seems I cannot install rolling 2 Apr onto IDE flash drive. Installation goes fine and I make sure to check also bootloader, but then, when I reboot, grub starts but throws error like it cannot find hd...
I noticed that with stable the flash drive was seen as /dev/hda1 (and I succeeded to install and boot it), while now it is /dev/sdb1, don't know if it is related to the problems I have.

Posted 10 years ago #
mojo

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Either the grub menu.lst is mis-configured or on a full install the hardware driver required by your IDE interface is not built into the kernel.
Is this a multi-boot install where you added stanza to existing grub menu.lst or a clean drive install where tazinst installed grub and configured the menu.lst.
Boot into the live cd,post output:
lspci -vvnn
fdisk -l
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst

Posted 10 years ago #
Anonymous

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Sometimes when I install Linux to USB-HDD/pendrives/SD/SDHC cards, I have to change the grub menu.lst/menu.cfg & /etc/fstab before rebooting.
(To do this, change into a VT & check/make the changes neccessary.)

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