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#81 Post by dancytron »

Sylvander wrote:
dancytron wrote:It was on the usb thumb drive when I had it installed there.
a. I'm booting my Lighthouse-5.6.1 from a CD-RW, with L64Save.4fs+SFS files in a folder in the root of a partition on my internal HDD.
I cannot find a syslinux.cfg file on the CD, nor anywhere inside the L64Save file.

b. On the optical disk, there is a file named isolinux.cfg...
Might this be the file to which I should add the code?
I know HOW to do that, but need confirmation of WHAT to add.
Sorry, I don't know. I figured it out by trial and error.

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#82 Post by edoc »

More detail from gparted:

sda1 fat32 100 MiB
sda2 unknown 128 MiB
sda3 ntfs 107.67 GiB
sda5 linux-swap 9.77 GiB
sda4 ext3 /initrd/mnt/dev_ro2 478.51 GiB
unallocated unallocated 1.34MiB

sda1 contains only the RFI folder and grldr file
sda2 doesn't display on the desktop in pfix=ram mode
sda3 contains the MS win7 files and folders
sda4 contains the LH64-b2 files and folders (Note: LH 601 had been there and was updated early in the LH64-602-b2 install.) The files displayed are: initrd.xz, L64-602.sfs, L74save.4fs, Lighthouse64-6.02-B2.iso, refind.conf, Shellx64.efi, vmlinuz, .wh..wh.aufs, zWine-1.5.14-i486_601.sfs
sda5 doesn't display on the desktop in pfix=ram mode

Also, when the Frugal setup requested a name for the MS win7 partition in refind.conf (it actually assumed win8) I entered sda1 because I didn't see the NEB (?) or SYSTEM label anywhere.

Anything in all of this that may help explain why I am not getting a menus on boot?
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Re: KDE4 workaround

#83 Post by Jim1911 »

tlchost wrote:
Jim1911 wrote:[]Sorry, it did not work, still have the same symptoms.
Did the command change the group and owner to root? Yes

Same command to changer ownership to spot also did not work.

Odd.

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#84 Post by edoc »

In BIOS System Configuration the ]Legacy Support is Enabled.

The description reads: When Legacy Support is enabled, BIOS will load Compatibility Support Module (CSM) to support Legacy OS such as Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and DOS. When Legacy Support is disabled, BIOS will boot in UEFI Mode without CSM to support newer OS such as Windows 8."

Could Legacy Mode - Enabled - be interfering in some way?

I hope to never use MS win7 so it's not a problem should I have to stop & edit BIOS should a rare need arise - I really want LH64 to work! :-)

More info ... the Boot Manager Options are:

USB Hard Drive (UEFI)

OS Boot Manager

Boot from EFI File

USB Hard Drive

Notebook Hard Drive
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#85 Post by Ray MK »

Hi Tazoc

Nice new LH64 puppy - it’s been running very well for the last day or so.
Did a manual frugal install to an ntfs partition on my E732 laptop, booting with grub4dos from an ext2 SDcard.

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Thu 4 Jul 2013 on Lighthouse64 602 Linux 3.8.7 x86_64
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18)
oem: Intel(R)Ironlake Mobile Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(R)Ironlake Mobile Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver: intel
X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Mobile
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4

Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 370 @ 2.40GHz
Core 0: @933 1: @933 2: @933 3: @2399 MHz

...the above also recorded at '/tmp/root/video-info-glx'.

No issues - everything seems to work as expected OOTB - Luvly puppy.
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#86 Post by Sylvander »

Sylvander wrote:
tazoc wrote:Please try the Lighthouse 64 boot option
pfix=noautosave
Enter it on the kernel line. From the LiveCD boot menu, press <tab> (BIOS firmware)
Did this [SUPERB!], but [even though I save the session changes] it only lasts for that session [not auto-applied at the next].
How should I make it permanent?
HELP! :(
No answer to my question.

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#87 Post by Jim1911 »

Sylvander wrote:
Sylvander wrote:
tazoc wrote:Please try the Lighthouse 64 boot option
pfix=noautosave
Enter it on the kernel line. From the LiveCD boot menu, press <tab> (BIOS firmware)
Did this [SUPERB!], but [even though I save the session changes] it only lasts for that session [not auto-applied at the next].
How should I make it permanent?
HELP! :(
No answer to my question.
If you are using grub4dos or similar, simply add the code to your kernel line in your menu.lst file as stated above, otherwise share how you boot.

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#88 Post by Sylvander »

Jim1911 wrote:If you are using grub4dos or similar, simply add the code to your kernel line in your menu.lst file as stated above, otherwise share how you boot.
a. NOT using grub in any form.

b. As I posted above:
"I'm booting my Lighthouse-5.6.1 from a CD-RW, with L64Save.4fs+SFS files in a folder in the root of a partition on my internal HDD."

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#89 Post by edoc »

I'm dead in the water here ... :cry:

Does the Frugal boot folder have to be FAT32 or can it be Linux-swap or ext3 or something better than FAT32?

I've run out of guesses here ...
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Burniso2cd

#90 Post by Jim1911 »

Burniso2cd does not work, it just brings up the following screen when trying to burn a cd.
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#91 Post by Ray MK »

One very minor niggle - touchpad and tapping almost unusable at first startup - not too hard to fix with >menu>setup>adjust touch pad.

Other than that - this has to be the best LH64 ever.
Everything works, suspend, resume, cpu management, wifi, etc. Feels fast.

So much from such a modest sized puppy - thank you Tazoc.
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Re: Burniso2cd

#92 Post by rcrsn51 »

Jim1911 wrote:Burniso2cd does not work, it just brings up the following screen when trying to burn a cd.
On Line 20, change "cdrom" to "optical".

Or replace burniso2cd with PeasyDisc.

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#93 Post by edoc »

edoc wrote:In BIOS System Configuration the ]Legacy Support is Enabled.

The description reads: When Legacy Support is enabled, BIOS will load Compatibility Support Module (CSM) to support Legacy OS such as Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and DOS. When Legacy Support is disabled, BIOS will boot in UEFI Mode without CSM to support newer OS such as Windows 8."
If I turn Legacy Mode OFF I gather that it will stop MS win7 from loading but will that help or hurt LH64-b2 in any way (perhaps solving the no-boot Frugal problem) or make no difference?
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Re: Burniso2cd

#94 Post by Jim1911 »

rcrsn51 wrote:
Jim1911 wrote:Burniso2cd does not work, it just brings up the following screen when trying to burn a cd.
On Line 20, change "cdrom" to "optical".

Or replace burniso2cd with PeasyDisc.
Which file should be changed?

Thanks,
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#95 Post by Billtoo »

I moved my Lighthouse 64 beta 2 install to an older HP desktop pc.
I booted with the option that doesn't load x and ran xorgwizard-puppy
then chose probe and the correct screen resolution.
I needed to run the multiple sound card wizard and then reboot to get
it to use the usb sound card that I'm using.

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Thu 4 Jul 2013 on Lighthouse64 602 Linux 3.8.7 x86_64
0.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV530 [Radeon X1600]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RV530 01.00
X Server: Xorg Driver: radeon
X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (381x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV530
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3300+
Core 0: @1800 MHz

Audio Adapter USB-Audio - Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro

It's working well here too.
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#96 Post by AwesomesaurusRex »

Can this run any 32bit applications? I read that slackware 64 can if it has some extra stuff in it. Does this have that stuff or no? There are a bunch of older 32bit apps id like to run.

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#97 Post by tazoc »

edoc wrote:I'm dead in the water here ... :cry:

Does the Frugal boot folder have to be FAT32 or can it be Linux-swap or ext3 or something better than FAT32?

I've run out of guesses here ...
from http://www.lhpup.org/help/faqs/uefi-harddrive.html Step 2:
Right click on the 'unallocated' partition. This should be the same size that you shrunk your C: drive in Windows.
Select 'New', the Create new Partition window will pop up.
On the File system pull-down menu select 'fat32'.
For 'New size (MiB):' enter 1024. That makes 1GB.
Enter a Label for the new partition, then click Add.
OK, now it looks like you've already shrunk your C: drive and sda4 is a Linux ext3, so you can shrink sda4 by 1 GiB in GParted and then create a new 1 GiB Fat32 partition as above. Yes, this new partition must be Fat32; please do not use sda1 for this new partition, sda1 should be reserved for Windows to avoid problems with hibernation.

Once you've finished Steps 2 and 3 your new Fat32 partition should look like this in ROX-Filer, except that initrd will be initrd.xz and instead of sda8 will be sda6 or whatever GParted uses for the new partition:
Image
In Step 4, change:
options "pmedia=atahd pdev1=sda7"
to
options "pmedia=atahd pdev1=sda4"
Also, when the Frugal setup requested a name for the MS win7 partition in refind.conf (it actually assumed win8) I entered sda1 because I didn't see the NEB (?) or SYSTEM label anywhere.
Click on the Drives icon on the desktop of LH64 to find the label of sda1, I don't know what HP uses.
edoc wrote:In BIOS System Configuration the ]Legacy Support is Enabled.Could Legacy Mode - Enabled - be interfering in some way?
CSM is good I think, that's what I'm using here. But you can try either way and see what works best for you.
I hope to never use MS win7 so it's not a problem should I have to stop & edit BIOS should a rare need arise - I really want LH64 to work! :-)

More info ... the Boot Manager Options are:

USB Hard Drive (UEFI)

OS Boot Manager

Boot from EFI File
That's it! In Step 5 of the UEFI Install, use 'Boot from EFI File' to add the new boot option, which will start the a LH64 (rEFInd) boot menu from the new Fat32 partition.
Generally on the boot tab you will find some way to add a new boot option. After you find the button to to add a boot option, you will be asked to select a partition. This is kind of cryptic as well, and might take some guessing. Then you will be asked to browse to a bootable EFI application, this will be EFI/boot/bootx64.efi on your new fat32 partition. If you can't browse to that path or you can't see the files that you put in your fat32 partition under EFI/boot/, you probably picked the wrong partition. After you have added your new boot option, move that new boot option to the top of the boot order. Again, this will vary with different UEFI implementations. Then save and reboot.
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#98 Post by tazoc »

Sylvander wrote:
tazoc wrote:Please try the Lighthouse 64 boot option
pfix=noautosave
Enter it on the kernel line. From the LiveCD boot menu, press <tab> (BIOS firmware)
Did this [SUPERB!], but [even though I save the session changes] it only lasts for that session [not auto-applied at the next].
How should I make it permanent?
So far it is experimental and not persistent when booting from LiveCD. I made a note to add a dialog to Boot Manager and update the init script so that it will be persistent in the next release.
Barburo wrote:Chrome browser opens up and CPU rapidly goes to 99% to 100% and stays there.

The browser opens (slowly) and I sometimes get the "unresponsive page" alert, but chrome continues to work but slower than molasses. Obviously not what I need.

Firefox uses a similar large CPU on startup but rapidly diminished to usual levels with excellent responsiveness.

I use Chromium-browser in Precise Puppy 5.5 and Mint14 on this same box, and it behaves normally without the memory usage problem.

Any suggestions about how I can Chrome working properly?
B.
Hi Barburo,
I have no idea, try starting from a terminal:

Code: Select all

google-chrome-spot
or

Code: Select all

google-chrome
(as root) to see if there are any clues.
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Re: Burniso2cd

#99 Post by tazoc »

Jim1911 wrote:
rcrsn51 wrote:
Jim1911 wrote:Burniso2cd does not work, it just brings up the following screen when trying to burn a cd.
On Line 20, change "cdrom" to "optical".

Or replace burniso2cd with PeasyDisc.
Which file should be changed?
/usr/sbin/burniso2cd
Better yet, use Pburn in the Multimedia menu and click 'Burn ISO-image'.
AwesomesaurusRex wrote:Can this run any 32bit applications? I read that slackware 64 can if it has some extra stuff in it. Does this have that stuff or no? There are a bunch of older 32bit apps id like to run.
No, only Wine (windows apps) should be 32-bit, and only if the optional Wine SFS is loaded. Better to use a 32-bit OS if you need the older apps.
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Re: Burniso2cd

#100 Post by AwesomesaurusRex »

tazoc wrote:No, only Wine (windows apps) should be 32-bit, and only if the optional Wine SFS is loaded. Better to use a 32-bit OS if you need the older apps.
Are there any options for me to run 32bit stuff in LHP? I don't want to run any of the 32 bit releases, because I've had driver issues with them. LHP works great on my laptop. Can I take parts of the slacko release and add them into LHP?

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