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Fujitsu Siemens S400: Linux 

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[Update May 2015] I revisited the S400 to add the flags to the CPU info and the PCI details. I took the easy approach of using a Compact Flash card with Tiny Core 6.1 on it. This booted and ran with no problems. There was no sign of the earlier problem noted below.

[Original report in August 2013] As mentioned under the firmware tab the S400 loaded and ran Tiny Core 4.7.6, but only with Grub as the boot loader - not with Syslinux.

While booting something appears to bomb out - but doesn't appear to affect the running Tiny Core system. From the dmesg file:

....
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
 sdb: sdb1
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at block/genhd.c:1474 0xc0255ad7()
Hardware name: FUTRO S400          
Modules linked in: squashfs ppdev scsi_wait_scan r8169 pcspkr serio_raw parport_pc parport zcache(PC) zram(C) loop
Pid: 213, comm: busybox Tainted: P         C  3.0.21-tinycore #3021
Call Trace:
 [<c012c5fd>] ? 0xc012c5fd
 [<c0255ad7>] ? 0xc0255ad7
 [<c012c61b>] ? 0xc012c61b
 [<c0255ad7>] ? 0xc0255ad7
 [<c01b5a6e>] ? 0xc01b5a6e
 [<c01b5d50>] ? 0xc01b5d50
 [<c01b5c86>] ? 0xc01b5c86
 [<c01b4f60>] ? 0xc01b4f60
 [<c01b49a1>] ? 0xc01b49a1
 [<c01b54fd>] ? 0xc01b54fd
 [<c01b5d50>] ? 0xc01b5d50
 [<c0195730>] ? 0xc0195730
 [<c01962d2>] ? 0xc01962d2
 [<c019f4bf>] ? 0xc019f4bf
 [<c019f94f>] ? 0xc019f94f
 [<c019fba2>] ? 0xc019fba2
 [<c0122292>] ? 0xc0122292
 [<c019632f>] ? 0xc019632f
 [<c01963d1>] ? 0xc01963d1
 [<c0416aa5>] ? 0xc0416aa5
---[ end trace 8d0c9c889980f09c ]---
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
....

 


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