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spandey wrote:There are some unprintable characters before word savefile. Hence entire savefile argument has become meaningless. Looks like they came up while copying and pasting Grub2 entries in the editor. A very good lesson for future !!!!

For the benefit of other Fatdog-Grub2 users, could you please post your 40-custom file along with some instructions on how you used it in Mint? Where do you put the file? What update command do you run? etc.

menuentry "Lucid Puppy 5.2.8" {
 search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 672878ac-c0ca-453b-bc38-0de03ec38f63
 linux  /Luppuold/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd psubdir=Luppuold pfix=fsck 
 initrd /Luppuold/initrd.gz
} 

menuentry "Precise 5.4.1" {
 search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 672878ac-c0ca-453b-bc38-0de03ec38f63
 linux  /Precise/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd psubdir=Precise pfix=fsck 
 initrd /Precise/initrd.gz
}

menuentry "Fatdog 600" {
 search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 672878ac-c0ca-453b-bc38-0de03ec38f63
 linux  /Fatdog/vmlinuz savefile='ram:device:sda5:/Fatdog/fd64save.ext4'
 initrd /Fatdog/initrd
}

• Menu>Power-off
  The Create Save File Window pops: click Yes (Do you want to create a savefile now?)
  
  What follows is unexpected at end of desktop session
• Create Save File windows text dialogue changes to set/reset the system hostname: Changed it to FATDOG610-testing and clicked Next
  (this is unexpected because, all system changes including hostname changes should have occurred before reaching this point. Reason: Other system files and applications should have configured with hostname needs long before getting to this point in the system's use. This step really should be moved to system start and not at system end so that any tool that would utilize or need the final system hostname would have at their setups. But, I'm sure there are those who are going to argue this placement as a defensive.)
  
  Again, the following, too, is unexpected at end of desktop session
• Create Save File windows text dialogue changes to set/reset root's password: Changed it fatdog and clicked Next
  (This also is unexpected placement. Shouldn't this be also done at system's initial start.)
  
  Expected
• Create Save File windows text dialogue changes to choose save session device: Changed it /dev/sr0 (where the Live media presently resides) clicked "Save as multisession" (this is an unknown for which there is no documentation or desktop help for this new shutdown parameter) and clicked Next
  
  Expected
• Create Save File windows text dialogue changes to show status of some prior entries for confirmation: Viewing shows my prior selections and clicked Next
  
  Xdesktop is then exited and text terminal (console) continues with message that a fatdog ...sfs is being created. Immediately the system progresses with another message, then and within 15 seconds, the PC powers down without every saving of anything to the Live media.

gcmartin wrote:Xdesktop is then exited and text terminal (console) continues with message that a fatdog ...sfs is being created. Immediately the system progresses with another message, then and within 15 seconds, the PC powers down without every saving of anything to the Live media.

Could someone confirm the procedure

I saw something about forcing a connection to be retained somewhere?

Regarding your connection, Frisbee has an option that keeps the connection up if it's flakey.

gcmartin wrote:Problem Scenario
Booted the Live media FATDOG610. There is a SWAP partition on the HDD.
But, the booting system is either not detecting/ignoring it. This is a new problem for booting PUPs.

Here to help

jamesbond wrote: ... Fatdog requires manual configuration (by editing /etc/fstab) to activate the swap file.

gcmartin wrote:

jamesbond wrote: ... Fatdog requires manual configuration (by editing /etc/fstab) to activate the swap file.

Thanks for your responses.

If time permits, maybe this could be used by default with manual config step to turn it off or expand it if necessary. Just a thought. If useful, run with it.

spandey wrote:Using Fatdog, I opend a text file in some other linux partition using geany and without doing any changes just closed it. Will there be any changes to that file's attributes or attributes of any of it's parent directories?