Slacko Puppy 5.3.1

[shinobar]

One tiny thing though , shinobar : cp /boot/vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz-1 , -2 , -3 and run grub4dosconfig ...

The problem occurs if the /boot/vmlinuz does not exist.
I will investigate the issue.

Tnx Karl. I like debugging even it is tiny.

EDIT(2012-01-15)
v1.7.2: fix was mmc card(ex. mmcblk0p1) failed(thanks to jemimah), which vmlinuz and initrd should be taken(thanks to Karl)
Topic on the grub4dosconfig:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51697

[Sage]

But i think purging the legacy grub is better solution because it makes confuse for the users.
Nowadays Grub4Dos covers most of all the function what the legacy grub does.


Hmm... I might just do that

Go ahead! Live dangerously! You'll win no friends, be sure of that. Legacy 0.9 is a pillar that the silent majority will not relinquish. Take a look at the postbag of other distros...

[Jasper]

Sage,

As 01micko said; but, cluelessly and either carelessly or selectively, you did not:

"As you say shino, power user can easily get legacy grub from PPM or even LILO if they desire. (in slackware repo)."

My regards

[Sage]

Who is this smart*ass always trying to score points. As usual, you are utterly wrong; you don't understand regular users. Go away.
So-called 'power users' will always know where and how to get all the files they need and how to use them. Puppy's greatest appeal is to neophytes and incomers who need the very simplest methods to get up-&-running.

[bigpup]

As a normal user, I have not used Grub since I discovered Grub4dos.
The last time I used Grub was back in the Puppy version 3 days.
+1 for Grub4dos

[James C]

Didn't know this was up for a vote but +1 for legacy Grub.

[nubc]

keep Legacy Grub

[Lobster]

No bugs to report

5.3.1 just works
m m m . . . I may have to do something more demanding . . .

Some of the non-bugs. Fast boot and audio, including recording - working.

Just reporting day to day solidity

[don570]

new version of mtpaint works well
with Wacom Bamboo tablet and Slacko

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 13&t=71332

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[mave]

[obsolet...]

[jim3630]

+1 for Grub4dos.

it was the first I learned to use when new to linux
and so simple to use never needed to learn
another.
legacy grub maybe just as easy for all I know.

[Aitch]

Oh no....grub wars!

Well, I'll see your grub and grub4dos, and raise a Win Installer
That's REALLY for neophytes and noobies who have heard that grub breaks your hard drive

ha!

personally, I'll try anything as long as the dang thing boots
I was rather sad to see the grub splashscreen by catdude, die away

remember this?



I liked the graphical menu, choice of boots, plus visible boot path/options

Perhaps it could revive legacy grub....grub4dos just reminds me of M$...

But, oh, to be free of the fear of wrecking harddrives for noobies

Aitch

[James C]

I've pretty much had nothing but trouble with Grub4dos when trying to boot anything other than Puppy and Windows...generally the default legacy Grub menu.lst will work ootb. Novel idea...just keep both.

[gcmartin]

In 2011, we saw a marked expansion in Puppy being able to co-exist, equally, on a LAN with devices, games, Windows and Macs as well as expansion of subsystems, features and services across the board.

Shinobar, in a distro he created couple years ago, produced a working model in his "QuickPET" distro (Sept 2010). It was far-reaching then, and several distro and PET contributors followed with similars. I have found his work in that area compelling where for a Live media use, I "could" modify the boot config for many additions. In fact, PuppyLuvr created a "MultiPUP" PET (also used by JameBond in "Netboot" where a Boot menu is presented to the booting PC for option selection(s).

I can see where this type of GRUB4DOS on a booting CD/DVD can be extremely useful to distro producers.

There is ONE MAJOR drawback to me. Because of its flexibility, many users could present a daunting list of support requests. This is the ONLY drawback I could find.

But, for it to get any mass appeal in Puppy, it will require distro developers to take on something that many do not understand, today. This is, using a boot processor other than what they have traditionally used. Old habits are hard to break!

Hope this helps
P.S. I AM AWARE, that this is, probably, NOT the best place for this discussion. And, my post should be moved if a moderator chooses.

[shinobar]

I've pretty much had nothing but trouble with Grub4dos when trying to boot anything other than Puppy and Windows...

What distro you failed to boot?
Do you have trouble with the recent versions of the grub4dosconfig?
If so, visit the topic on the grub4dosconfig and help me to polish it up:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51697

[minesadorada]

It would be nice if Grub4DOS produced a less geeky menu.lst by default.

I speak as a Linux newbie, who groans at the autogenerated menu entries littered with uneccessary details.

All I want on my boot menu is:
1 ) Puppy Linux (Slacko/Wary/Lupu/Racy)
2 ) Windows

I don't want all the other information and menu entries.

[bigpup]

For people who like a lot of programs that do the same thing.
An easy way to change the default program.
Defaults Chooser 0.8
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=56282

[gcmartin]

For people who like a lot of programs that do the same thing. An easy way to change the default program.
Defaults Chooser 0.8
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=56282

Good reference.

I wonder... Should the

1. "chooser" be built-in to Puppy
2. along with the tool(s) for adding something to the local desktop
3. as well as the local running desktop's Menu

Hummm... Maybe this could be a sub-menu of tools on the Menu>Desktop>sometopicname

Just a thought on whether this would provide some obvious ease of use functionality.

[gcmartin]

This issue has probably been covered so many times before now.

But, some advice to me would be helpful on this issues.

How should the system behave when copying text data from one tool to another?
What should I do when bringing up a LIve media boot to insure that text transfers go smooth to Geany?

Thanks for any guidance on this problem below

[Aitch]

I'm running slacko and apart from the usual formatting errors, I don't get the failure you demoed, perhaps there was something in the content of the original abiword document that used utf8
Would browser encoding make a difference? Wouldn't have thought so, but I've noticed strange effects if it's set wrong in character encoding
"How should the system behave?"
Well, I'd have thought...?
How do you save text as .png in geany?

Aitch