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[shinobar]

menu.lst:

[nooby]

Shinobar, you made my day. That worked flawlessly. I booted using the usb mem stick and walked all the way down to boot windows and it booted the usual screen me always get and I booted fluppy 007 from that one.

The boot being on that usb does that mean taht even if I ahve booted on the HDD it still need the usb to shut down? Or can one do as with a CD/DVD that one take out teh usb after boot?

So now knowing me can boot the using the usb if something happen to the HDD then I can
try your grub4dosconfig to change my hdd then.


Now it has the menu.lst deep down in jolicloud subdir on Home.

Where will your new menu.lst end up? on home under root? or in some subdir named grub4dosconfig?

And if it fails how do I restore so it boot as it do now from Hdd?

Which of the 4 choices should I tick. None?

Thanks indeed for all help with this.

[shinobar]

[nooby]

Thanks again,
we wrote at same time so I skipped the edit and ask here.

I want to take away the Jolicloud that created the dualboot.

Now that I ahve a booting usb stick I can use that one as you describe and it will be dual boot instead of tripple boot.

Seems fool proof as I get it. I just wonder how one tell jolicloud to remove itself safely. hmm

[shinobar]

[nooby]

good that you ask before I do anything drastic.

I go and test now I get back within 15 minutes at most but try to be quicker than that.

I am back online having booted jolicloud from hdd the usual grub legacy made by wubi I guess

but it failed to boot jolicloud on the mem stick it was not even listed there.

It seems that grub4dosconfig did not find my SuperOS frugal install and did not find Jolicloud at all.

So what does that tells you?

[shinobar]

[nooby]

oops

that is good but should I just go ahead and install grub4dosconfig then and remove jolicould manually maybe to be the safest way?

[shinobar]

[nooby]

I should be able to add SuperOs later if I want it. The bad thing with doing frugal on Ubuntu is that it can not save on NTFS yet.

Using grub2 it shoudl be able to do a real frugal install that saves on NTFS but I ahve seen no description.

Netrunner maybe is like that? that is a kind of ubuntu if I get it.

okay I give it a try and save a copy of the menu.lst somewere deep so I can add sueros later. no big deal.

Don't hold breath I am a slow tester.

[nooby]

I have tested Super OS now and that works and booting up all Puppies work very good except for Murky puppy which I seem to have mistreated in some way.

So great thanks.

The menu.lst and the back up of mbr ended up on sda1 instead of sda3 which I expected.

I think sda1 is the recovery but I am not sure. I don't get how one see if sda 1 or 2 are the recovery.

Never mind windows works now after your latest change of how to write the menu.lst

But typical for the person I am, I had forgot how to log in to windows. hope I noted that down somewhere.

I am writing this from SuperOS as a live CD mode.

[Karl Godt]

[shinobar]

Thanks Karl Godt.
Found the version 1.6.0 makes Improper entry for full install with Wary-098 and in some case with Puppy 5.x. Please try the new v1.6.1.

[Karl Godt]

installed the 1.6.1 on Macpup F 3 full install on /dev/sdc5 :

the blkid entries for the full installs at the menu.lst are correct now :

[shinobar]