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pupinfo - an answer to "pup-xxx.sfs not found"
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Crash
 Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 425 Location: Garland, TX |
Here is a shell script that gives useful information if you get the message "pup-430.sfs not found" when booting. It automates the process that I normally do by hand. You have to add it to initrd.gz. When the boot process drops you to the prompt, you type "sh pupinfo", and something like the following comes out:
/// Edited October 14 I made a few minor changes to enhance readability, etc. ///
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Crash
Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 425 Location: Garland, TX |
In the absence of any comments, I am adding my own: This script doesn't do anything on its own, and isn't useful to its intended audience - the newcomer. Here's why: A newcomer won't know what to do with this script. Since the newcomer is only at the point of trying to get Puppy running for the first time, they are in no position to do more esoteric things like modify the initrd.gz to insert this script. So unless the script was included within the distribution, it wouldn't be useful.
Even if this script was included in the distro, it wouldn't do any good stand-alone. The init script would also have to be edited to make reference to it. Otherwise, it would exist, and be available, but the newcomer wouldn't know it was there. A great example of that is the inclusion in version 4.3 of a script in /sbin called "debug_init", that does many of the same things as this pupinfo script. How many of the readers of this post know that the debug_init script even exists? It isn't referenced in the readme file, nor have I seen any reference in Barry's blog, although I haven't read every piece of it. So it is there but doesn't really do any good. At any rate, I think there is great value in including a script that runs from the Kernel's command prompt in the event that Puppy cannot be fully launched. But its existence and usefulness needs to be made evident. Something as simple as a message in the init script when it drops into the command prompt like "if the user wants to look more closely at the hardware that the Kernel recognizes, they can type 'debug_init" or 'pupinfo'". Something. Anything. Having a message that the teletype machine isn't connected isn't too useful. My teletype machine hasn't been connected since 1978. Anyway, I guess I jumped right from the problem, which was "what to do when "Can't find pupxxx" file" to a design solution without going through the rest of the development stages - iterative discussion on how to approach the problem, suggested methods of attack, etc. I made a solution that made sense to me, but was lost in the tall grass of issues surrounding it. Anyway, I'm rambling. I'm much better at writing code than actually communicating in English. Maybe what I'm saying makes sense to others, maybe not. At any rate, the whole purpose was to create something that would allow more people who have limited experience with Linux to get Puppy Linux running for the first time. If you can get someone to be successful the first time, you will have a repeat customer who gets a lot of benefit from the experience. In short, you get a convert. Wow, sounds pretty religious, doesn't it? |
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