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PaulH · 12-22-2009, 08:02 PM

First off I must say how nice the Beta is. Wow, graphics are very, very, nice and the system is quite quick.

Tried the Acorn Beta1 on my old PIII and it worked fine, same with my dual core Dell; however, with my Toshiba L300D which is dual Athlon and my desktop which is dual intel I get:

/initrd/bin/ash:can't access tty, job control turned off.

Both Toshiba and desktop are SATA.

Please help as I would love to play around with TinyMe Beta so that I will be prepared for the full release. I really want to dual boot my Toshiba with TinyMe as it currently is Vista and some other Linux distro.

I loved the earlier versions of TinyMe and I am looking forward to the final release!

Thank you,

Paul

***KDulcimer*** · 12-23-2009, 06:10 AM

Sounds like the drives just don't want to read the CD. I worked in a computer lab and we got this all the time, even between optical drives which were the same make and model.

I never use CDs anymore. I use unetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) to take the ISO and put it on my USB drive. It's a lot faster booting up, too. ;-)

***gettinther*** · 12-23-2009, 10:11 AM

When starting the livecd, press the escape key after making your selection in grub to see the log. Can you take a picture of it and post a link to it? There are a few site where you can upload pics if you can't here (like http://photobucket.com/).

I would very much appreciate if you could help me debug this. Did you try to add the noscsi cheatcode?

PaulH · 12-23-2009, 12:59 PM

Thank you for looking into this. I will get the images for you.

On a side not I noticed that it was the older 586 release of the Beta1 that worked on my old Dell PIII. The newer 686 Beta1 release will not work on the PIII (not sure if it was supposed to or not).

I'll finish my morning coffee and fire up the Toshiba to get the info you are looking for. I'll follow up with the desktop and give you the hardware list.

Paul

PaulH · 12-23-2009, 03:14 PM

Here are the pictures of the boot log on the Toshiba L300D.

No cheat codes, just let it load itself.

http://s949.photobucket.com/albums/ad339/PaulH_01/

Paul

***KDulcimer*** · 12-23-2009, 04:41 PM

Are you sure you aren't confusing the TinyMe and Unity releases? I've only released one Beta 1, and it's i586.

PaulH · 12-23-2009, 05:09 PM

I hope not KD. Man I better not have pulled a Homer!

The disk is 199megs, that is the correct size for your TinyMe-2010-Acorn-Beta-1 correct?

Works "out of the box" on my Dell Latitude D630 (Duo Centrino) and works on my old Dell C600/500 (PIII) with "noscsi" and a little work to select the correct video card.

Thanks,

Paul

***KDulcimer*** · 12-23-2009, 06:29 PM

Can you check the md5sum? http://tinymelinux.com/doku.php/test:download

PaulH · 12-23-2009, 11:18 PM

Here you go:

10bfbd846205bd45fc83490eb680aadb TinyMe-2010-Acorn-Beta-1.i586.iso

To be safe I downloaded it again and burned the iso.

Popped it into my Dell Latitude D630 and it works like a charm.

Put it in my old Dell Latitude C600/500 and with noscsi and running XFdrake to change the video card ( then startx) it runs great.

Put in on an E4600 desktop with IDE DVD/CD and it works without any tweaks.

From what I see it is the SATA DVD/CD drives that are giving the problems.

Paul

***gettinther*** · 12-24-2009, 09:43 AM

Thanks Paul.

Actually since the kernel 2.6.30 all cd/dvd drives are treated as scsi devices regardless of being IDE or SATA (all are processed trough sd_mod kernel module).
I redirected the noscsi function to run a "reduced amount of device drivers" compared to the normal one but it actually still support scsi devices (despite its name). I am currently thinking of making it a default rather than an option.

Would you be so kind as to try the "noscsi" option on your other machines?

Thank you for the report.