Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

jptsetung · Joined: 21 Feb 2018 Posts: 5

Hi,

I'm trying to launch the PuppyLinux live iso from a a multiboot grub menuentry.

So far it didn't work.

I have this menu entry in my grub cfg file :

jptsetung · Joined: 21 Feb 2018 Posts: 5

Here is the screenshot of the puppy boot console

https://photos.app.goo.gl/XjuxHGMgEiD8R08C3

watchdog · Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 1833 Location: Italy

Mike Walsh · Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 5067 Location: King's Lynn, UK.

@jpsetung:-

The whole problem you're encountering is down to one thing. In normal operation, GRUB2 simply doesn't 'see' Puppy. At all.

That's due to the way Puppy works.....especially with a 'frugal' install. You may get on better with a 'full' install (although that's only recommended for RAM-challenged machines, normally.....and you tend to lose out on many of Puppy's more awesome features, like being being able to load/unload SFS packages 'on-the-fly'.)

GRUB2 looks for a /boot folder, and I don't think even a 'full' Puppy install uses one of those. So, try watchdog's advice from above; you have to give GRUB2 different instructions as to how to 'see' Pup.

Mike. Wink

jptsetung · Joined: 21 Feb 2018 Posts: 5

I tried watchdog's menuentry, but I still get the exact same error. I'll try to see if some multi boot usb tools know how to do it. I found this interesting one but no puppy linux entry https://github.com/thias/glim/tree/master/grub2

watchdog · Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 1833 Location: Italy

Try again my menuentry but before booting extract from the iso file the puppy_xenialpup_7.5.sfs and the zdrv_xenialpup_7.5.sfs at root directory of sdb3. I can boot xenialpup 7.5 ISO file in a sdb1 usb hd with the following menuentry:

fredx181 · Joined: 11 Dec 2013 Posts: 3959 Location: holland

I have grub2 installed on one of my USB sticks and a normal frugal install works fine for me (formatted as ext2).
EDIT: Tried when formatted as ext4, works fine also.
(extracted the contents of the Tahr ISO in folder "tahr")

jafadmin · Joined: 19 Mar 2009 Posts: 895

If you drop a copy of the puppy_xenialpup_7.5.sfs on sda3, it should boot.

It's a limitation of Grub2

jptsetung · Joined: 21 Feb 2018 Posts: 5

OK thank you all, I'll probably try to extract the ISO somewhere then, I'll let you know.

jptsetung · Joined: 21 Feb 2018 Posts: 5

Nice, it's working! Thank you all.

So in the end here is the process.

Unarchive the .iso somewhere, corresponding to the $basepath variable in the menuentry.

And use this menuentry (note I used parameters to set the default layout to azerty, not sure which options are useful, but in the end it works, but my puppy was in azerty after the boot) (8883-AD5A is the partition uuid where the .iso was unarchived).