Boot any Puppy from USB pen/Micro SD card!

[Krishnamurti Naskar]

I booted the usb stick in QEMU emulator for the screenshot...

animes..I know not but they run side to side and one down the pipe as a timout indicator.

Mike

can you please provide the menu.lst or isolinux.cfg file for that case.

or better a screenshot of your pendrive opened in file browser.
i just want to see the root structure of your multi-boot envi.

[mikeb]

No problem....by the way another stick has XP and 2000 on it using grub4dos for boot too

menu.lst

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default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu /boot/splash_test

title NimbleX 
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-nim ramdisk_size=7120 root=/dev/ram0 rw vga=788 quiet sgnfile=cruzer.sgn pty.legacy_count=10 autoexec=xorgwizard;startxfce4
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-nim.gz

title Puppy 202
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz_212 root=/dev/ram0
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd_202.gz

title Puppy 212
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz_212 root=/dev/ram0
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd_212.gz

title Puppy 415
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-nim quiet root=/dev/ram0
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd_415-splash.gz

title Puppy 525
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz_525 root=/dev/ram0
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd_525.gz

title Memtest
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/memdisk
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/memtest.img

title Slax 7
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-s7 vga=773 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw printk.time=0 slax.flags=xmode
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrfs.img

piccie attached...included the /boot folder and shrunk to be forum happy

mike

[Krishnamurti Naskar]

I booted the usb stick in QEMU emulator for the screenshot...

animes..I know not but they run side to side and one down the pipe as a timout indicator.

Mike

Thanx.
I appreciate your effort in helpin' us.
thanks,once again.

[tedf]

So, I downloaded Fatdog64-600-seamonkey.iso file from ibiblio. The checksum was correct after the download. I installed the iso into a 4GB flash drive using the dd command on an Ubuntu machine. I rebooted the machine and successfully got to the splash page for fatdog64, waited for the requisite 5 seconds for the boot to start and then...

Kernel Panic.. not syncing up... and so on

Is there any guidance on what may be the problem?

My machine is a Lenovo netbook, nothing special, I booted Mageia successfully from a liveUSB yesterday so I am hoping that I am just missing some configuration thingy that I need to do or a boot parameter that I should be setting?

Thanks

[mikeb]

So, I downloaded Fatdog64-600-seamonkey.iso file from ibiblio. The checksum was correct after the download. I installed the iso into a 4GB flash drive using the dd command on an Ubuntu machine.

is that a hybrid iso as standard puppy iso will not work by dd'ing.

In which case mounting and copying files would be needed and a boot loader installing.

mike

[Pelo]

Linuxliveusb creator : i confirm here above post, nice tool, nice Web site.
But only available via Windows !

[g2k]

i'm quite new to bootlace.i must get used 2 this.
but, syslinux is easier,i think.

bootlace.com is in the path of newer puppies.... it has a simplicity about it and it can run in linux or DOS which is handy.

But see my penquin problem on my usb stick....

mike

Hi, I saw this post and was wondering if I can have this as a boot screen, using grub, or if I have to use grub4dos?

Also, if I can do this with grub, will you guys help me get this set up?

Thank you, for your assistance in this matter.

[mikeb]

Hi, I saw this post and was wondering if I can have this as a boot screen, using grub, or if I have to use grub4dos?

either works...

you add

gfxmenu /penquins

near the top of menu.lst
and pop the penquin file in the same place...example is root of partition but you can use a path to a folder eg /boot/penquins
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/110545536/Misc/penguins

thats it

mike

[g2k]

Hmm, for some reason its not working. Heres my menu.lst (legacy grub puppy 5.2.8 frugal install).

****************************************************

# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.
# generated by 'grubconfig'. Tue Oct 29 08:11:08 2013
#
# The backup copy of the MBR for drive '/dev/sda' is
# here '/boot/grub/mbr.sda.20042'. You can restore it like this.
# dd if=/boot/grub/mbr.sda.20042 of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
#
# Start GRUB global section
#timeout 30
gfxmenu /boot/grub/penguins
# End GRUB global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Puppy Linux -User account Options on next screen
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 psubdir=Users noatime ro vga=normal pfix=e2fsck, pfix=fsck
initrd /initrd.gz
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Puppy Repair
root (hd0,1)
kernel /PupRepair/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 psubdir=PupRepair noatime ro vga=normal pfix=fsck
initrd /PupRepair/initrd.gz
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Puppy Linux 5.7.1 frugal in sda3 dir precise5.7.1frugal
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
kernel /precise5.7.1frugal/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd psubdir=precise5.7.1frugal
initrd /precise5.7.1frugal/initrd.gz
# Linux bootable partition config ends
title Install GRUB to floppy disk (on /dev/fd0)
pause Insert a formatted floppy disk and press enter.
root (hd0,0)
setup (fd0)
pause Press enter to continue.
title Install GRUB to Linux partition (on /dev/sda1)
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0,0)
pause Press enter to continue.
title - For help press 'c', then type: 'help'
root (hd0)
title - For usage examples, type: 'cat /boot/grub/usage.txt'
root (hd0)
**********************************************

penguins file is in /boot/grub/ along with menu.lst

[g2k]

Ok, guys thank you for helping me get this setup.

I fixed the problem with it not displaying. It's working beautifully now.

I had to use an updated method since I run ext4 partitions.

What worked for me, in case anyone else needs it, is this thread/turorial:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 162#184162

[mikeb]

Ah ok the newer grub.. I forgot such things as I never use ext4.

So happy dancing penquins...they are cute

mike

[g2k]

Yes mikeb, they are. Thank you for the help.