Hardware Progress - consolidated files

[Paul Mansfield]

The Click Mini's UEFI firmware is extremely limited, very dumb. In the
early days I could only get the Debian Multi-Arch ISO to boot, I used
an external USB hub with gigabit network, usb keyboard and mouse, in
order to install. This is why I am using Debian on my TCM!

you'll need to create a GPT partition before you can get the UEFI
firmware to recognise the drive. The firmware will also recognise a
bootable microSD card in the keyboard dock or USB thumb drive, but you
can't boot off a memory card in the tablet. The card or USB drive has
to have a GPT partition table, and EFI partition etc.

I am going to back up my critical files and try out your linuxium Mint
iso, hopefully it will give me a more complete experience than my
current install which has become a bit hacky,

thanks,
Paul



On 18 February 2018 at 23:53, E Jonsen <e_jonsen at hotmail.com> wrote:
> That sounds fab! But..
>
> I don't know how I'm gonna get it on the eMMC however. The filesystem(s)
> were so corrupt that various Windoze USBs either blue screened or loop
> rebooted.
>
>
> I eventually got a Mint booted, after approx 1.5hours! I intended to wipe
> the various partitions individually but got distracted by other stuff. I
> subsequently and stupidly dd'ed the whole drive with zeros, instead of each
> partition. Now the 'BIOS' doesn't see the eMMC let alone any OS. I finally
> got a Russian (Sergei) WinPE to boot but the Tosh flash routine wouldn't
> run.
>
> I was going to dd my working (Win10) TCM onto a flash drive but getting it
> forced onto the bust one will still be problematic, I reckon. Bricked?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> EJ
>
>
> (Slitaz is indeed a cute wee distro - seen Kolibri? Wow!)
>
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