After some progress, a new topic.

Reference,

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This machine has no PCI bus. With this in grub/menu.lst, dma is
no longer a problem.
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-1-mepis root=/dev/hda1 nomce quiet nosplash acpi=off libata.dma=0 pci=off,nobios

But it comes to this.
ALERT! /dev/hda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

Again the screen photo is at
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hda1 is not found? Why?

The machine has a Geode cpu. Several of the options in the
reference relate to a timer or timers in the Geode. Any advice
about timers? Other ideas?

Thanks again, ... Peter E.

Post output of
cat /etc/fstab
to supply info on what is going on with what on what.

if I understand what you are doing, you are mixing a 2.6 kernel with an antix-15 core install. I think you'll find all kinds of things that are not going to work.

somewhere along the way, naming conventions for devices changed, and hda went away and all devices became sda. I'm not sure what controls the naming of the devices, but you might try sda1 instead of hda1 in your boot line. or root=UUID=uuid of the drive. most modern systems boot uuid designations instead of sdX designations because the udev spec allows for the names of devices to change every boot.

> Post output of
> sudo blkid
> cat / etc/fstab
> sudo fdisk -l
> sudo parted -l
> inxi -Fxxx
> to supply info on what is going on
> with what on what.

For background, please refer to my preceding topic"Error inserting fan" ...

At this stage, the tablet has no keyboard and no mouse. The only way I imagine to obtain the information requested is to modify and recompile grub.

Sun Dec 13, 2015 6:28 am
> if I understand what you are doing, you are mixing a 2.6 kernel with an antix-15 core install.

I merely retrieved antiX-15-V_386-core-libre.iso from sourceforge
and installed to a CF card. Didn't change the kernel.

> ... try sda1 instead of hda1 in your boot line. or root=UUID=uuid of the drive.

Comes to equivalent results.
ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist.
and
ALERT! /dev/by-uuid/79...7 does not exist. Dropping to shell!
...
(initramfs)
(initramfs)
(initramfs)

> most modern systems boot uuid designations instead of sdX designations because
> the udev spec allows for the names of devices to change every boot.

Yes, I've always wondered why Linux missed the simple notation for
ATA drives, IDE<d>#<p>. Eg. IDE1#1 for 1st part of 2nd drive.

Incidentally, Native Oberon boots on the machine with no difficulty.

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An elementary but obscure snag here with antiX.

Thanks, ... Peter E.

> Post output of
> sudo blkid
> cat / etc/fstab
> sudo fdisk -l
> sudo parted -l
> inxi -Fxxx
> to supply info on what is going on
> with what on what.

For background, please refer to my preceding topic"Error inserting fan" ...

Okey Dokey then. Not really helpful for what I asked for. I did look though.

At this stage, the tablet has no keyboard and no mouse.

Makes me wonder how the install buttons were hit. Using the screen? If so. On my touchscreen. For a onscreen keyboard. I use onboard.
My thread on when I installed it on one of my atom touchscreen units running AntiX below.

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5974&hilit=onboard


Your thread is way out of whack though.

hda1 is not found? Why?

Because this looks wrong as all get out for AntiX 15 which uses grub 2 and not grub legacy

With this in grub/menu.lst, dma is
no longer a problem.
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-1-mepis root=/dev/hda1 nomce quiet nosplash acpi=off libata.dma=0 pci=off,nobios

My AntiX 15 is like so
I have no /grub/menu.list. I did long ago when I ran AntiX in the early years and we used grub legacy and the kernel used hd instead of sd for partition naming.


So something is not savvy here whether I refer to your other thread or not. You are not running AntiX 15 (but something way way older) from what I see you posting.

Even if you do say in the other thread

antiX-15-V_386-core-libre.iso was applied to install to a CF card.

Maybe Anti knows what you are doing. Because I do not. Sorry. __{{emoticon}}__

> Maybe Anti knows what you are doing. Because I do not. Sorry.

The"installation" was performed with the CF in a desktop machine running QEMU with the virtual machine booted from the iso. If antiX 15 is based on Debian testing, the kernel is 4.2. Kernel 2.6 here certainly is wrong.

When there is time I'll start from the beginning again. January maybe.

Thanks for the reply, ... Peter E.

> So something is not savvy here whether I refer to
> your other thread or not. You are not running AntiX
> 15 (but something way way older) ...

You are correct. I should have said that the
system was installed with antiX-M8.5-base-486.iso.
I tried to run antiX-15-V_386-full.iso and
antiX-15-V_386-core-libre.iso under QEMU a few days
back. Those installations ran for hours. The first
failed to conclude properly. I abandoned the second
after an hour or two.

After that I installed with antiX-M8.5-base-486.iso.
The previous reports should have referred to that.
Preoccupation with other work has distracted me
severely from this project.

The problem remains: install an antiX which works.
Continue trying to make M8.5-base boot? Try again to
install 15? Given the difficulty with QEMU, try the
boot fromiso method perhaps? Any suggestions are
welcome.

Thanks, ... Peter E.