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[benali72]

In case this hasn't been discussed elsewhere --

If you install a new release of Puppy, and use an install of GRUB from an earlier version of Linux installed on that same computer, you might get the error:

GRUB ERROR: 2

when you boot the new release of Puppy.

One common reason for this error is that your new Puppy install has inodes of size 256, whereas the older version of Grub you have installed on that computer expects inodes of size 128.

You can see the size of the inodes for your new Puppy install by running this command, where X is the partition of the new Puppy install:

tune2fs -l /dev/sdaX

If the reported inode size is 256, the solution is to install Grub from your new release of Puppy (overwrite the older Grub install). The new Puppy Grub will handle inodes of either 128 or 256, so all Linuxes on the computer will now boot ok through Grub.

---EXAMPLE---

I have a computer on which I have installed Puppy 412 and Ubuntu 9.10. Grub was installed during the Puppy 412 install.

I installed Puppy 5.01 on that computer, and manually updated the MENU.LST file in the Puppy 412 partition. I got a GRUB ERROR: 2 when trying to boot Puppy 5.01.

The TUNE2FS command on my new Puppy 5.01 partition showed that it had inode size of 256. So I just re-installed Grub from Puppy 5.01 and now all Linuxes on the computer boot fine.

[rjbrewer]

Yes; beginning with Puppy 4.3x, gparted made partitions with 256
inodes.

[avphani]

STEPS
1. BOOT WITH LIVE PUUPY CD
2. UMOUNT ALL DRIVES EXCEPT THE HOME DRIVE
3. PUPPY UIVERSAL INSTALLER FROM MAIN MENU/START MENU
4.CHOOSE IDE/SATA HARD DRIVE
5. MAKE TO COPY PUPPY FILES ALL INTO A FOLDER IN C:\
i.e, hdb1 in /mnt/hdb1
6.NOW YOU CAN CHECK THAT FROM WINDOWS PLATFORM AS C:\PUPPY400
WITH SFS AND KERNEL AND INITRD FILES
7. GET A FILE CALLED GRUB.MBR FROM LINUX FOR WINDOWS PLATFORMS
IT ADDS ENTRY IN BOOT.INI
AS
C:\g2ldr.mbr="Pubby Linux", SAVE THE BOOT.INI file and restart
- IN LAST LINE
- THE FILES USED ARE : g2ldr, g2ldr.mbr
9. Now computer restarts ,
choose the "Puppy Linux"
now at grub> command line type as
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> kernel /puppy400/vmlinuz
grub>initrd /puppy400/initrd.gz
grub>boot
or

grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> linux (hd0,1)/puppy400/vmlinuz
grub>initrd (hd0,1)/puppy400/initrd.gz
grub>boot
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any further ideas i need