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Sylvander · Posted: Thu 10 Oct 2013, 14:47 Post subject:

"1. Validate the burn?"
No, but then I never do, and normally it is ALWAYS a good burn.
Never had a bad burn.

"2. At the prompt type in full "puppy pfix=ram" (without the quotes)?"
Yes.

Volhout · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 470

I've seen this before when booting from USB stick. In that case it was a timing issue, where some USB sticks would show the problem, and others did not.

Not sure about CD's though. Haven't used these for years.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2646 Location: Japan

With pnethood 0.6.8, when i copy a file to the remote folder, an error occurs:
I posted the issue at first on 03 Dec 2010.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=473451#473451

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 893 Location: UK

Good morning Sylvander,

I am still of the opinion that your issue could be caused by a bad burn due to faulty optical media. This could give the symptoms you describe, which as Volhout has commented is akin to a timing problem. (Either the main sfs cannot be found or is reported as “not found” because it has been corrupted in the burn and cannot be read)

You are fortunate to have never experienced a bad burn. I have known well used DVD-RWs to become erratic and also have had the odd defective CD-R in a brand new pack.

My inclination would be to try burning the ISO again (at the slowest possible speed) to a new CD-R or DVD-R/DVD-RW.

The only other possibility is that a problem has unintentionally been introduced into the ISO itself. I will therefore download it, burn it and attempt to boot from it later today.

Sylvander · Posted: Fri 11 Oct 2013, 07:03 Post subject:

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 893 Location: UK

HI Sylvander,

Try out each of these boot codes:

1. puppy acpi=on

2. puppy acpi=off

Sylvander · Posted: Fri 11 Oct 2013, 11:33 Post subject:

bigpup · Posted: Fri 11 Oct 2013, 14:14 Post subject:

Sylvander,

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 893 Location: UK

Hi Sylvander,
I have burned the ISO to a DVD-R and booted successfully on a net-book using an external USB connected DVD writer. The implication is that this build may have a problem booting from anything that is RW.
May I suggest that you also burn a DVD-R or CD-R and try again? I do not suspect hardware as you have successfully booted other pups from RW media.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6643 Location: Kentucky

For what it's worth, I burned the latest 5.2.8.6 20131004 to a memorex cd-r and have successfully booted 5 different machines up to a hexacore w/ 16 gb of ram. No problems on any hardware so far.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6643 Location: Kentucky

Been doing a little testing but no problems so haven't been posting. But since I'm here.........

sh-4.1# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Lucid , version 528

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP61 - mcp61-86 Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth:

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video

Actually using the old "nv" driver.

-Computer-
Processor : 4x AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
Memory : 2854MB (175MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.52
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Fri 11 Oct 2013 03:16:49 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

Everything working correctly on initial boot.

musher0 · Posted: Fri 11 Oct 2013, 16:30 Post subject:

Hello, people.

Can somebody validate that, in lupu-5.2.8.6,
* du is not working correctly
* a lot of the pdf* utilities in /usr/bin are missing some libraries?

I've experienced those problems and solved them, but if I'm the only one
experiencing them, I'll go find a therapist Shocked

instead of providing an upgrade
package. Sounds logical, eh? Smile

Thanks in advance.

musher0

Sylvander · Posted: Fri 11 Oct 2013, 19:01 Post subject:

bigpup · Posted: Sat 12 Oct 2013, 01:57 Post subject:

Sylvander · Posted: Sat 12 Oct 2013, 04:05 Post subject:

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