Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[shinobar]

You know the Grub/Gru4Dos provides graphical menu.
You can make your Puppy Live CD as the same.
You can see an example with Lucid Puppy Quickset edition(LupQ).
(Direct desktop with Puppy-4.x, see the topic: Quickset Puppy )
Flappy, and maybe Puppeee, made by jemimah also has a graphical menu using isolinux.

Here is the step to make a Puppy live CD with graphical menu using Grub4Dos. (UPDATED using dir2iso, contained in the file attached.)

1. Download and extract graphicalmenu-files-20140531.tar.gz
   http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/
   
2. Prepare your favorite Puppy or remastered one with .iso file or CD.
   
3. Make the work directory at any partition, like /mnt/sda1/my-puppy-linux.
   
4. Copy all the contents in 'graphicalmenu-files-xxxx' attached to the work directory, but move the dir2iso-xx.pet to another place.
   
5. Install the dir2iso-xx.pet.
   
6. Mount your Puppy CD or .iso file.
   
7. Copy the 3-4 files, vmlinuz, initrd.*, *.sfs(the main and the driver sfs if exists), into the work directory.
   
8. Edit the 3 files, menu.lst, README.htm, splash.xpm. Former 2 can edit by a text editor. The splash.xpm is 640x480x14(14 or less color depth) .xpm file, you can edit by mtpaint or gimp. You can also edit the UPUP.ICO by gimp.
   
9. Right-click the work directory and choose 'dir2iso'. Or run from a terminal 'dir2iso' and drag and drop the the work directory on the entry box.
   
10. You can type the name of the new CD (default is same of the directory name).
    
11. Click 'OK'. You can get the new CD or .iso file

Once you make the Grub4Dos Puppy CD, you can remaster it with the normal step(if your remasterpup2 supports grub4dos).

Happy Puppy!

[shinobar]

Here is an example of the boot menu:



You can put 'safe mode', 'RAM mode', and etc.
The items of Windows can boot-up Windows(95 to 7) directly even if the MBR boot loader is broken.

[Flash]

Very nice. I have a few questions:

What is "Puppy safe mode?"

Is "Puppy in RAM only" the same thing as booting Puppy with the puppy pfix=ram boot option?

[shinobar]

[Aitch]

There's also Catdude's version of graphical GRUB

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27471

Aitch

[shinobar]

Correction:
The color depth of the 'splash.xpm' must not be larger then 14. (was described '15')

[Iguleder]

Don't forget "nomodeset" for the safe mode, shinobar

Thanks for the tutorial, I'll try it with my new Puppy experiment and post it in the derivatives forum if it actually works

[sc0ttman]

I recently remastered a 4.2 system, and followed the guide on this thread to add GRUB to the live CD..

However the new remastered version does not go to xorgwizard, it stops after the keyboard wizard..
I have to to type 'xwin' or 'xorgwizard' manually to get to the xorgwizard..
This was not the case before I remastered.

I have a few questions..

I have the following options in the menu.lst on my live CD:

[shinobar]

[sc0ttman]

[shinobar]

Updated graphicalmenu-files-20120706.tar.gz, containd dir2iso.
See the top post.

[TLM]

Thanks shinobar. I had posted an inquiry about how to do this in another thread. Now i have my answer. Thank you.

[shinobar]

UPDATE:
graphicalmenu-files-20140531.tar.gz
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/

[cimarron]

Thanks for the instructions. I was messing with alternate spash screens for grub4dos and came up with this one I liked, so I'll share...

[cimarron]

Here's another alternative. I use these lines at the beginning of my menu.lst so the text is visible if it overlaps the big puppy: