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When I frugal installed BookwormPup64.10.0.4 using Diskpup it gets errors when I try to boot it. How do I post that info to get help?

For starters, you could tell us what happens when you try to boot. What do the error messages say?
Also, how much RAM does the computer have?

sometimes the easyest way is to post the errors is with a photo of your screen.
If the boot progresses to a point where bookworm has failed to find a file, then there could be a log file with more helpful info.

What is the computer make and model?

Specs if you know them?

What device (drive) did you install it on?

Provide info like this:

You do what?

You see what?

Only way to help is giving us specific details!

There is always a chance the download of the BookwormPup64 ISO was not good.
It happens.
So a fresh clean download and fresh clean install may be needed.

I just posted a massive reply after having first signed in (reply & t=10732) but when i submitted it the forum said I can't reply unless I am signed in. i WAS!!!

Always a good tip is to copy and paste your post somewhere before attempting to submit it. Especially true if you have spent a long time composing it, which of course makes it all the more annoying if your work gets lost. If you have made a copy you can log in again and paste and then send it after a few seconds so your session does not expire. Sometimes you can navigate back and still find it, but that doesn't always work.

@paperboy1994 it's happened to me before. I figured out going back in history one page, it was possible to return to the state just before I had clicked submit, then copied the text I wrote and then refreshed the page, then pasted the text back in and submitted.

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E520 11143AFU Laptop with 8GB Ram, 500 GB HDD and 2.40 GHZ processor
speed with Windows 7 Professional and BookwormPup64.10.0.4 frugal installed. WIFI is Intel Centrino
Wireless-N 1000 IEEE 802.11 b/g/n. Since I live in a mountainous rural area, my internet is via a
DSL modem. Previously when I was having problems reconnecting my WIFI in FossaPup, bigpup
recommended switching to BookwormPup64. So I deleted Fossapup from my laptop and downloaded the iso
for BookwormPup64. I then used Rufus to burn it to a USB stick. The Usb stick boots normally and
when I did some setup functions, the system detected my WIFI as soon as I gave it my WIFI name and
password. When I was satisfied I used DiskPup to frugal install BookwormPup64 to my sda6 EXT
partition.

My laptop has a basic MBR. sda1 is the 1.2 GB NTFS formatted system drive that is active and
bootable. sda2 is the 92 GB Windows 7 partition that is also NTFS formatted. sda4 is the 11.7
GB Lenovo Recovery partition. sda 5 is 1GB and is formatted EXT4 sda 6 is the 40 GB
BookwormPup64.10.0.4 partition and is formatted EXT4. sda7 is 32GB and is formatted FAT32. The
remaining 287.9 GB HDD space is unused.

When I try to boot BookWormPup64boot, I get the following:
BookwormPup64 10.0.4 Linux 6.1.67 x86_64
Copying 'puppy_dpupbw64_10.0.4.sfs' to ram... done
Loading the 'puppy_dpupbw64_10.0.4.sfs' main file ... mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /pup_ro2
failed: Invalid argument

Dumping last lines of /tmp/bootinit.log...
1: PDRV= P_BP_ID=F228E80D28E7CEA3 P_BP_FN=
2: ONE_PART=sda1 ONE_FN=/puppy_dpupbw64_10.0.4.sfs ONE_MP=/mnt/pdrv
6: ONE_PART=sda1 ONE_TRY_FN=/puppy_dpupbw64_10.0.4.sfs PDRV=sda1.ntfs./puppy_dpupbw64_10.0.4.sfs
fdisk: can't open '/dev/mmcblk0': No such file or directory
Dumping last lines of kernel log...
[ 3.480697] usb 1-1.5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 3.480703] usb 1-1.5: Product: Integrated Camera
[ 3.480716] usb 1-1.5: Manufacturer: Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.
[ 7.424954] loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 640984
Pausing for 60 seconds...
Loading puppy main sfs file. failed
*** sda1 /puppy_dpupbw64_10.0.4.sfs mount of sfs failed
*** Error is too critical. dropping out to console...
*** To save debug info to a partition, type 'debugsave'

I have one of these huge external usb storage drives. It has a huge ntfs first partition (where I have lots of data stored) and a very small ext3 second partition (which I originally created for Puppys but...). Took me half a day to get this thing to boot after installing Grub4Dos. In my case:

1. This machine will ONLY boot from this external drive off the first partition which is ntfs
2. My frugal puppys MUST be on this ntfs partition otherwise it won't boot (I get grub errors otherwise).
3. This thing is so fickle that I can't change anything in menu.lst afterwards (can't add more Puppys manually for example)
4. I get the same issue with Bookworm as this user. Get that same error (invalid...), Bookworm does not boot. I must conclude that Bookworm does not want to boot from ntfs partition on an external device (external hard drive in my case).

So generally, booting from an ntfs partition (external device) seems to be problematic. I have Bionic32 and Fossa96CE working on this setup. It does take longer to boot than I'm normally used to otherwise though.

paperboy1994 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:58 pm

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E520 11143AFU Laptop with 8GB Ram, 500 GB HDD..........

.....sda 6 is the 40 GB BookwormPup64.10.0.4 partition and is formatted EXT4.

*** sda1 /puppy_dpupbw64_10.0.4.sfs mount of sfs failed
*** Error is too critical. dropping out to console...
*** To save debug info to a partition, type 'debugsave'

your bookworm install folder is on sda6 and mount of sfs on sda1 failed....

could you run fdisk -l (ell as in list) and post the output?

also post your grub.cfg or menu.lst also...

what can you tell us about your bootloader? a new install or the previous how does it identify itstelf at the top of the boot menu?

I have this exact same error when I try too boot, when i get home ill post my stuff here so we might compare what's going on, see if it's the same issue.