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bobn9lvu · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 173

I installed Puppy both ways, Full HD, and Frugal install...

With a frugal install, the Grub menu.lst has the wrong boot parameters to boot into ram.

I had to rewrite the menu.
From;
title Puppy Linux 2.16 (on /dev/hdc1)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc1 ro vga=normal

NOTE, I changed the vmlinuz path from the original which was ( /boot/vmlinuz)
and incorrect, as file does not exist. It is at ( /boot/puppy216/vmlinuz),
TO (/vmlinuz) as there was a copy here as well,
and I deleted the /boot/puppy216/vmlinuz file + residing dir..

I then rewrote the entry;

title Puppy Linux 2.16 (on /dev/hdc1)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 loglevel=3 PMEDIA=idehd ro vga=normal
initrd /initrd.gz

and made sure there was a copy of the initrd file in the root dir of hdc1

Guess what, IT WORKS!!! BUT I still cannot get OO to display,
even though it is in the correct dir (/mnt/home) and I used the util,
rebooted, and ran fixmenus from consol...

With FULL install I cannot get the Nvidia display to work under xorg unless,
I test the mode, then select generic driver...
The sound and ethernet must be manually forced to configure,
even though under live cd boot ALL is found automagically... Shocked

Also the sfs installer unpacks all the files to the root dir " not good " Shocked

Bob

WhoDo · Posted: Tue 15 May 2007, 20:38 Post subject: Re: Puppy 2.16 install problem(s)

Kal · Posted: Tue 15 May 2007, 20:39 Post subject:

Thanks, Bob

Works for me on boot up.

Good Luck, Kal

BarryK · Posted: Tue 15 May 2007, 21:17 Post subject:

bobn9lvu · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 173

Ok, I did select OO, and unchecked the box (for 2.16 sfs only), rebooted, and nothing shows up.....
Will RE dl from your site, and re-try...

Bob

BTW do you know why the hardware recognition problems that are happening on a full hd install,
but does work, and finds all hardware on a frugal install, and cd live boot???

UPDATE::::
I could ONLY get the OO icons to display on the menus after I manually
ran an OO application, and went through the pre-setup/registration in OO.
Now all icons are SHOWING in the menus... Rolling Eyes

Go Figure

Newcrest · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 203

I am unable to boot 216 as well. I am running a frugal install on an external usb HDD.
It says searching for Puppy and goes through all available disk partitions including the correct one. It then says it cannot find Puppy on "usbhd" boot media and PDEV1=

I tried specifying PDEV1=SDB1 but did not help. Also I have found that PDEV1 does not seem to work in 215CE either. Even though I have it specified, it still gets ignored and a search of HD partitions takes place. However, 215 continues on and boots.

Thanks.

BarryK · Posted: Tue 15 May 2007, 23:17 Post subject:

Newcrest · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 203

BarryK · Posted: Wed 16 May 2007, 02:05 Post subject:

For frugal and full internal hd install fix, see this post:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=116711#116711

stroom · Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 10 Location: France

Newcrest wrote: "I am unable to boot 216 as well. I am running a frugal install on an external usb HDD.
It says searching for Puppy and goes through all available disk partitions including the correct one. It then says it cannot find Puppy on "usbhd" boot media and PDEV1= "

I have exactly same problem as newcrest with manual frugal install.
puppy214 works fine, puppy216 doesn't with similar grub entries:

title Puppy Linux 2.16 (frugal on /dev/hda4)
root (hd0,3)
kernel /puppy216/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PMEDIA=idehd ro vga=normal
initrd /puppy216/initrd.gz

title Puppy Linux 2.14 (frugal on /dev/hda4)
root (hd0,3)
kernel /puppy214/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PMEDIA=idehd ro vga=normal
initrd /puppy214/initrd.gz

sfs files are in /
vmlinuz and initrd.gz in the respective /puppy21x directories

Since I have installed ubuntu on the same partition I cannot put the vmlinuz in /

Any idea to solve this?

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

try the kernel parameter

stroom · Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 10 Location: France

veronicathecow · Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 526

Hi, I've installed 2.16 (Final) via a hand built frugal (the installer failed to give a correct grub entry) I renamed the 2.15 sfs for OO and others (pgs and also web) but no joy in getting any .sfs extra goodies to load even though the I choose them from the sfs installer (It only showed up on the second reboot) (I unticked the load all box)
Cheers
Tony

veronicathecow · Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 526

Hi also I have timed Puppy boot at 1m 2secs (PClinux takes 1m 5sec)
Of that it takes 15 seconds for post on my machine. From Checking version update to the end of Rclocal takes 22 seconds. If backgrounding can be sorted for those items then the actual booting of Puppy would drop from 47 seconds to 25!.
Must get back to work!

P.S. Puppy frugal still loads apps so much faster (Approx twice speed of Pclinux)
Cheers
Tony

bobn9lvu · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 173

Run any OO ap manually, and fill out the registration pre-install ect., exit the program, and reboot windows manager, your menu items will be there...

Bob