TinyMe boots to login screen

[KDulcimer]

Okay, that's odd. Did you skip the keyboard setup when booting up the LiveCD?

[caieng]

[quote author=KDulcimer link=topic=847.msg3475#msg3475 date=1263827809]
Okay, that's odd. Did you skip the keyboard setup when booting up the LiveCD?
[/quote]No.  I selected the default, which was USA keyboard.

I am now repeating the entire installation procedure.

Did you find the answer to your question, re:  mnt livecd?

CAI ENG

[caieng]

Yup.  I made it through to the reboot phase, with cd ejected, and lots of text on the screen as it attempts to boot up from the hard drive, instead of the cdrom.

It is now stuck:  The screen has been cleared, and the text message is at the left hand upper corner, looks like DOS, i.e. very old, not graphics, though, I saw a phrase flashing momentarily, just before this current screen, about starting X, with a green "ok" signal.

Unity release 2009 (Unity) for i586
Kernel 2.6.31.9-unity0.2.lgc on an i686 / tty1
localhost login: Starting display manager:      [OK] (green text)
(blinking cursor)

again, typing "root" to login, gives "prry", not root.

So, that's it, for now....

[rjmx]

[quote author=caieng link=topic=847.msg3478#msg3478 date=1263835320]
It is now stuck:  The screen has been cleared, and the text message is at the left hand upper corner, looks like DOS, i.e. very old, not graphics, though, I saw a phrase flashing momentarily, just before this current screen, about starting X, with a green "ok" signal.

Unity release 2009 (Unity) for i586
Kernel 2.6.31.9-unity0.2.lgc on an i686 / tty1
localhost login: Starting display manager:      [OK] (green text)
(blinking cursor)

[/quote]

I'm not sure if this is your problem, but when I did a hard drive install, TinyMe wouldn't come up in X, and stayed at the console login prompt (which is what you're describing here). (Aside: are we raising a whole new generation of users who've never seen a text-mode terminal?)

Anyway, it turned out that the script that starts X was looking for a default theme (actually /usr/share/slim/themes/default/slim.theme) and was complaining that it couldn't find it. For some reason, the install process had failed to add it, so

[tt]
# cd /usr/share/slim/themes
# ln -s lake default
[/tt]

did the trick.

This was with TinyMe-2010-Acorn-Beta-2.i586.iso

.....Ron

[KDulcimer]

Actually, that theme is intentionally removed before I build the ISO. I'm not sure why it would be looking for the default theme. Did you happen to look at /etc/slim.conf? I thought I set up all the possible SLiM config files to have a list of possible themes. The default theme shouldn't be an option.

[caieng]

rjmx Wrote:(Aside: are we raising a whole new generation of users who've never seen a text-mode terminal?)

I wonder if the current generation has forgotten how to feed the horses, and clean up the dirty hay?  The saddles could use a little soap as well.  Where's my buggy whip?

rjmx Wrote:....when I did a hard drive install, TinyMe wouldn't come up in X, and stayed at the console login prompt

Ummm, no Ron, this is not a typical console login prompt.  This is a profound bug.  I have no meaningful keyboard entry.  I could not type "startx" if my life depended upon it.  There is no way to enter a login id, nor a password, because the output from the keyboard is garbage.

CAI ENG

[KDulcimer]

Caieng,

Please see this thread: http://tinymelinux.com/forum/index.php?topic=851.0

[rjmx]

[quote author=KDulcimer link=topic=847.msg3520#msg3520 date=1264540775]
Actually, that theme is intentionally removed before I build the ISO. I'm not sure why it would be looking for the default theme. Did you happen to look at /etc/slim.conf? I thought I set up all the possible SLiM config files to have a list of possible themes. The default theme shouldn't be an option.
[/quote]

Hmmm, no, I'd missed /etc/slim.conf. Not used to this new-fangled slim stuff.

Interestingly, though, I just looked for it and it's not there. There _is_ an /etc/slim.conf.normal, though. It's dated 2010-01-13 11:15. I'm sure I didn't delete/touch/rename it, since this is the first I've heard of it.

Otherwise. slim wouldn't start until I added the "default" symlink. I tried running it manually from the console without the /dev/null redirection, and it complained about the missing default/slim.theme. That's when I thought I'd see what happened if I added it.

.....Ron

[KDulcimer]

Ah, a missing /etc/slim.conf would do it. But that just leads to the question of why it would be missing.

[aurelTM]

Hi i download :
TinyMe-2010-Acorn-Beta-2.i586.iso
Is this latest release?
I have problem with LOGIN- what is login?
What is PASWORD ?
And which username i must use to test this live CD.
Cd boots fine - booting take about 1 min
on Celeron 1.7 ,512 ram.
And all looks well but i stack with this paswrds and login problem.

thanks advance
Aurel

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Ahh silly me i forget...
all is root i just type and screen appear advance.
Cool.
I will now test network....