Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[saj_khan]

Hi Friends,

I currently have Puppy 4.0 as a frugal on an fat partition and I have been booting off a live CD.
i created another partition of ext2 and copied all puppy files from fat partition to new ext2.

I have recently installed DSL on another partition of ext2 type. I have included an entry of Puppy in the menu.lst as

title Puppy
rootnoverify (hd3,0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 pmedia=idehd
initrd /initrd.gz


title DSL fb1024x768
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda2 quiet vga=791 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal

This GRUB was installed by DSL.

Now, in GRUB the two entries show up and when I select Puppy I get a boot error.

I think i am missing something here.

Please let m know what I need to do to convert this frugal install to a full HD install and dual boot with DSL.

Thanks for any help and suggestions.

[rcrsn51]

Your rootnoverify command is backwards.

(hd0,0) means drive 1 - partition 1
(hd0,1) means drive 1 - partition 2
(hd0,2) means drive 1 - partition 3

The drive number is first, the partition number is second and the numbers start at 0.


Boot off the Live CD, run Gparted and determine which partition actually holds Puppy.

[saj_khan]

Thanks rcrsn51,

Now I get it.Its the same drive that both OS's are installed but on different partitions. I will give it a shot and let you know ow it goes.

Thanks again.

[saj_khan]

Hi rcrsn51,

I changed Puppy entry as (hd0,3) as it is the 3rd partition, but no success.

So I wiped out the entire partition and ran Puppy Universal Installer.It said it copied all the files. But then the GRUB bootloader simply would not advance after the initial choice "Begin",etc.So I cancelled the bootloader and ytied booting off the HD.The entry for puppy is still there and after choosing it I get an error "Device not found".

My question, should the bootloader be present in both OS partitions?

Is it OK to simply copy the files in CD along with the pup_save file an ext2 partition and then put an entry in GRUB?

Thanks for your help and suggestions

[rcrsn51]

The third partition should be (hd0,2)

[saj_khan]

Thanks rcrsn51,

I will give it a go and see what happens.

Just a question, is there any difference between converting a frugal install to full install and installing to a drive partition using Universal Installer?
Because in a frugal there are all these files stored with 2fs or whatever extension and in the latter method there are all those folders.

I don't really understand the file system in Puppy.

Anyways, thanks for your help.