I use only one flash USB drive in my Puppy machine.
There is no CD, no HD. Puppy loads from that flash
drive and saves all configuration to it.
When by mistake I switched off my machine without
graceful shutdown I couldn't load Puppy anymore.
There was CRC error and system halted.
Is it possible to avoid such situations having just
one flash?
Gena.
Switched off without shutting down, now USB Pup won't start
Gena; it sounds like the USB drive was corrupted, same thing that can happen when the power goes out.
The only way to stop it from happening is to not do it (shut down properly).
It's possable to recover corupt partitions but it's kind of a pain to learn & do, so unless it's critical, just redo it.
Fortunately Puppy is just a few files, so format the USB, copy Puppy back to it, & make bootable (however your doing it).
If your a Win/DOS sort of person, useing DOS's command.com, linld, & an autoexec.bat file is an easy way.
I personally prefer syslinux for booting from almost any kind of storage media, others like the Grub boot loader.
The only way to stop it from happening is to not do it (shut down properly).
It's possable to recover corupt partitions but it's kind of a pain to learn & do, so unless it's critical, just redo it.
Fortunately Puppy is just a few files, so format the USB, copy Puppy back to it, & make bootable (however your doing it).
If your a Win/DOS sort of person, useing DOS's command.com, linld, & an autoexec.bat file is an easy way.
I personally prefer syslinux for booting from almost any kind of storage media, others like the Grub boot loader.
NO, at the very least it will probably force a disk check every time you startup after a cold abrupt shutdown.
ANY abnormal shutdown can corrupt ANY partition that's mounted, that's why power failures are BAD.
If you have an older AT style PC (not ATX) & can't keep your finger off the power button... stop that!
Do a shutdown from the [Start] menu & wait until it's stopped it's shutdown in the black console screen.
If your PC is a newer ATX style, then it should turn itself off when you click: [Start] > shutdown > Power-off.
ANY abnormal shutdown can corrupt ANY partition that's mounted, that's why power failures are BAD.
If you have an older AT style PC (not ATX) & can't keep your finger off the power button... stop that!
Do a shutdown from the [Start] menu & wait until it's stopped it's shutdown in the black console screen.
If your PC is a newer ATX style, then it should turn itself off when you click: [Start] > shutdown > Power-off.