Cannot install Puppy to shared hard disk

[Getnikar]

The following setup used to work up to 2.12. It failed with 2.14, and I see that it is still broken with 2.16.

The setup: Ubuntu linux installed on the disk with grub installed as part of the ubuntu install to handle booting. (Optionally, ie on another machine, I had Windoze XP installed first, then Ubuntu and grub to dual boot into either. This all worked fine)

I then added in a Puppy installation, simply by copying from the puppy .iso:

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/pup_212.sfs
/boot/puppy/initrd.gz
/boot/puppy/vmlinuz

and boot sucessfully via grub by adding the following to /boot/grub/menu.lst

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title Puppy Linux - Boot into a New Setup
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/puppy/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram init=/initrd/boot/puppy/initrd.gz ro pfix=ram xres=1024x768 xdrvr=xorg
initrd /boot/puppy/initrd.gz

Note that I use /boot/puppy not / for initrd.gz and vmlinuz, because Ubuntu puts a link to its initrd.img and vmlinuz into /.

Under 2.14and 2.16 I thought the setup should be essentially the same, ie for 2.16 I have:

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/pup_216.sfs  
/zdrv_216.sfs
/boot/puppy/initrd.gz
/boot/puppy/vmlinuz

and

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title Puppy 2.16 Linux - Test Boot into a New Setup
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/puppy/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=93952 initrd=/initrd/boot/puppy/initrd.gz PDEV1=hda1 pfix=ram xres=1024x768 xdrvr=xorg
initrd /boot/puppy/initrd.gz

The bootup is not finding Puppy. The kernel boot error I get is:

Now executing 'init' script in initial-ramdisk
[snip a couple of lines]
Looking for Puppy in hda1...hda3...hda5...hda6...hda7...hda8
Loading swap partition in /dev/hda2
ERROR, cannot find Puppy on 'idehd' boot media.
PUPMODE=1 PDEV1=

In case it is any help, some contents of /tmp/bootinit.log, apart from lines regarding usb, is

PDEV1=
FSTYPE=
PUPSFS=
DEV1PUP=
PUPSAVE=
ZDRV=

Note that I tried adding PDEV1=hda1, but this seems to be ignored. Puppy boot still looks through all of hda as shown above.
Any ideas? Are my grub menu.lst lines coded wrong?

[HairyWill]

2.16 only looks for the kernel in / or /boot, if you have it anywhere else then you have to include the kernel parameter psubdir=xxxxxxxx, in your case

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psubdir=/boot/puppy

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 560#115560
This doesn't explain the problem in 2.14 though.

[Getnikar]

Thanks Will. Your suggestion did the trick. Puppy is booting again.