Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[nooby]

I have had problem getting Lupu to boot reliably since many versions back.

I've tested different things to add to the kernel boot line in menu.lst

and now I think I have found one that do help.

rootdelay=8

I need to test more but what do you guys say. What does that actually do and would that help be have reliable boot of Lupu520?

[ICPUG]

Did a search nooby and found (paraphrased a bit):

The purpose of the rootdelay kernel parameter is to cause the kernel to delay for the specified number of seconds before mounting the root device. This allows slow devices to be discovered before the mount takes place. If the mount is attempted before the device is found then an error message results (unable to mount root file system).

This was found here
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10483

It seems to be a problem with usb devices on the Ubuntu forums.

[nooby]

I try to test now and then today and the following days.

The no boot are so unpredictable. Some days it almost never boot and on other times it boots on first or second or third try.

Could it have to do with which OS I used the day before?

Such should be lost when the RAM get out? What else can it be? I have a gut feeling that is some IRQ thing that goes bonk and that is random if it does or not due to two services competing to get that particular IRQ?

Sometimes it helps to add Debug to the kernel line as if that one makes a small delay so I thought the rootdelay=8 seconds would give it enough time to decide on what to do next. But I wish I could create some error message that could be interpreted, Now it just sit there and wait for something. Most likely it is some kernel panic because the only way to get out is to do hard reboot.

[sm6lod]

nooby,
FWIW. I have had problems with Reboot since I started to use Puppy. Nowdays I always shut down totally before I boot up again.

[tasmod]

An initrd.gz with a small line addition during startup that shows Version 5.2

Just replace the initrd.gz you already have.

Helps somewhat when testing various other versions as well.

[playdayz]

[Béèm]

[playdayz]

[Volhout]

I tried lupu 520 from USB stick (using Unetbootin).
When I try to boot from USB with default startup, my PC hangs at "searchig for save files, searching deeper" returns to the commandline.

When I manually start (press F2) with "puppy pmedia=usbflash" it work okay.
But it is rather annoying ...

This happens on a AMD64 desktop, but also on a eee pc netbook.

Volhout

[rjbrewer]

[Terryphi]

[DaveS]

This idiot thinks its based on 10.04 and was built by Barry
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Puppy-Linux-5-2-Is-Based-on-Ubuntu-10-04-176685.shtml

[Terryphi]

[tasmod]

I've been chasing a small bug that was annoying me on my computer, although I don't think anyone else mentioned the problem.

For 520 I went the upgrade route to my frugal install keeping the save file but just replacing the sfs etc.

However on each reboot I noticed firewallstate showed the firewall off, even though I previously turned it on. I had to keep running the wizard after each boot.

The line was there in /etc/rc.d/rc.local but was not being executed.

I had loaded Startmount pet and this inserted the Startmount line to rc.local as usual.

Now, oddly it was borking the rc.local. After the line for Startmount was run the script exited without running the Firewall start line.
I just moved the Startmount line to after the firewall line and all is well. It now starts the Firewall on reboot and Startmount.

Don't know if it's a one off on my computer or else no-one reported problems.

[Terryphi]