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[JustGreg]

I have manage to use the Fatdog 64 EFI to boot Slacko 5.5 with a UEFI BIOS with a USB flash drive. Here is how I did it.

First, one needs to create the USB flash drive with Fatdog 64. This post has the information on how to do it:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=83402

Please read all the entries on the post. There is a lot of information and tips. This will create a normal Fatdog 64 installation. One should the latest Fatdog64 620 beta iso for the files. It is the most up to date version.

After creating the flash drive, one first needs to test it with Fatdog 64 to ensure it works. One has to stop the normal UEFI boot process (usually the ESC key) to get the firmware boot device selection entry. Select the USB flash device and it should boot. The first thing will be to register the fatdog certificate (fatdog.cer) using the MOKmanager. After one does that, the rEFInd boot loader should start. Select Fatdog64 and it will start. One needs to be patient. My Compaq CQ58 shows a blank screen for awhile. The UEFI boot seems to be in a graphical mode and much of the previous boot text is not shown. Fatdog will start and come up. Once it does, you can shutdown the system. You have a working device.

I used a 512 Megabyte USB flash drive. There is not enough room for both Fatdog64 and Slacko 5.5 I removed the Fatdog64 files. On a larger device, it may be possible to have multiple Puppy Linux systems on the same device. However, one needs to ensure the system component file names are unique. I have not done this, so you are on your own if you turn it.

After removing the Fatdog64 files, I copied these files for Slacko 5.5 to the device:
vmlinuz
initrd.gz
puppy_slacko_5.5.sfs

One needs to add an entry for Slacko 5.5 to the grub.cfg file. Here is the text of the one that I used:

[Ted Dog]

Thanks for sharing this howto.