X-Slacko Slim 4.4r49 (unique, stable, and flexible)
vanilla
Hi mistfire
I got some time to try the vanilla/fallback initrd and it works! It finds the savefile now.
Do I miss something now? Is there something in the 'normal' init that is not in the vanilla init?
I still have to solve the problem with the beeps and audio.
I wanted to switch off the touchpad (because I am clumsy ) but when I clicked it in the Input Wizard I got "Couldn't find synoptic properties. No synaptics driver loaded?"
Maybe I have to try the extra drivers.
I got some time to try the vanilla/fallback initrd and it works! It finds the savefile now.
Do I miss something now? Is there something in the 'normal' init that is not in the vanilla init?
I still have to solve the problem with the beeps and audio.
I wanted to switch off the touchpad (because I am clumsy ) but when I clicked it in the Input Wizard I got "Couldn't find synoptic properties. No synaptics driver loaded?"
Maybe I have to try the extra drivers.
So it is the other way around: something is missing in the normal initmistfire wrote:@foxpup indeed that there is something missing in the normal init and I will try to fix it. I think that your touchpad is not synaptic. I think hotkeys in your keyboard to enable/disable touchpad might work.
I tried with the extra fdrv from LxPupSc but that did not resolve the audio, nor the touchpad problem.
I can turn off the touchpad in the Input Wizard in other Puppies. I will look for the hotkeys too.
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Hi mistfire, somehow I'm not able to boot your distro. I get a message telling me that puppy_xslacko_4.4.sfs can't be found.
This is my entry in grub4dos, which basically is what I use for other Slackos. The only difference is that other Slackos use initrd.gz instead of initrd.xz:
This the content of the the source directory:
I also tried initrd-fallback.xz. Same result. Related to the xz compression? What am I doing wrong?
This is my entry in grub4dos, which basically is what I use for other Slackos. The only difference is that other Slackos use initrd.gz instead of initrd.xz:
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title Puppy Slacko Slim
kernel /pup_slacko_slim/vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash pfix=ram
initrd /pup_slacko_slim/initrd.xz
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# ls -l /mnt/home/pup_slacko_slim
total 162696
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1032108 Nov 23 17:58 initrd-fallback.xz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1804512 Nov 22 15:31 initrd.xz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 149676032 Dec 13 00:17 puppy_xslacko_4.4.sfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4944368 Nov 27 23:21 vmlinuz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9129984 Nov 23 14:54 zdrv_xslacko_4.4.sfs
audio
This is from pup-sysinfo in slacko64-6.9.9.9:mistfire wrote:@foxpup may I know the name and model of your sound card and touchpad?
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Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio [8086:9d70] (rev 21)
+ Kernel Driver: snd_hda_intel
+ Memory Used: 21.48 KB
+ Path: /lib/modules/4.9.30/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko
+ Description: Intel HDA driver
Just another minor thing: setting the numeric lock on startup does not work. Maybe it does for a moment, the indicator turns on and then off again almost immediately.
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@MochiMoppel you installed X-Slacko Slim in a subfolder so the name of subfolder must be specifiedMochiMoppel wrote:Hi mistfire, somehow I'm not able to boot your distro. I get a message telling me that puppy_xslacko_4.4.sfs can't be found.
This is my entry in grub4dos, which basically is what I use for other Slackos. The only difference is that other Slackos use initrd.gz instead of initrd.xz:This the content of the the source directory:Code: Select all
title Puppy Slacko Slim kernel /pup_slacko_slim/vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash pfix=ram initrd /pup_slacko_slim/initrd.xz
I also tried initrd-fallback.xz. Same result. Related to the xz compression? What am I doing wrong?Code: Select all
# ls -l /mnt/home/pup_slacko_slim total 162696 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1032108 Nov 23 17:58 initrd-fallback.xz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1804512 Nov 22 15:31 initrd.xz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 149676032 Dec 13 00:17 puppy_xslacko_4.4.sfs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4944368 Nov 27 23:21 vmlinuz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9129984 Nov 23 14:54 zdrv_xslacko_4.4.sfs
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title Puppy Slacko Slim
kernel /pup_slacko_slim/vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash pfix=ram psubdir=pup_slacko_slim
initrd /pup_slacko_slim/initrd.xz
I have the same problem, can not find puppy_xslacko_4.4.sfs, my menu.lst looks like this, the other two pups boot fine.mistfire wrote:@MochiMoppel you installed X-Slacko Slim in a subfolder so the name of subfolder must be specifiedMochiMoppel wrote:Hi mistfire, somehow I'm not able to boot your distro. I get a message telling me that puppy_xslacko_4.4.sfs can't be found.
This is my entry in grub4dos, which basically is what I use for other Slackos. The only difference is that other Slackos use initrd.gz instead of initrd.xz:This the content of the the source directory:Code: Select all
title Puppy Slacko Slim kernel /pup_slacko_slim/vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash pfix=ram initrd /pup_slacko_slim/initrd.xz
I also tried initrd-fallback.xz. Same result. Related to the xz compression? What am I doing wrong?Code: Select all
# ls -l /mnt/home/pup_slacko_slim total 162696 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1032108 Nov 23 17:58 initrd-fallback.xz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1804512 Nov 22 15:31 initrd.xz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 149676032 Dec 13 00:17 puppy_xslacko_4.4.sfs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4944368 Nov 27 23:21 vmlinuz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9129984 Nov 23 14:54 zdrv_xslacko_4.4.sfs
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title Puppy Slacko Slim kernel /pup_slacko_slim/vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash pfix=ram psubdir=pup_slacko_slim initrd /pup_slacko_slim/initrd.xz
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# menu.lst produced by grub4dosconfig-v1.9.2
color white/blue black/cyan white/black cyan/black
#splashimage=/splash.xpm
timeout 10
default 0
# Frugal installed Puppy
title Puppy xtahr 2.0 (sda1/xtahr2.0frugal)
uuid 4194cebe-228c-457e-a401-5b899247bfd1
kernel /xtahr2.0frugal/vmlinuz psubdir=xtahr2.0frugal pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
initrd /xtahr2.0frugal/initrd.gz
title Puppy stretch 7.0.0a2 (sda1/stretch_7.0.0a2frugal)
uuid 4194cebe-228c-457e-a401-5b899247bfd1
kernel /stretch_7.0.0a2frugal/vmlinuz psubdir=stretch_7.0.0a2frugal pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
initrd /stretch_7.0.0a2frugal/initrd.gz
title Puppy xslacko 4.4 (sda1/xslacko_4.4frugal)
uuid 4194cebe-228c-457e-a401-5b899247bfd1
kernel /xslacko_4.4frugal/vmlinuz psubdir=xslacko_4.4frugal pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
initrd /xslacko_4.4frugal/initrd.xz
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As the sfs main file is in the same folder as initrd.xz and vmlinuz Puppy should find it, but I also tried psubdir as you proposed. No change, can't find puppy_xslacko_4.4.sfs. Here my full grub4dos menu, All other pups start without a psubdir parameter:mistfire wrote:@MochiMoppel you installed X-Slacko Slim in a subfolder so the name of subfolder must be specified
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title Puppy Slacko 5.6
kernel /pup_slacko/vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash pfix=ram
initrd /pup_slacko/initrd.gz
title Puppy Slacko Slim
kernel /pup_slacko_slim/vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash pfix=ram psubdir=pup_slacko_slim
initrd /pup_slacko_slim/initrd.xz
title Puppy Slacko 6.3.2
kernel /pup_slacko632/vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash pfix=ram
initrd /pup_slacko632/initrd.gz
title Puppy Tahr 6
kernel /pup_tahr/vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash pfix=ram
initrd /pup_tahr/initrd.gz
@ mistfire, here are the initrd temp files, I had to insert a usb flash drive to save them to, I didn't see anything that would help me, hope this is what you wanted
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I have analyzed the logs from initrd temp that you sent I noticed that the probepart returns "none" or unknown filesystem on your drive
Thanks for these file. I will analyze further the init script
@MochiMoppel did you try that psubdir parameter in initrd.xz and initrd-fallback.xz. Can you please send me the initrd/tmp files here
I have analyzed the logs from initrd temp that you sent I noticed that the probepart returns "none" or unknown filesystem on your drive
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ONEDEV=sda SIZE= DEVICE=
SIZE=0 FSTYPE=unknown
/dev/sda|none|0
ONEDEV=sdb SIZE= DEVICE=
SIZE=0 FSTYPE=unknown
/dev/sdb|none|0
ONEDEV=sdc SIZE= DEVICE=
SIZE=0 FSTYPE=unknown
/dev/sdc|none|0
ONEDEV=sdd SIZE= DEVICE=
SIZE=0 FSTYPE=unknown
/dev/sdd|none|0
ONEDEV=sde SIZE= DEVICE=
ONEDEV=sde1 SIZE=3914752 DEVICE=sde1
SIZE=3914752 FSTYPE=vfat
/dev/sde1|vfat|7829504
@MochiMoppel did you try that psubdir parameter in initrd.xz and initrd-fallback.xz. Can you please send me the initrd/tmp files here
The hdd has two ext4 partitions, the save initrd temp didn't find it either, I had to use a fat formatted USB flash drive to save the files to.mistfire wrote:@Geoffrey
I have analyzed the logs from initrd temp that you sent I noticed that the probepart returns "none" or unknown filesystem on your drive
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Bothmistfire wrote:@MochiMoppel did you try that psubdir parameter in initrd.xz and initrd-fallback.xz.
??? IIRC initrd.xz offered the option to save (?) tmp files. This option resulted in kernel panic.Can you please send me the initrd/tmp files here
I finally managed to boot X-Slacko Slim 4.4r4 from root level (no subdirs), but this is not an acceptable workaround. I also had problems with shutdown. I booted from sdb1 (USB stick), kept sda unmounted but spinning. At shutdown the HDD spins down, followed by the 'Now shutting off message' which caused the HDD to spin on again, followed by a kernel panic.
I give up for now.
@Geoffrey and @MochiMoppel it looks like probepart command on initrd has a problem on detecting gpt partition or there is a bug in the kernel that should be fix.
By the way I will try to download and compile later linux kernel. I heard that there is a bug on version 4.14.0 that can cause disk corruption.
By the way I will try to download and compile later linux kernel. I heard that there is a bug on version 4.14.0 that can cause disk corruption.
Mistfire the vmlinuz seems to be the problem, I swapped the one from xslacko and it booted, but the old P4 PC I'm using has a SIS video on board and it fails to run.
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I understand that, it was the fact that the puppy_xslacko_4.4.sfs was found and loaded by trying the vmlinuz from rg66's xslacko.mistfire wrote:@Geoffrey if you swap the kernel file the kernel modules inside the sfs file must be replaced. If will fail to run X because modules for the kernel that you swap is missing
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New X-Slacko Slim iteration released
Changes:
* Linux kernel 4.14.3
* Some fixes on initrd
* HTML5 audio now working on midori
* Can now easily assign static ip to eaxh network adapter
* Stampede Linux package support (via package coversion)
* More bugfixes
Download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GaZb1 ... ifnUTsXWuP
MD5 Checksum: 64418578ce5abc6d94c4cf4d49b36f2b
Changes:
* Linux kernel 4.14.3
* Some fixes on initrd
* HTML5 audio now working on midori
* Can now easily assign static ip to eaxh network adapter
* Stampede Linux package support (via package coversion)
* More bugfixes
Download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GaZb1 ... ifnUTsXWuP
MD5 Checksum: 64418578ce5abc6d94c4cf4d49b36f2b
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