Stops at boot prompt on many laptops

[farry]

Puppy stops at boot prompt on many laptops. Four other people have reported this problem in the "Acer Travelmate" thread but I decided to start a new thread with a more generic title.

This problem started with Puppy 1.04 and persists to 1.06. Versions 1.00 to 1.03 did not have this problem. It's been reported on Acer, Medion, Packard Bell, HP, and Centrino laptops.

When booting, an image of the puppy, and the following text is shown:
Could not find kernel image: 1
boot: _

"FidoNetUser" supplied the following workaround - enter this at the prompt:
boot: vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 initrd=image.gz PFILE=pup001

However, he reported that when the script tried to mount the pup001 file, there was a superblock error, and Puppy lamented that it wouldn't be able to save anything permanently, but he mounted the pup file with no problems manually. I found exactly the same problem.

[lokito]

well...first sorry for my bad english..

I got the same problem with my laptop and I found a trick to solve this problem..
first boot with puppy 1.0.3 and at the prompt change the cd with version 1.0.5
( or another one )..of course you must fix somethings but it work for me.

I hope it help somone.

lokito.

[Guest]

Thanks, same here. I find that I can start booting with the Puppy 1.0.3 CD, and when the boot prompt appears, quickly swap CDs for 1.0.6, and then it starts OK.

Another thing. After looking in the isolinux.cfg file on the 1.0.6 CD, I've realised that the correct text that should be entered at the 1.0.6 prompt (if it stops there) so that it reads the session file correctly is:
boot: vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 initrd=image.gz PFILE=pup001-none-262144

So something's gone wrong with the isolinux boot in Puppy 1.0.4 - 1.0.6. Can any isolinux gurus suggest what to look at next?

[farry]

Ah, I hadn't logged into the forum before posting. The above post was mine.

[BarryK]

I plan to upload 1.0.7alpha in a few days.
I will upgrade syslinux/isolinux from 3.08 to 3.11 -- there was a report on another thread that 3.08 is buggy.

[farry]

Thank. I'll watch out for it and try it out.

[farry]

This bug has been fixed with Puppy 1.0.7alpha (for my Centrino laptop, at least). Thanks.

[Alucard_the_dex]

Idk if this is the same problem but My computer Froze up during boot every boot. I burned the Same ISO with a differnt program and it worked fine. Dunno just thought to throw it out there.

[lokito]

Like Farry no more problems booting with version 1.0.7

Congratulations Puppy Team !!.