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[pup]

Hello,

I have a problem trying to launch toutou linux.

Toutou is installed as recommended in the install procedure on hda7 (directory puppy 301).
Grub is installed on a floppy disk and on the boot sector of the hda7 partition. There are 3 options to launch toutou : win, toutou with kernel method (linux 1) and toutou with chainloader method. (linux 2) Unfortunately only Windows works !

Here are the menu.list file and the errors reported by grub. I am a beginner and would appreciate some help.

Fichier menu.lst
# Le fichier de configuration de GRUB '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.
# est genere par 'grubconfig'. Fri May 2 15:34:21 2008
#
# Lancer la section globale de GRUB
# timeout 30
color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
# Fin de la section globale de GRUB
# La configuration de la partition bootable commence
title Windows (on /dev/hda1)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
# La configuration de la partition bootable est finie
# La configuration de la partition bootable commence
title Linux 1 (on /dev/hda7)
root (hd0,6)
kernel /puppy301/vmlinuz pmedia=idehd psubdir=puppy301
initrd /puppy301/initrd.gz
# La configuration de l'autre partition bootable est finie
# La configuration de partition bootable commence
title Linux 2 (on /dev/hda7)
rootnoverify (hd0,6)
makeactive
chainloader +1
# La configuration de partition bootable finie

The errors :
For scenario Linux 1 :
Error 2 : bad file ou directory type

For scenario Linux 2 :
Error 12 : Invalid device requested

Thanks you very much.

Pup

[rcrsn51]

Launch Puppy (Toutou) from the Live CD and try to mount hda7. Does it contain a folder named puppy301? Does that folder contain the Puppy files vmlinuz, initrd.gz, pupxxx.sfs and zdrvxxx.sfs?

Then boot off the floppy disk. When the GRUB menu comes up, press the 'c' key to get the GRUB command line.

Type : find /puppy301/vmlinuz

Does GRUB find it at (hd0,6)?

[pup]

Hda7 includes the followings files : initrd.gz ; pup301toutou.sf ; vmlinuz ; zdrv_301.sfs ; idehd

When I try to find vmlinuz using the command line in grub I receive the following answer :
Error 15 : file not found

I don't understand why ?! Thanks for your help.

Comment : I also installed Grub4dos in the MBR and have the same problem !

[rcrsn51]

How is hda7 formatted - fat32, ext2, NTFS?

Try using the 'find' command to find a known file on one of your lower partitions.

[Aitch]

Hi

Maybe just a typo, but.....

[pup]

Yes it is pup301toutou.sfs. Sorry.

I have 3 ext3 formated partitions : hda7, hda8, hda9
Puppy is in the hda7 partition. Puppy save file is in hda8. Nothing is in the third partition.
I have also 3 NTFS partitions : hda1 (Windows), hda5 and hda6 (data)

When I place a file in the root of hda9 partitions (file menu) and try to find it using the grub find commnad, grub can't find it. Is there a problem with ext3 file system ? Apart that Toutou/Puppy works very well from the CD and use correctly the puppy save file in hda8.

Gerard

[muggins]

[rcrsn51]

@muggins:

Here is a scenario where a Linux can be booted with the chainloader command. Suppose you have a multi-OS system that is managed by a master GRUB setup. You are installing a new Linux in a partition. Its installer will also want to set up GRUB but you don't want to risk having it mess up your master version. And you don't know the specific commands to manually update your master menu.lst. So you let the new Linux install its own GRUB in the partition boot sector. It then becomes a completely self-contained OS. To boot it, you just need to add another entry to the master menu.lst that uses the chainloader command.

By the way, this method appears to be the "approved" way of multibooting Vista and Linux using EasyBCD. This presumes that you can safely shrink your Vista partition to make room for a Linux in the first place.

@pup:

In your other posting, I suggested that you try the 'find' command on a primary partition. Did that ever work? I can't think of a reason why your logical ext3 partitions should not be visible to GRUB.

[Aitch]

@pup

[pup]

@muggins

I tried Grub in the partition just as I could not boot directly from the kernel.

@rcrsn51

The find command doesn't work in grub placed in the floppy disk nor in the MBR using Grub4Dos.

@aitch

I try to find files in my three ext3 partitions without success.

I used Parted Magic CD which use GParted.

I would mention that my ext3 partitions are extended partitions not primary partitions. Has that some importance ?

I'll delete one partition and build a ext2 one and retry the find command.

Thanks.

pup

[rcrsn51]

This may be your problem!

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2008/05/grub_legacy_grub_2_and_ext34_s.html

The new Parted Magic may have formatted your partitions with an incompatible version of ext3.

Try reformatting with ext2.

[pup]

I reformated one of my partition (hda9) to ext2 and copied a file called menu.

I tried to find this file with grub from puppy. It doesn't work !

Here attached is a screen copy of the test.

Thanks for the advices.

Pup.

[rcrsn51]

This is odd. Unmount hda9 and run Puppy's Gparted. Delete this partition and recreate it as a primary ext2 partition. Then check it with find.

[pup]

Hda9 can't be mounted as a primary ext2 partition. Only as a logical partition (it is the only option proposed by G parted). In fact the partition is inserted into an extended partition and deleting it doesn't seem sufficient to recreate a primary partition.

Pup

[pup]

What looks strange to me is that when I run the find command I hear the floppy working as if it was searching for the file ?!

Pup