Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10548 Location: SwedenEurope

BigPup, my text was misleading you.

It boots but goes into kernel panic something.

it always when I activate debug stop at

b43-pci-bridge ... IRQ 16 then a blinking cursor

Karl Godt in a thread suggested this:

bigpup · Posted: Mon 20 Dec 2010, 04:06 Post subject:

sasaqqdan · Posted: Fri 31 Dec 2010, 00:58 Post subject:

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2664 Location: Japan

sasaqqdan

Stripe · Posted: Fri 07 Jan 2011, 06:33 Post subject:

Hi shinobar

I am still working on a usb based system (in slackpup) and was thinking what was the easiest/simplest way to make a frugal install work when extracted from a package to a usb stick. I was wanting to use an ext file system so the boot to usb is out. Obviously with the way grub4dos is working I thought of you.

Do you think it would be possible to modify grub4dos to make it Independent so if it was placed with a frugal install on a usb stick, when run it would automatically detect the puppy, make the usb boot-able and produce the menu? or even just make the usb boot-able so the puppy would run?

Sorry for being a nuisance

Stripe

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2664 Location: Japan

Stripe · Posted: Fri 07 Jan 2011, 06:52 Post subject:

Sorry shinobar if I was not clear

what I was thinking was a static version that could be packaged with the vmlniuz, intrid.gz and the pup-xxx-sfs in a tgz

so that when the package was unpacked on the usb stick, you would just click on the grub4dos and it would automaticaly install on that usb stick making the puppy able to run on that usb stick

Hope I explained it better this time

Thanks
Stripe

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2664 Location: Japan

Stripe · Posted: Fri 07 Jan 2011, 07:04 Post subject:

Thanks Shinobar

I will go and check that out, I just thought if we could give people a simple option of downloading a usb image as well as an iso. It would broaden the appeal of puppy

Thanks again

Stripe

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

@Shinobar
This appears to add a feature where a CD can be booted from GRUB.

I haven't tried this: but

Would this work for GRUB4DOS?
Would this provide an ability to select and boot a CD on bios-PCs that won't boot from CD?
Do you have a similar procedure somewhere that's an example of booting a LiveCD thru Grub4DOS?

Thanks in advance
P.S. Here's another discussion you may find of interest.

P.S. I run a LiveCD environment on PCs that have 2 CD/DVD drives and diskette readers if theres concern on what types of PCs I use.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2664 Location: Japan

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10548 Location: SwedenEurope

One can boot but can one save things? Puppy though can not do iso boot.

Slitaz can be iso booted.

They had a thread on ubuntu forums a guys that listed how he made an USB mem stick do to iso boots of many OS. But very few seemed to be interested in it.

I was but I am a propeller head so I an too confused to grasp what is going on. But I did manage to boot a few too so even on my level if one follow instructions it can work. But that is for USB it does not work for frugal iso booting unless the OS is set up that way by the developer to allow it.

But from CD/DVD most likely it would work. The USB iso boot is trying to emulate a CD boot so CD should work even better.

The reason Puppy fail to do iso boot is explained by Shinobar above.

the sfs file is separate. On other OS they have it in two files or one file and that make them available for iso boot but then they can only save on nother partition or on a special "casper" file or a special save file for that OS.

But I know too little but wanted to do it too. I have the motivation bit not the means.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2664 Location: Japan

Now available the test release which supports Partition Boot Sector(PBS) install and Reiserfs(limited support).

grub4dos-0.4.4.v1.6.9.pet (Update: 16 Jan 2011) Download from here
See the document for the detail.

Testing and feed back are welcomed.

bigpup · Posted: Sun 16 Jan 2011, 09:01 Post subject:

To boot a CD with Grub4dos add this entry to the menu.lst.

title Boot CD-ROM - (cd0)
cdrom --init
map --hook
chainloader (cd0)
rootnoverify (cd0)

Insert the CD after the boot menu comes up. Make sure to move off of the first menu choice so that does not get booted while you insert the CD.
Worked for me.

From info in the Grub4dos guide.
http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/files/boot.htm#cd