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[coffy]

Tried to boot up slacko 6.3 this morning and all i got was the following:

wee 0> find --set-root /grldr
wee 15> /grldr
wee 17>

Could some one help me please.

[spiritwild]

This may help

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=109778

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=95015[/url]

[coffy]

Hello spiritwild

I was given the machine by a friend of mine and it ran Puppy Slacko yesterday evening without displaying any problems. The machine is an Acer Aspire x3400. Was a waste of my time visiting the Acer UK site. Nothing there i could find.

I have never come across this problem before. I have tried running other versions of Puppy like tahrpup and slacko plus gparted and even debian and tiny core. As soon as i restart the machine it does look for an OS but then displays the following each and every time:

wee 0> find --set-root /grldr
wee 15> /grldr
wee 17>

Have been trying to use Google to find an answer but no luck!

Big thanks for taking the timeout to reply and the two links.

[Galbi]

To get help, more information is needed, you are trying to boot Puppy, from where?
A pendrive? perhaps,
How was made bootable?
The PC, has a CD-ROM unit?

[Mike Walsh]

Hi, coffy.

There's another thread running in the Forum about something very similar:-

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=111343

I was kinda expecting to find some similarities.....like you were perhaps using the same machines, or running the same Puppy. But no; different Pups, different hardware.

The only thing that occurs to me is to boot into a Puppy LiveCD ( if you've got an optical drive) of a different Pup, and use it to re-install Grub4DOS from there. If no optical drive, then you'd need to create a 'Pup-on-a-stick', and use that instead.....

(And, curiously, these are both fairly new Pups; both Woof-CE (community edition) versions...) Although Tahr 6.05 has been around for long enough now (in one form or another) that it's pretty much rock-solid. Micko, on the other hand, has been having quite a number of problems, one way or another, with the Slackware-based Puppies.....maybe more than his fair share. I wouldn't like to say; I don't know enough about that side of things to offer advice, or otherwise.

Perhaps this is a long-standing Grub4DOS 'bug' that's finally coming home to roost. Or another in the series of occasional bugs that have plagued newer versions of gParted..... Who knows?

There's always a 'workaround' for every problem. It's just a case of figuring it out for this one; it might not be 'elegant', but.....if it works?


Mike.

[coffy]

Hi Galbi and Mike Walsh

The PC does have a CD-ROM unit. I had burnt the OS to a CD disk. But i also tried to run Slacko from a USB drive and failed?

From the links Mike Walsh provided i just don't understand how to reformat the drive or how to change the MBR.

All i see when i boot up the machine is:

wee 0> find --set-root /grldr
wee 15> /grldr
wee 17>

Was just wondering if there was something like a Puppy rescue cd i could use
to resolve this problem?

[foxpup]

Hi coffy

If you can bootup a puppy from cd or usb you can reinstall grub4dos and mbr on the HDD.
First check that the flag "boot" is set on the partition you want to use. You can do that with gParted.
Then run grub4dos and let it install mbr.

[coffy]

Hello foxpup

The machine will not boot up a puppy cd or any other linux cd. I have tried running GParted with out any success. The only thing the machine will display is when i press F12 on the keyboard during boot up. I then arrive at the select boot device options window.
The two options i am given are to select either:

Hard drive
CD&DVD

Those are the only options available. And selecting either one will almost instantly return me to the window displaying:

wee 0> find --set-root /grldr
wee 15> /grldr
wee 17>

The machine must have been cheap as chips when new.

On the verge of chucking the useless machine through the bedroom window lol.

[Galbi]

@coffy, do you have access to another machine in which try to boot both the cd and the pendrive?
Just to confirm they work fine.

Edit: I've ggogled "wee bootloader" and found this article:
http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/wee

I gues that someone has been playing with that bootloader, and something went wrong...

Please tell us:
you do what?
you see what?

Saludos.

[coffy]

Hiya Galbi
I am running tahrpup "live cd" on another pc no problem. Shall try it in the problem pc and let you know if there's any change.

[coffy]

Just tried the tahrpup "live cd" in the problem machine with the same results.

No one has been tampering with the machine that i know of?

Would it make any difference if i removed the hard drive?

[foxpup]

[Mike Walsh]

[foxpup]

I just came on this thread:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=111346

It happened before.
mikeslr gives a link to a topic from LidiaS. I should have remembered it.

But I still do not fully understand.

EDIT: I see now Mike already pointed to the topic, well, a related one.

[bigpup]