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Gnuxo · Joined: 09 Feb 2012 Posts: 365

How do I dual boot puppy arcade with Macpup then?

How do I set up Grub4dos to boot puppy arcade outside a subdir?

zekebaby · Joined: 17 Nov 2010 Posts: 50

Keef · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 846 Location: Staffordshire

To boot from the root directory just remove the subdir reference from the menu entry:

Gnuxo · Joined: 09 Feb 2012 Posts: 365

Errr...what's the difference between Ide and Ata? I'm pretty sure I have an Ata.

Also do you think Puppy Arcade has issues with Grub4Dos? Do you think I should get the grub bootloader instead? Or does it not matter?

Another issue is that I don't really have a root folder unless you count the puppy distros themselves. All of my puppy folders are directly inside mnt/sda1

Gnuxo · Joined: 09 Feb 2012 Posts: 365

I've now installed the grub bootloader.

How do I get rid of grub4dos and use grub instead?

I've never tried using grub to boot puppy, so I'm a little nervous.

It's obviously not grub2 because I can't access grub from grub4dos.

Gnuxo · Joined: 09 Feb 2012 Posts: 365

I just discovered an interesting error.

Ok...I don't have a large OS installed. I just made an ext4 partition and moved Macpup onto it and linked to it with Grub.

Now when I boot up the Puppy Arcade cd, it won't mount my sda1.
It also detects my hdd partition as ext3, not ext4. And when I try the installer it says I have no free space on my partition even though I have 70 gigs free.
My Macpup save file is 3fs. which means puppy arcade is trying to mount my Macpup save file instead of the sda drive itself.

Also a few of the emulators won't even open when I click on them.

These are all issues I am having and maybe its's why Puppy Arcade is having issues booting frugally.

Maybe it's not playing well with my Macpup. Or maybe it's just defective.

Any ideas folks?

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2493 Location: UK

Gnuxo · Joined: 09 Feb 2012 Posts: 365

Oh, I figured that out on my own.

I already have Puppy Arcade up and running frugally. I made a new ext3 partition.

Getting some drivers, will copy them over to sda3 from Macpup. Wifi in Puppy Arcade doesn't work but It's for gaming so it doesn't matter.

Thanks for making Puppy Arcade 10 and hopefully 11 will be soon to follow.

Gnuxo · Joined: 09 Feb 2012 Posts: 365

A few interesting comments:

Under xvesa, snes9x won't even open. The screen flashes.

I had to switch to xorg which is much slower and install a .pet for my intel graphics chip.

The games run fine but I can't seem to figure out which settings to use because all of them seem to possess some graphical glitch.

johncl · Joined: 04 May 2012 Posts: 5

Hi, I am in the process of building myself a Mame arcade cabinet and wanted to use an older Via Epia CN13000 (1.3 GHz C7 CPU, Via Unichrome Pro GPU, 1 GB memory). I tried Puppy Arcade 10 boot USB stick on my 3 year old work laptop and it booted up fine although the X3100 graphics chipset was not supported out of the box. The boot start shows me a fancy graphics based boot selector where I can choose to boot or install, etc.

But when I try to boot it on my Via Epia system it only brings up a textbased prompt for Grub4Dos with an option to press ESC to bring up a menu with 4 options, none which boots Puppy.

I am sorry but I am really Linux illiterate so that is really why I wanted to try out a prebuilt distribution for Mame fun. If it doesnt work on my Via does anyone have any experience in other linux distros that work fine and will allow me to run Mame at fullscreen for my arcade project? I'd rather use a faster Linux boot than WinXP if I could.

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2493 Location: UK

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2493 Location: UK

MarkHill · Joined: 23 Jun 2012 Posts: 1

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 2872

Tried to compile the geode driver in Arcade 10 with devx_420 loaded but apparently xserver.h is not in devx.
Any idea where I could find it?
(other 4xx puppies maybe with the same xserver?)
Thx