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[shinobar]

[bigpup]

Did you give the CD drive a little time to spin up after you inserted the CD?

The Grub4dos guide has other options to try.
http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/files/boot.htm#cd

[shinobar]

My cd has serial ata interface, that is the reason grub4dos cannot recognize it as cd0 i guess.
Of course it may also depend on the BIOS.

[yordanj94]

Hi Shinobar.
Today i installed the last unstable version and tried to install on floppy disc .
I couldn't and got this massage :

/usr/sbin/grub4dosconfig
version 1.6d9
Tue Jan 18 14:28:28 UTC 2011
BINSTALLER=bootlace.com
sda(MBR)_41.1GB_ATA_ExcelStor_Techno
fd0_(FLOPPY_DISK)
sdb_1.9GB_Corsair_Flash_Voyager_
sda1/lucid/lupq-511.sfs|lupq_511
sda1/wary/wary_500.sfs|wary_500
sda4/boot/vmlinuz|Wary_Puppy_500

sdb1|Unknown

mkfs.msdos 3.0.7 (24 Dec 2009)
Wrigting... /mnt/fd0/menu.lst
Failed to make 'menu.lst'.
Installing bootloader on floppy...


Error: Invalid option.



BOOTLACE writes GRLDR BOOT RECORD to MBR or to the boot area of a file system.

Usage: bootlace.com [OPTIONS] DEVICE_OR_FILE

Options: --read-only, --floppy[=N], --boot-prevmbr-first, --boot-prevmbr-last,

--no-backup-mbr, --force-backup-mbr, --mbr-enable-floppy, --mbr-disable-floppy,

--mbr-enable-osbr, --mbr-disable-osbr, --duce, --time-out=T, --hot-key=K,

--preferred-drive=D, --preferred-partition=P, --sectors-per-track=S, --heads=H,

--start-sector=B, --total-sectors=C, --install-partition=I, --lba, --chs,

--fat12, --fat16, --fat32, --vfat, --ntfs, --ext2, --serial-number=SN,

--restore-mbr, --mbr-no-bpb, --chs-no-tune

DEVICE_OR_FILE: Filename of the device or image. For DOS, a BIOS drive number

(in hex 0xHH or decimal DDD format)can be used to access the drive.

Failed to install bootlace.com.

[shinobar]

Thanks, yordanj94. Confirmed.
There is a typo in /usr/sbin/grub4dosconfig at line 1495(number of hyphen'-' should both be 2).
Wrong:

[yordanj94]

Hi Shinobar.
No,no you don't have to be sorry.
You are the one who does the hard work.
Like now.
Everything is fine and works well.
Thanks again.

/usr/sbin/grub4dosconfig
version 1.6d9
ср яну 19 13:19:05 EET 2011
BINSTALLER=bootlace.com
sda(MBR)_41.2GB_ATA_ExcelStor_Techno
fd0_(FLOPPY_DISK)
sda1/wary/wary_500.sfs|wary_500




mkfs.msdos 3.0.6 (04 Oct 2009)
Wrigting... /mnt/fd0/menu.lst
Failed to make 'menu.lst'.
Installing bootloader on floppy...




Filesystem type is FAT12.







Success.



Installing grldr ...
`/usr/lib/grub4dos/grldr' -> `/mnt/fd0/grldr'


I don't know why is written ,but i do have "menu" list and works ?

[shinobar]

[nooby]

quote JustGreg

Nooby,

Please look at this "How to" at
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=39499

It should help. I found it by searching on Grub4Dos. It addresses Vista.

Thank you, Shinobar for posting the pet and information. I will have to take another look at grub4Dos. I have been using Grub since it comes with Puppy.
unquote

thanks Greg I go there and look. I want to install Minino Linux on an USB later today and will use config to set it up.

Some thing with software made this not readable so I quote it to see if it gets readable

[shinobar]

V1.6.9.1 bugfix release:
was failed installing on floppy(thanks to yordanj94), pmedia option

Note that v1.6.9x are beta testing.
The last stable is grub4dos-0.4.4.v1.6.3.

[nooby]

Shinobar. I tried to get Minino Linux to boot in frugal install on my HDD but failed.

then I thought of Grub4DosConfig and I moved all the iso files to a new 4GB USB mem stick Kingston drive. First I forgot to set the flag to boot.

But it failed to boot using an USB too. maybe it can only boot from CD?

I tried to format another drive bit gparted in Snow Puppy failed to forat it. Unknown format it says.

Any suggestion on how to get it to boot?

No I don't want to go into Ms Win7 to do unetboot in to do it.

[shinobar]

[nooby]

Thanks Shinobar, wow larger than 4. That is the largerst I ahve apart from external usb HDD them being 10GB to 38 and 100GB something old abandoned spinning HDDs But I want a silent computer and they whine a lot.

I give up on it that is better. I wish all Linux Distros to be made for Frugal Install. So practical when they have no CD built in.

[shinobar]

[nooby]

Okay but I am too impatient to learn all that stuff now just for to be able to see how it behaves. If it not work easily to do a frugal install on HDD then it is not worth it for me unless everybody have tested it and says it is better than both Puppy Linux and Knoppix latest version and then I sure will try that descritption.

Thanks for taking time to explain it to me.

What Linux Distro works best with grub4dosconfig doing frugal install on NTFS HDD apart from Puppy Linux?

[shinobar]