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#31 Post by starhawk »

Do you see the "post reply" button...?

Look just to the left of it, you should see another button... it will be very helpful...

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#32 Post by bigpup »

MrAccident wrote:I'm posting here because I can't find a way to make a new topic in the forum. Please tell me how to do that.
Go to the section of the forum you want to post in.
Click on new topic.
Your post will be a new topic in that section of the forum.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
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#33 Post by MrAccident »

OK; today I see it. Pretty sure it wasn't there yesterday. Thanks.

gcmartin

Puppy Linux Boot Parameters & General Linux Boot Parms

#34 Post by gcmartin »

First
In reviewing this page which supports Puppy Linux boot parameters, I can find no mentions of the syntax requirements or defaults for the Puppy Boot Parameters themselves (those are the options BEFORE the equal sign).

Questions
  • Are boot options case sensitive? OR is case NOT a factor and spelling is the only factor?
    What are the default values?
Next
In reviewing this page which supports Puppy Linux boot parameters, I can find no mentions of the case requirements for the General Boot Parameters shown. The parms begin their topic area in UPPER case while the supporting paragraphs show lower case. Defaults, on this page, are usually shown.

Questions
  • Are these boot options case sensitive? OR is case NOT a factor?
Last
There is a 2nd, separate, page showing additional Puppy Linux Parameters. In reviewing this page which supports additional Puppy Linux boot parameters, I can find no mentions of its relationship to the Puppy Boot Parameters themselves (those are the options BEFORE the equal sign).

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  • Are these boot options related and to be used in conjunction with the first mentioned set, above? Why are they separate?
Thanks in advance for any clarity on options used in booting Puppy Linux.

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#35 Post by boof »

Please move post if in wrong place:

Slacko-6.5.0:
Want to boot from USB-which works,
and save to sda2-which is either forbidden or beyond my ability. Is there a boot parameter I could set? Like:

kernel /vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash pfix=fsck, PupSfs=/sda2/slackosave_crypta.2fs

I've tried editing the SAVEFILE contents to be /../sda2
but no good there either. I can't get it to save. I'll try (0,1) and see if that helps later. I know it's nooking for a partition number on the same drive, I'm hoping it can be tricked into another drive. I won't do it now, I've got too much stuff running and it's a PITA to start again from scratch if it doesn't work, although I suppos I could just save a slackosave.2fs in sdb3, to keep what I have, and reconfigure SAVEFILE for testing? The old brain is a bit slow these days.

With Tahr-6.0.5 I could boot from a cd and save on sda2.


BTW. I've discovered the when using a USB 2.0 memory stick in a 3.0 port, I need to lock the port to 2.0 or a puppy USB stick won't find the sfs file. It defaults back to 3.0 and can't read the device. It probably just need more time, but a BIOS change is not difficult.

Pelo

Sda2 for your Slacko

#36 Post by Pelo »

There is no reason why a Slacko could not use sda2 if tahrpup use it, in my knowledge.

hamoudoudou

LICK makes our Puppies run on Windows partitions..

#37 Post by hamoudoudou »

of course. LICK makes our Puppies run on Windows partitions..

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Re: LICK makes our Puppies run on Windows partitions..

#38 Post by RetroTechGuy »

hamoudoudou wrote:of course. LICK makes our Puppies run on Windows partitions..
There hasn't really been a problem until Windows10 (which, for your convenience, removes any files not placed there by Windows10).

Cutting into the boot sequence is a little harder for Win7 and on (I run Lin'N'Win on my XP and Win98 machines). I bypassed mucking with the Win7 boot sequence by simply booting from an external SD card (then pointing to the files stored on the Windows hard drive). Win10 broke it so I moved them onto an external USB drive...
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hamoudoudou

About Windows 10 :

#39 Post by hamoudoudou »

About Windows 10 :
1 Windows 10 updating a computer bought with Window seven or eight

2 Computer bought with windows 10 and build for windows 10, build in respect of windows 10 specifications.. Linux is still searching for drivers..

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#40 Post by s243a »

It also helps to look at the code. Here is the part of the source which contains all the paramaters; lines 836-883 of /initrd/init tahrpup:

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#pmedia= usbflash|usbhd|usbcd|ataflash|atahd|atacd|atazip|scsihd|scsicd|cd
[ $pmedia ] && PMEDIA=$pmedia #boot parameter, broad category of boot media. ex: cd.
[ $psubdir ] && PSUBDIR=$psubdir #boot parameter, directory for puppy files. ex: puppy220
[ $psavemark ] && PSAVEMARK=$psavemark #100913 partition number that has/will-have save-file.

[ $PSUBDIR ] && [ "${PSUBDIR:0:1}" != "/" ] && PSUBDIR="/${PSUBDIR}" #add leading /.

[ $pdev1 ] && PDRV=$pdev1 #boot parameter, partition have booted off. ex: hda3
#100915 requested by technosaurus (formats get changed further down)...
[ $pdrv ] && PDRV=$pdrv #format partition:<path><filename> ex: sda2:/slacko/puppy_slacko_6.3.0.sfs
[ $pupsfs ] && PDRV=$pupsfs
[ $zdrv ] && ZDRV=$zdrv #ex: sda2:/slacko/zdrv_slacko_6.3.0.sfs
[ $fdrv ] && FDRV=$fdrv
[ $adrv ] && ADRV=$adrv
[ $ydrv ] && YDRV=$ydrv
#<partition>:<filename>, for savefile/savefolder. <partition> can be a name or Label or UUID
[ $psave ] && PSAVE=$psave #ex: sdb4:/puppy/tahr/tahrsave or smark or 49baa82d-8c69:tahrsave
#list of kernel modules to load, ex: pimod=hid-logitech-dj.ko,kernel/drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.ko 
[ $pimod ] && PIMOD=$pimod
#specify partition for Underdog Linux (refer also underdog.lnx).
[ $underdog ] && UNDERDOG=$underdog
#[ $pdebug ] && PDEBUG=$pdebug
PDEBUG=1
TOTAL_SIZEK_SFS_RAM=0

# show menu with pupsaves
[ $psavemenu ] && PSAVEMENU=$psavemenu

RDSH=""
if [ "$pfix" ];then
 for ONEFIX in $(echo -n "$pfix" | tr ',' ' ')
 do
  case $ONEFIX in
   ram)     PRAMONLY="yes";;      #run in ram only (do not load ${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}save).
   rdsh)    RDSH="yes";;          #exit to shell in initial ramdisk.
   nox)     PNOX="yes";;          #do not start X.
   clean)   PCLEAN="yes";;        #force version upgrade and cleanup.
   trim)    PTRIM="yes";;         #add "discard" to mount options if SSD
   copy)    PCOPY="yes";;         #copy .sfs files into ram.
   nocopy)  PNOCOPY="yes";;        #do not copy .sfs files into ram (default is copy if enough ram).
   fsck)    PFSCK="yes";;         #do a fsck of ${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}save file.
   fsckp)   PFSCKP="yes";;        #do fsck before first mount of ext partitions
   [0-9]*)  PIGNORELAST=$ONEFIX;; #blacklist last $ONEFIX folders (multisession).
   psavebkp)PSAVEBKP='yes';;      #don't ignore pupsaves created by Pupsave Backup
   *)       echo "pfix=$ONEFIX is not a known boot parameter";;
  esac
 done
fi
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hamoudoudou

so many forgotten parameters are forgotten

#41 Post by hamoudoudou »

Lot of information in this topic : so many forgotten parameters are forgotten because they have not been used for years, perhaps useless for Puppy
New comers as Dogs live in Puppy Forum but ignore how Puppy Boots..
Fredx181 pls read this topic..
Last edited by hamoudoudou on Fri 22 Jun 2018, 12:46, edited 1 time in total.

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Re: so many forgotten parameters are forgotten

#42 Post by s243a »

hamoudoudou wrote:Lot of information in this topic : so many forgotten parameters are forgotten because they have not been used for years, perhaps useless for Puppy
Just because you don't use them doesn't mean everyone doesn't use them. Your post really adds nothing to this topic.

hamoudoudou

easily replace awful cheat-codes

#43 Post by hamoudoudou »

Dogs entered the Puppy forum without wish to now how puppy works. Just a free place to create Live CDS. But then they began to use Puppy process.. to discover Puppy
Boot options in Puppy can easily replace awful cheat-codes, and do better, far better. They began to study how-to long time ago, successfully.

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#44 Post by fredx181 »

hamoudoudou wrote:Lot of information in this topic : so many forgotten parameters are forgotten because they have not been used for years, perhaps useless for Puppy
New comers as Dogs live in Puppy Forum but ignote how Puppy Boots..
Fredx pls read this topic..
Deleted earlier reply because I don't want to go off-topic further.

hamoudoudou

Grub4Dos is the most popular

#45 Post by hamoudoudou »

s243a my purpose was not to add something, just to get the topic at the top, Information about boot options for Puppy should be sticky. For Puppy Linux users. Newbies from Windows, They are not newbies from Linux.
Only Experts.

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#46 Post by darry19662018 »

Right have added to this Wiki page - happy Pelo.

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/BootParametersPuppy

hamoudoudou

If Puppy boot options are not of any interest for them,

#47 Post by hamoudoudou »

Dogs can use Puppy forum, but clearly they should not try to prevent anybody to make an essential topic as this one sent at the top of PUPPY LINUX Forum. If Puppy boot options are not of any interest for them, they ignore it..
The same for topics where somebody ask if Puppy has issued a version based on Devuan.

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Re: If Puppy boot options are not of any interest for them,

#48 Post by s243a »

hamoudoudou wrote:Dogs can use Puppy forum, but clearly they should not try to prevent anybody to make an essential topic as this one sent at the top of PUPPY LINUX Forum. If Puppy boot options are not of any interest for them, they ignore it..
The same for topics where somebody ask if Puppy has issued a version based on Devuan.
Where is the report button? You keep repeating the same nonsense.

hamoudoudou

What you call non-sense is the native Puppy Process

#49 Post by hamoudoudou »

What you call non-sense is the native Puppy Process that you want to change.. All linux i know until now are unable to use it.. So you are.

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