Posted: Sat 01 Mar 2014, 15:37
Hi @Rover
You share 2 different issues in your post
1st Issue
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
Hope this helps us help you.
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.