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gyrog

JusGellin , It looks like grub2 is doing the right thing, but the Puppy 'init' script is failing. One more thing to check. Could you please post the contents of the 'grub.cfg' in the root of 'mmcblk1p1'. Those original error messages indicated that if couldn't find the "root" drive. And a...

gyrog

JusGellin , I missed your messaage while I was composing mine. Just to let you know I have just left it on with the blank display for more than 15 minutes when I stepped away. It was still in that state when I came back. OK, so not working yet. Loading vmlinuz Loading ucode.cpio and initrd.gz Do yo...

gyrog

JusGellin , Boot from USB. Note the UUID of '/dev/mmcblk1p2', using "blkid /dev/mmcblk1p2". Look at the 'grub.cfg' in the root of '/dev/mmcblk1p1'. Check that the UUID mentioned in the Bookworm64 entry is correct for '/dev/mmcblk1p2' Check the "linux" line for Bookworm64, and tr...

gyrog

bigpup Your advice is good, and we are used to it working on "normal" PC's. Unfortunately, this is not a "normal" PC. I have one of these, and I run Puppy on it, but from a Puppy perspective it's "the hardware from hell". It's "uefi/bios" is so minimilist, it...

gyrog

Boot0003* Puppy Linux - Grub2 HD(1,GPT,150145f9-7295-5041-a61c-733666a0818a,0x1000,0x96000)/File(\EFI\Puppy\bootia32.efi) looks good, over another hurdle. When I booted into the computer it now gives Puppy dpupbw64 selection in Grub menu. The first time I selected that it gave errors. - see attache...

gyrog

JusGellin , here's some commands that might work: efibootmgr -q -b 0003 -B efibootmgr -q -c -d /dev/mmcblk1 -p 1 -l "\EFI\Puppy\bootia32.efi" -L "Puppy Linux - Grub2" efibootmgr -v And please post the output from the last command. This should delete the boot entry that is wrong,...

gyrog

Boot0003* Puppy Linux - Grub2 HD(1,GPT,150145f9-7295-5041-a61c-733666a0818a,0x1000,0x96000)/File(\EFI\Puppy\bootx64.efi) And here is a problem, see the "File(\EFI\Puppy\bootx64.efi)" at the end of the line; "FrugalPup -> Boot" hasn't quite done the right thing, it's configured t...

gyrog

I ran frugal install on the Puppy Bookworm stick to create a folder on the second partition for all the files and the efi boot part to the first folder. It indicated it recognized the Lubuntu install and would adjust for it. Ok, it looks like "FrugalPup -> Boot" is trying to do the right ...

gyrog

About: This is the first implementation of a "Frugal Hybrid Install" or "fhi". Like my first implementation of "Frugal Full Install", this 'init_full_install' script uses an overlayfs as the '/' for the running Puppy. The upper (RW) layer is a directory containing the ...

gyrog

JusGellin , so the boot menu is empty. On my Lenovo, I still have Windows, and hence an existing ESP (fat32 partition contianing "/EFI" directory). I added Puppy grub2 as another boot to that ESP. So here's a crazy idea : Since you indicated that you could boot Lubuntu from the internal d...

gyrog

That's what I had done. The hard drive had a 300M partition as a Fat32 with flag boot and esp. The other partition had ext3 with the drive set as GPT. I install Bookworm to the Lenovo. When I tried to boot it, the Lenovo wouldn't recognize it to boot; even though the Lenovo could boot from the USB ...

gyrog

wizard wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 5:41 pm
Did you use GPT or MBR (msdos) partition table on the eMMC internal drive?

The internel eMMC drive has a GPT partition table.
That may be significant.

gyrog

trawglodyte , Thanks for your persistence. Just a couple of comments: 1) The whole pupmode=13 thing is more obscure than in needs to be, and that should change. 2) Ventoy does not play nicely with booting Puppy ISO files, I suggest you don't do it. ( It inserts a "pmedia=" line in the 'in...

gyrog

JusGellin , I also have a Lenovo Ideapad 100S, and I run Puppy Linux booting from it's internal SD. But I have not yet "wiped" Windows from it, so I have installed the Puppy Linux grub2 to the existing ESP partition, and done frugal Puppy Linux installs to the main ntfs partition on the i...

gyrog

Can you explain more which distros had problems that were fixed with 2.06? No, unfortunately I can't remember. do you have a example grub2 grub.cfg stanza that works well? Here is a grub2 boot entry that works for me for ISO files that support 'loopback.cfg': menuentry "BookwormPup64_10.0.3.is...

gyrog

When I use FrugalPup Installer from BookwormPup64_10.0.4 to write to the EFI. The grub.cfg it creates always has <pmedia=usbflash> which is specified by me in the Settings. How do you do this? I'm guessing that you edit the "kernel boot parameters" line in "FrugalPup -> Settings"...

gyrog

When you add additional Pups you do the Settings and Puppy part of FrugalPup Installer to copy the files from the iso to a new folder on your usb or hard drive partition. but you DON'T do the Boot part. You DO NOT write anything to the EFI partition. Instead, you go back to BookwormPup64_10.0.4 and...

gyrog

'ffi_files-01.tar' has been replaced by 'ffi_files-02.tar'. It contains all the same files, except for 2 changes: 'ffiInstallSfs' now honours any symbolic links to directories, in the destination. The old version made a nice mess if you installed a normal kernel-kit kernel to a usrmerge Puppy. 'loca...

gyrog

Are adv .sfs and fdrv .sfs hooked up to the package manager or are they static or can it be either way? I'm not completely clear on the exact meaning of your question. But: In a "Frugal Full Install" files from all Puppy ".sfs" files are extracted into the ${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}r...

gyrog

A couple of extra thoughts: If a "savefile" technology was used instead the current "savefolder" technology, to contain the "root" filesystem, there could be a "frugal full install" in a large sparse file on ntfs. I could produce, what I would call a "hyb...

gyrog

About: I gather that my "Frugal Full Install" is not the same as "Pseudo Full Install". With this new version the difference probably becomes a little more obvious. I will revert to referring to it as "Frugal Full Install" or "ffi". This release implements &q...

gyrog

This is my frugal install directory, after installing my 'pfi' directory on a fat32 parition using FrugalPup.

: frugal.png (39.19 KiB) Viewed 1073 times

'dpupbw64save66.tar.gz' is 1.3MiB, 'puppy_dpupbw64_10.0.4.sfs' is 589.1MiB.
It runs fine.

gyrog

From your most recent test, it seems that you are including the firmware in the puppy.sfs. If your arrangement could be tweaked like KL so that the firmware and modules are separate sfs layers, then this would still allow the flexibility to swap kernels and/or firmware in and out of the install, wh...

gyrog

The 'init' script does not care about the contents of the various ?drv's, the names define only the order that they appear in the stack.
It's only limitation is that there must be a 'puppy_....sfs' file (no matter what it contains), all the others are optional.

gyrog

I just did a test with "dpup Bookwork64": I installed it as a "Pseudo Full Install" using the method I outlined previously. I then removed firefox by deleting all the files listed in '/var/packages/builtin_files/firefox'. (Should be able to write a script to delete the listed fil...

gyrog

So if I install a Puppy as a "Pseudo Full Install", uninstall any software I will never use, and install the software I do use, that is not included in the release, and then produce a frugal install from it via 'pfiSfs', I will end up with a frugal install with all my software in the singl...

gyrog

Re: the 'init' script. I agree, Puppy could use a new 'init' script. But one without any "searching" at all. You know the location when you install it. You know the location when you boot it. So, why should 'init' have to "guess". There should be a boot parameter to define the pa...

gyrog

This is the release of a utility to setup a 'puppy_....sfs' from a "Pseudo Full Install". It is supposed to be useful to create a "re-mastered" Puppy, by directly modifying a "Pseudo Full Install", and then running this script. Similarly, use the native package manager ...

gyrog

@rockedge, thanks for testing.

gyrog

Unfortunately, I have to concur with Oz on this one. I know folks who have done this, and at a personal, individual, one-off level, it can be done (with a lot of patience). Interresting. Virtually limitless "?drv" sfs files has been done at least twice before, https://forum.puppylinux.com...

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