Hello to everyone...I am just one day new to Puppy and I love it already. Yesterday I revitalized an older P3 700MHz 128RAM Compaq with loading and installing puppyoffice onto the harddrive. I work for a charity and I am going to probably repeat this on other computers so people who need to cross the so called digital divide can do so by utilizing puppy and open-office apps.
Here is my case:
I formatted the HD from scratch into a EXT3(16GB) and also a Swap(2GB) partition. The computer is exclusively a puppy computer. I followed the good advice from many in this forum and successfully did a HD installation. I found that I had to install GRUB into the MBR to actually boot into puppy.
Question:
Is there a way that the user can puch the power on the computer and directly load up puppy? That is bypassing the Grub dialogue?
Your help is gratefully appreciated.
How do I boot from HD without Grub?
This isn't going to bypass grub, but it will give you the end result (I think) that you are looking for.
I only add this to the last response, so that you can better understand the mechanics of what you are doing.
Boot to puppy desktop.
Click the home icon.
Click the up arrow (twice I think) to get to where you see a "boot" icon.
Click that, click "grub" click menu.lst (this will open the grub menu)
Find the line that says #Timeout
Remove the hashmark (the # sign from the beginning of that line)
Use the right arrow key to move the cursor over to the end ouf the word timeout.
Put a space after the word "timeout" and put 1 (this gives you a second timeout before grub follows the next instruction... you can further edit this to 0 later if everything is working the way you want it) You can even remove the lines of text from the bottom of the menu.lst, about installing grub, etc., if you don't want them to appear on screen.
Next hit enter to go to a new line.
Now type:
default 0
Assuming that there's only one boot option on the machine (Puppy), then this will boot grub, but automatically boot into the Puppy OS.
If you need more help, just ask.
Thanks for trying Puppy Linux and Good luck to you!
I only add this to the last response, so that you can better understand the mechanics of what you are doing.
Boot to puppy desktop.
Click the home icon.
Click the up arrow (twice I think) to get to where you see a "boot" icon.
Click that, click "grub" click menu.lst (this will open the grub menu)
Find the line that says #Timeout
Remove the hashmark (the # sign from the beginning of that line)
Use the right arrow key to move the cursor over to the end ouf the word timeout.
Put a space after the word "timeout" and put 1 (this gives you a second timeout before grub follows the next instruction... you can further edit this to 0 later if everything is working the way you want it) You can even remove the lines of text from the bottom of the menu.lst, about installing grub, etc., if you don't want them to appear on screen.
Next hit enter to go to a new line.
Now type:
default 0
Assuming that there's only one boot option on the machine (Puppy), then this will boot grub, but automatically boot into the Puppy OS.
If you need more help, just ask.
Thanks for trying Puppy Linux and Good luck to you!
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Good that it's working.
Just to expand:
Grub is a Boot manager. You could use other boot managers but you definetivelly need one.
I'm glad that just bypassing the grub menu was enough.
Just to expand:
Grub is a Boot manager. You could use other boot managers but you definetivelly need one.
I'm glad that just bypassing the grub menu was enough.
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