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[steve_s]

wasn't sure where to post this...didn't look right on the NOP Racy thread..

Racy NOP 5.2.2 is not seeing my save file. I'm using a USB boot, it boots great, but doesn't give any initial options upon boot (pfix=ram or any of that). it acts like it is looking for the save file but it is not seeing any save files (tried plugging in different flash drives with other ones on it).

The usb is configured to have two partitions as a multiple option usb (can't remember the exact phrasing; the one that is supposed to look like an external harddrive, floppy and zip drive all at once). The entire usb is 1gig, the first partition like 150mb, then the save file is on the other partition.

Any advise?

[steve_s]

On a hard drive frugal I'd use psubdir in grub to direct to the save file...can that be done even on a usb install (no grub)? Don't know how to 'direct' to this savefile on the second usb partition...

[Geoffrey]

[01micko]

Try appending the psubdir arg to the kernel line in extlinux.conf or syslinux.cfg (depending whether your stick is ext or vFAT). It should work.

Also, I think shinobar did a good post somewhere on installing grub4dos to usb, I did try it at one point and it worked well.

HTH

[steve_s]

[steve_s]

One man's cheat is another man's solution, or something...

Ok, gonna try the mod's mentioned above, but yesterday I got it to work by cheating.

Problem: the usb mode was causing it to use only save files in the same partition that the boot files were on. The configuration of the flash drive was like 141mb on one partition and 800mb on the other partition, so i had my save file on the 800 partition, but the boot files weren't seeing it. I had created this flash drive configuration using the USB/flash configuration tool found in Puppy (called bootable usb or something) and selected the multi boot option (the one that lets your drive look like an external hard drive, cd, etc.).

I just needed the first partition to be bigger so that I could put the save file there.

So i changed the script from here and changed all the things that said 140mb to 800mb and changed the line that reads

[steve_s]

It should be noted that to do the hack that I did I had multiple drives going and I booted from a different flash so that I could modify the one that I wanted to modify. I had mentioned that before although I would think that would be pretty clear...just didn't want someone trying to boot from the usb they were going to modify as that might turn out to be disastrous.

[steve_s]

Here is the modified program that I did, assuming I can attach a zip file...

In my opinion, when you unpack this, don't install it, just set it aside somewhere. Then, when you want to run it, just cd to that directory in your terminal and run it via ./bigusbboot.

[steve_s]

The problem I'm running into with modifiying syslinux.cfg is that I can tell it where to look for all the files but not JUST the save file besides in the first directory (psubdir doesn't go past one directory level). Forum member rhadon outlines it pretty well here.

Here is what syslinux.cfg says right now:

[steve_s]

Ok, our Aussie friend was right on the money: Geoffrey, your suggestion appears to be the easiest solve to this right now.

So: open syslinux.cfg and modify the line and change:

[steve_s]

Observation: the pmedia to cd method doesn't work on my old laptop. Granted, the laptop is having Grub (on the internal hard drive) point to the flash drive and boot it that way, so that may be a factor.

[steve_s]