I have not been able to get a frugal install to boot--I never see the grub menu, all i see is an underscore at the top left of the screen, everything else blank--this is like when there is no boot disk.Hmm, I wonder if there is a problem with GRUB patched with ext4. Could you kindly install this older pet package (as used in 4.1x):
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... b-0.97.pet
Then try the frugal installation again. Probably best to remove the previous install and do it completely again.
I have tried ext 2 and ext 3. i feel like i am going crazy and overlooking something obvious since i have done frugal installs so many times. it didn't help to use the pet. the boot flag is set on the /dev/sda1 partition--grub menu is there in /boot/grub with the proper language from /tmp/Newgrubtext. Puppy is in /puppy424. sorry if i've got my head in a dark place