Xenial 64: Saved file exists but not recognized

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morochos
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#21 Post by morochos »

bigpup wrote:Running Xenialpup.
Does it access the hard drive OK?
Can read and write to it with no problems?

The last time Windows 10 was used.
Was it a complete power off shutdown or a hibernate shutdown?
Yes, it can access the HDD without problems. Windows 10 updated and used daily (due to problems with puppy)
No power off or hibernation. By the way, my brother used it (with his flash drive) in his laptop as has the same problem: The save file is not recognized

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#22 Post by bigpup »

What does Xenialpup name the hard drive?????
sda
sdb
sdc
etc.....

What are the desktop drive icons calling it??
Example:
A hard drive with two partitions.
The desktop drive icons are:
sda1
sda2
One for each partition on hard drive sda.
No power off or hibernation.
Try this:

Do a complete power off shutdown of computer when using Windows 10.
Make sure Windows 10 does not shutdown in hibernation mode.
This needs to be total power off condition.

Plug in the Xenialpup USB flash drive.
Power up the computer and boot Xenialpup.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
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morochos
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#23 Post by morochos »

bigpup wrote:What does Xenialpup name the hard drive?????
sda
sdb
sdc
etc.....

What are the desktop drive icons calling it??
Example:
A hard drive with two partitions.
The desktop drive icons are:
sda1
sda2
One for each partition on hard drive sda.
No power off or hibernation.
Try this:

Do a complete power off shutdown of computer when using Windows 10.
Make sure Windows 10 does not shutdown in hibernation mode.
This needs to be total power off condition.

Plug in the Xenialpup USB flash drive.
Power up the computer and boot Xenialpup.
They are called sda1 ( for ntfs) and sda5 ( for ext4). Parentheses are mine.
I did the power off as you said, nothing.
Also, I tried lowering and rising at extremes the saved file's size, nothing

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#24 Post by bigpup »

So far everything you are telling use seems to be normal.
The save should be seen and found.

What exactly is the name of the save?
Is the name all in lowercase letters?
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
YaPI(any iso installer)

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#25 Post by morochos »

bigpup wrote:So far everything you are telling use seems to be normal.
The save should be seen and found.

What exactly is the name of the save?
Is the name all in lowercase letters?
Yes, everything is lower case, just a common name, without numbers or special characters. I thing I will have to continue using Precise

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#26 Post by Sailor Enceladus »

It's been a while since I booted from USB or used UNetbootin but I looked at my old USB and found a file called syslinux.cfg with this:

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default puppy
display boot.msg
prompt 1
timeout 50

F1 boot.msg
F2 help.msg
F3 help2.msg

label puppy
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash
Perhaps adding psave=sda5 to the end of the append line would help, as described here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/puppy ... README.txt

If it's in a folder you might try something more specific like psave=sda5:/xenialpup64/xenialpup64save.4fs

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#27 Post by morochos »

Sailor Enceladus wrote:It's been a while since I booted from USB or used UNetbootin but I looked at my old USB and found a file called syslinux.cfg with this:

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default puppy
display boot.msg
prompt 1
timeout 50

F1 boot.msg
F2 help.msg
F3 help2.msg

label puppy
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash
Perhaps adding psave=sda5 to the end of the append line would help, as described here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/puppy ... README.txt

If it's in a folder you might try something more specific like psave=sda5:/xenialpup64/xenialpup64save.4fs
Hi
The code now is different:

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#display help/boot.msg
default xenialpup
prompt 1
timeout 100

#F1 help/boot.msg
F2 help/help.msg
F3 help/help2.msg


ui /menu.c32
menu resolution 800 600
menu title xenialpup Live
menu background xenial.png
menu tabmsg Press Tab to edit entry, F2 for help, Esc for boot prompt
menu color border 37;40  #80ffffff #00000000 std
menu color sel 7;37;40 #80ffffff #20ff8000 all
menu margin 1
menu rows 20
menu tabmsgrow 26
menu cmdlinerow -2
menu passwordrow 19
menu timeoutrow 28
menu helpmsgrow 30



label xenialpup
linux vmlinuz
initrd initrd.gz
append pmedia=cd
menu label xenialpup
text help
Start xenialpup normally.
endtext


label xenialpup-fsck
linux vmlinuz
initrd initrd.gz
append pfix=fsck pmedia=cd
menu label xenialpup filesystem check
text help
Start xenialpup normally with save filesystem check.
endtext


label xenialpup-ram
linux vmlinuz
initrd initrd.gz
append pfix=ram pmedia=cd
menu label xenialpup with no savefile
text help
Start xenialpup with no savefile RAM only.
endtext


label xenialpup-nox
linux vmlinuz
initrd initrd.gz
append pfix=nox pmedia=cd
menu label xenialpup without graphical desktop
text help
Start xenialpup in command-line mode (Linux console). 
Graphical desktop later can be started by typing "xwin".
endtext


menu separator

label xenialpup-nokms
linux vmlinuz
initrd initrd.gz
append pfix=ram,nox pmedia=cd
menu label For machines with severe video problems
text help
Start xenialpup without savefile, without KMS, and run xorgwizard 
to choose video resolutions before starting graphical desktop.
endtext
Where can I set what you suggest?
And, if you are not booting your puppy linux with a usb now, how are you booting it?
Thanks for your interest

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#28 Post by bigpup »

morochos wrote:
bigpup wrote:So far everything you are telling use seems to be normal.
The save should be seen and found.

What exactly is the name of the save?
Is the name all in lowercase letters?
Yes, everything is lower case, just a common name, without numbers or special characters. I thing I will have to continue using Precise
Please answer the questions with specific information.
The exact name of the save is important!!!
The boot process is looking for a very specific name and no other.!!!!!!
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
YaPI(any iso installer)

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#29 Post by Sailor Enceladus »

morochos wrote:And, if you are not booting your puppy linux with a usb now, how are you booting it?
Hi, for about 3-4 years I have been booting puppies from Hard Drive using grub4dos. I can dual-boot puppy with Windows XP or 7 or DOS on Hard Drive but on my main laptop I just wiped Windows from the hard drive with GParted instead because the XP was pausing randomly. I have not had to deal with UEFI and Secure Boot because my old laptops never seem to die and just keep working great. :lol:

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#30 Post by morochos »

Finally, the issue is showing a positive change!

If you remember, I mentioned 2 computers experimenting this problem: The first, one desktop PC with 2 partitions, one ext4 and one ntfs with windows 10. And the second computer, my brother's laptop with just one ntfs partition with windows 10.

The laptop gave to me the first advance. In that computer, I partitioned the HDD to make an ext4 partition. In that section, I move the puppy save file and reboot: Problem solved!

Now, I have to find a solution for the PC with 2 partitions.

Thanks, all of you, for your help

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#31 Post by headfound »

I think I know what's going on here, I recently had a similar problem.

Go into Windows 10.
Open the control panel (the old fashioned one! You can search for control panel and open it from there)
Go into power options and click 'choose what power buttons do'
Click 'Change settings that are currently unavailable'
Scroll down to Shutdown settings and uncheck 'Turn on fast startup'
Click 'save changes'

Reboot and try puppy

When Windows 10 has fast startup enabled, it locks the drive because it's hibernated meaning nothing else can write to it so your savefile will not work. I wiped a perfectly good savefile trying to figure this out!

Hope this helps

** Extra **
Also check you have the right partition as others have stated as Windows creates lots on install. My main Windows partition where my savefile lives is the fourth partition (hd0,4)
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#32 Post by morochos »

headfound wrote:I think I know what's going on here, I recently had a similar problem.

Go into Windows 10.
Open the control panel (the old fashioned one! You can search for control panel and open it from there)
Go into power options and click 'choose what power buttons do'
Click 'Change settings that are currently unavailable'
Scroll down to Shutdown settings and uncheck 'Turn on fast startup'
Click 'save changes'

Reboot and try puppy

When Windows 10 has fast startup enabled, it locks the drive because it's hibernated meaning nothing else can write to it so your savefile will not work. I wiped a perfectly good savefile trying to figure this out!

Hope this helps

** Extra **
Also check you have the right partition as others have stated as Windows creates lots on install. My main Windows partition where my savefile lives is the fourth partition (hd0,4)
Hi, thanks for the info. I will test this later. I don't have this pc with me now. I will update this topic in some days. Best wishes

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