Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[armein.z.r.langi]

Is there anybody that is able to boot 4.1.2 on a PC without a hard disk?

I downloaded puppy 4.1.2 iso and burned it on a cd. I could boot the CD on various PCs, but failed on a diskless PC. An old puppy 2.15CE CD boots fine on that diskless PC.

[ICPUG]

Does Puppy 4.0 work?

If it does then I expect this is tied up with 4.1.2 wanting to save the sfs file to a hard drive.

If it is this then someone has gotta change the initrd.gz to stop it doing it.

[Bruce B]

[ICPUG]

Thanks Bruce.

If armein.z.r.langi reports back that 4.0 DOES work then this feature(?) of 4.1.x turns from an irritating bug to a real nasty bug.

I would hope the developers of future pups will take more notice, especially if someone can tell them what mods are needed to the init script to sort it.

We currently have 3 projects that I think are useful which may have this bug in. 4.1.2 barebones; Ultrapup by WOW and maybe 4.2 from Who Do.

I wonder what these developers have to say?

[PaulBx1]

I tried booting diskless with my Sony Vaio and it worked fine.

I think we need more information from armein for his particular case, such as turning the debug level up high (if that actually does anything) and where he gets stuck, and what his pc is. Also, it should be reported in the 4.1.2 bug thread.

[Flash]

I'm running Puppy 4.2 from a multisession DVD in a computer without a hard disk drive. This is basically the same for your purposes as booting a Puppy live CD.

Armein, you say it failed. How far did it get? What error messages were displayed?

[armein.z.r.langi]

Sorry we are having Christmas break here in Indonesia, so I cannot respond earlier. And the PC is in my office, I cannot try 4.0 before Monday.

I used a NON multisession CD (final burned). I got through the boot menu, and it reached to the point of searching puppy sfs, and it stopped, giving me a command line prompt with red color.

I used the same CD on my MacMini, and it booted fine. I also used it on my daughter PC successfully.

I appreciate your responses very much. I am sorry I cannot give precise reports until I can get back to my office on Monday.

Best regards

[armein.z.r.langi]

The PC is AMD Sempron with 1 Gb memory. With 4.1.2 buut CD, I got into:

Searching for Puppy files in computer disk drive...

(and it gave me red error message:)

Pup_412.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console...

(and I got command prompt:)

/bin.sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

I will try to run it on Virtual Box and see what will happen.
Best regards

[Evil20071]

Ah. Re-download and burn again. You are missing a few KB or so off of one of the files. Also, always check the MD5SUM of the iso BEFORE burning. It helps avoid these issues. If you're in windows, there's a tool and guide [url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=36491]HERE[/url}. Hope this helps you out.

[armein.z.r.langi]

I report the 4.1.2 CD works fine in VirtualBox with no harddrive. So I believe it is an issue with my PC CDROM, not the 4.1.2 disk. I will stop this topic/thread until I find interesting things to report. Thank you for your supports and comments.

@evil20071: Thanks. I verified it already. This is my second burn. And it worked on many machines except that PC.

[paulh177]

armein -- it would be helpful to know if the message is

[rjbrewer]

The live cd or cd with puppy pfix=ram should say "loading to ram",
not "searching for files". Seems like there's a hard drive hiding
somewhere in that "diskless PC".

rjb

[Bruce B]

ICPUG,