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Gnuxo · Joined: 09 Feb 2012 Posts: 360

Hi, I've tried to manually do a frugal install of Puppy Arcade 10 by simply moving the initrd, vmlinuz and puppy420.sfs files into a folder and linking to them in grub4dos.

However grub4dos can't seem to detect the puppy420.sfs

What did I do wrong?

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

have you tried specifying the directory where the sfs is, using
psubsir=

see-
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/BootParametersPuppy

Gnuxo · Joined: 09 Feb 2012 Posts: 360

All of my puppy arcade files are in the same directory, which I called Arcade, then I renamed it pup, thinking that maybe the name had to be exact.
However no matter what, when booting via Grub4dos, I keep getting an error on bootup, saying that pup_420.sfs wasn't located.

I don't know what to do.

I am trying to dual boot a macpup 528 and puppy arcade via grub4dos.
Since puppy arcade is based on puppy 420, maybe it's incompatible with the current versions of grub4dos???

Keef · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 428 Location: Staffordshire

A Grub4Dos menu.lst entry should look something like this:

Gnuxo · Joined: 09 Feb 2012 Posts: 360

I just pasted your entry into menu.lst and it still can't find puppy_420.sfs

I'm getting really frustrated.

Keef · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 428 Location: Staffordshire

Just to be sure, I've downloaded the ISO to test it. Works ok for me.
In my example, the psubdir is 'arcade', but I noticed that yours was 'Arcade' - did you change either so they matched? (the folder name and the menu.lst entry).
Also, check that the sfs is actually called 'pup_420.sfs'.
Other than that, I've got nothing else, sorry. But I don't think you are the only one to have this problem.

Gnuxo · Joined: 09 Feb 2012 Posts: 360

I changed the folder name and yes I made sure about the sfs, I just copied the .sfs and related files into the folder.

I don't know what's causing this. I've never had this problem before.

Edit: No I'm not the only one to get this problem. I just found this.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=40477&start=615

zekebaby · Joined: 17 Nov 2010 Posts: 45

Gnuxo · Joined: 09 Feb 2012 Posts: 360

How do I dual boot puppy arcade with Macpup then?

How do I set up Grub4dos to boot puppy arcade outside a subdir?

zekebaby · Joined: 17 Nov 2010 Posts: 45

Keef · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 428 Location: Staffordshire

To boot from the root directory just remove the subdir reference from the menu entry:

Gnuxo · Joined: 09 Feb 2012 Posts: 360

Errr...what's the difference between Ide and Ata? I'm pretty sure I have an Ata.

Also do you think Puppy Arcade has issues with Grub4Dos? Do you think I should get the grub bootloader instead? Or does it not matter?

Another issue is that I don't really have a root folder unless you count the puppy distros themselves. All of my puppy folders are directly inside mnt/sda1

Gnuxo · Joined: 09 Feb 2012 Posts: 360

I've now installed the grub bootloader.

How do I get rid of grub4dos and use grub instead?

I've never tried using grub to boot puppy, so I'm a little nervous.

It's obviously not grub2 because I can't access grub from grub4dos.

Gnuxo · Joined: 09 Feb 2012 Posts: 360

I just discovered an interesting error.

Ok...I don't have a large OS installed. I just made an ext4 partition and moved Macpup onto it and linked to it with Grub.

Now when I boot up the Puppy Arcade cd, it won't mount my sda1.
It also detects my hdd partition as ext3, not ext4. And when I try the installer it says I have no free space on my partition even though I have 70 gigs free.
My Macpup save file is 3fs. which means puppy arcade is trying to mount my Macpup save file instead of the sda drive itself.

Also a few of the emulators won't even open when I click on them.

These are all issues I am having and maybe its's why Puppy Arcade is having issues booting frugally.

Maybe it's not playing well with my Macpup. Or maybe it's just defective.

Any ideas folks?

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK