You share 2 different issues in your post
1st Issue
FATDOG64-6xx presents 2 new unique departures to traditional PUP use.rover wrote:Hi all,
I am at a point where I boot from usb with a flashdrive, and the boot process then shows the fatdog splash screen and hangs. ... Also, when I do boot fatdog from cd, ...
- UEFI boot processing
- Boot Manager
Much of what is covered here, in this thread, should be in the main thread so more FATDOG support eyes can see and support this important topic: topic = "Boot processing in FATDOG64-6xx". But, I do see value, too, by separating it to getting customed attention as its getting here.
I know that @JamesBond has taken time to try to explain this on off-site webpages, but, the message in its placement and further increasing details are NOT easily found by his webpages by the many non-technical types that do attempt FATDOG64-6xx, for it is a new approach in its deployment.
You mentioned CD, so I can only assume you may have gone from ISO to CD. This "may" be a problem. But, if you have used a DVD in multisession mode, you may be able to get your system to activate as you wish.
Questions
- Are you using DVDs?
- Is the PC you testing on UEFI system with its EFI features turned on?
On your hard-drive (abbreviated "HDD") most systems over the years come with 3 partitions, some had 4 partitions. Not sure in your case. But to address this, you could help us by:rover wrote:... seeing 5 hard drive partitions and the cd and a usb dongle if I have that attached.
They show up as sda1,sda2 etc to 5.
my hard drive is a new laptop hd, with the usual first partition used by toshiba with the reinstall fallback, and then the second is the actual win 8.1 operating system. I have no idea what the other 3 are unless my playing around created them somehow
- Indicating which FATDOG6xx version you are running (630rc1, 620, 630, ???)
- opening GPARTED to your HDD
- copy the GPARTED screen
- posting a picture of your HDD
Hope this helps us help you.