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[tentmaker_oz]

I am wondering if anyone has successfully installed wakepup on a fat32 harddrive to boot puppy files off the same hard drive.

I installed from Live CD to win98 fat32 hard drive, then copied and modified the files from the floppy to the C:\ root directory.

Config.sys errors on line 25
!SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:1024 /F /MSG /P=C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT

I can get past that, and everything appears to load, then it errors at init

VFS: Cannot open root devcie "<NULL>" or unknown-block (3,65)
please append a correct "root=" boot option
kernel panic...

Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks

Chris

[pakt]

I think you might find it easier to use grub4dos or linld.com for this.

Have you seen this thread: http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=5100 ?

[tentmaker_oz]

I got it working,

I booted with puppylinux (seamonkey) and installed to the hard drive, and created a wakepup bootdisk.
I copied all the files of the wakepup bootdisk to the root of C: drive of a Windows 98 drive. I didn't over write command.com or the dos system files (renamed them first).

I edited the config.sys and autoexec.bat files, disablind everything config.sys
and in autoexec.bat I put this as the line for LINLD.COM

LINLD.COM image=c:\vmlinux initrd=c:\initrd.gz "cl=root=/dev/ram0 rw image=pup_210.sfs"

The only other thing I would like to add is the option to boot into windows.
I tried adding a 4th option in the choices list.

I know I could do this in grub, but using the choice program I should be able to run Windows by putting c:\windows\win.com

Any advice for that ?

Thanks

Chris

[rcrsn51]

Put these lines in your autoexec.bat file

choice /N /C:WP "Press W-Windows or P-Puppy Linux: "
if errorlevel 2 LINLD image=c:\vmlinux initrd=c:\initrd.gz "cl=root=/dev/ram0 rw image=pup_210.sfs"

If you press W, the autoexec will terminate normally and start Windows

[tentmaker_oz]

too easy

Thanks for that, I trashed the old autoexec.bat and created a new one.
It works like a dream.
Puppy is quite fast even on 128 meg of ram.
Kudos to the people who work hard to make it what it is.

Hopefully this topic will help people get dual booting happening on a Win 98 fat32 partition with LINLD having to do the following

1. Boot Puppy from CD and install the Puppy files on the hard drive.
2. Create the boot floppy, copy the linld.com and choice.exe files off the floppy to the root of the hard drive. (None of the other files seem to be needed) - Don't overwrite Win98 partition's command.com
3. Edit the autoexec.bat to read
choice /N /C:WP /t:p,15 "Press W-Windows or P-Puppy Linux: "
LINLD.COM image=c:\vmlinux initrd=c:\initrd.gz "cl=root=/dev/ram0 rw image=pup_210.sfs"

I hope this helps others

God Bless

Chris

[rcrsn51]

I had trouble using LINLD on a couple of machines. There was a video conflict with the initial Win98 bootup and the screen would scramble. So I went to GRUB.EXE from the Grub4DOS package and it always works. Just make a menu.lst file with these entries:

rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PMEDIA=idehd
initrd /initrd.gz

[tentmaker_oz]

Great, it is good to have a couple of alternative ways to boot up, for different machines, I had problems with the Puppy Live CD even with boot floppy on a client's machine the other day.

can grub4dos run from a floppy ?

Chris

[rcrsn51]

Grub is pretty flexible. I expect that you can put grub.exe on a floppy and run it from autoexec.bat. You will need the menu.lst file I described above. It looks for the three Puppy files (vmlinuz, initrd.gz and pup_xxx.sfs) at the root of drive C:.

[tentmaker_oz]

I actually had to change "PMEDIA=idehd" to read "image=pup_210.sfs" to get it to work on my Compaq Laptop with NTFS drive

I had the same problem with linld.com on the Win98 machine, if I put "PMEDIA=idehd" it would hang
Changing to ""image=pup_210.sfs" made it work

Regards

Chris

[neevok]

[rcrsn51]

Delete the SHELL line from your CONFIG.SYS. In fact, you should be able to launch Puppy with no CONFIG.SYS at all. For the AUTOEXEC.BAT, see my posting above dated Oct.22. The third line is a continuation of the command on the second line.

[jim simon]

Sorry, I posted on wrong topic.

[Bruce B]