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robcar

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Registered: 2014-03-20

Posts: 13

Disk not visible in cooking

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):

[c]lspci -nnvv[/c]

What I see on 4.0, that I don't see in cooking, is that it says:

[c]Kernel driver in use: VIA_IDE[/c]

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

[c]Kernel modules: via-agp[/c]

which is not present into cooking

Ceel

Administrator

Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 1,424

Re: Disk not visible in cooking

Hello robcarm,

Some modules were missing for IDE drives in the kernel in Cooking.

Try the Rolling ISO and tell us.

robcar

Member

Registered: 2014-03-20

Posts: 13

Re: Disk not visible in cooking

Ok, thanks.

I downloaded and tried the Rolling ISO but when the desktop appears instead of text menus I see squares!

[c]$ export...
LANG='POSIX'
LC_ALL='POSIX'[/c]
[attachment=28671,1370]

robcar

Member

Registered: 2014-03-20

Posts: 13

Re: Disk not visible in cooking

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.

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Disk not visible in cooking

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:

[c]# tazpkg recharge[/c]

[c]# tazpkg -gi pango --forced[/c]

Logout/into xsession

If pango is still broken run the post_install command:

[c]# /usr/bin/pango-querymodules > /etc/pango/pango.modules[/c]

Logout/into xsession

robcar

Member

Registered: 2014-03-20

Posts: 13

Re: Disk not visible in cooking

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

robcar

Member

Registered: 2014-03-20

Posts: 13

Re: Disk not visible in cooking

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.

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Disk not visible in cooking

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:

[c]lspci -vvnn[/c]

[c]fdisk -l[/c]

[c]cat /boot/grub/menu.lst[/c]

Guest

Guest

Re: Disk not visible in cooking

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.)