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shinobar

vtpup wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 3:33 pm
The drive is GPT and Legacy boot is enabled in BIOS.

Your PC may boot up if the UEFI (not Legacy) Boot enabled.

The Grub2Config does not support Legacy Boot under GPT.
The document says:
MBR boot loader
Install boot loader so that legacy MBR bootable.
Disabled if the partition table is 'GPT'

shinobar

Trying to use Grub2config to setup a boot loader to boot Fossapup64 9.5 and Mint OS. Got this error message... See the top post in this topic: Only one case the Grub2config does not support: When you clean install Ubuntu Linux and/or derivatives on a legacy BIOS PC, the partition sda1 is ext4 forma...

shinobar

Download Grub2config and try from Live Puppy.
viewtopic.php?f=155&t=3360

shinobar

Clarity This is nice. But the usage of the Super Grub2 menu is to be shown at the top post of this thread. On that Super Grub2 menu. (your image of it) Select the entry at the top. Detect and show boot methods. It will search on all drives for what it finds for bootable OS installs. A new menu will...

shinobar

I AM curious about one thing, though. Why this determined insistence that Puppy must start to use GRUB2? Is it because you feel Puppy has become stuck in a rut? For myself, Grub4DOS does everything I need from it; Take a look my post: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=36246#p36246 Imagin...

shinobar

I have noticed that when it comes up, the standard GRUB2 menu appears for a split-second, then Shino's new Menu immediately appears. If you install boot loader using Grub2config on a legacy BIOS PC, boot up process is like this: grub.mbr --> /grldr --> /menu.lst --> /boot.pup/grub/i386-pc/core.img ...

shinobar

MADC1993 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 10:45 pm
I really want to find a way to disable automounting of my NTFS partitions on Precise.

Do you mean the drive icons at the bottom of the desktop?
If so, Main Menu > System > Puppy Event Manager
'ROX Icons' tab, check off 'Show desktop icons for each DRIVE'.

shinobar

bigpup wrote: ↑Fri Sep 10, 2021 9:39 pm
All computers seem to see the 1st fat32 partition as the boot partition.

@bigpup
You are mostly right regarding UEFI boot. It is more complex with legacy BIOS.

shinobar

Will Grub2config find all installed operating systems and make a boot menu entry for all? Yes. Grub2config supports filesystems listed on the document inclusing ext4(64bit). Only the case the 1st partition is ext4(32/64bit) formatted, Grub2config does not support. Grub2 supports ext4(64bit), but th...

shinobar

You figured out that the partition the ISO is on, has to first be mounted, so the Frugalinstaller can read from it. This is one common issue of Puppy Linux, not auto mounting drives. Frugalinstaller is not well documented, but it does not require to mount the .iso file. As I mentioned, wipe out the...

shinobar

I have downloaded frugal installer and get so far but I cannot get past loading the iso. It is determined to load xenial64 which is the os At the initial, Frugalinstaller is going to install the Puppy now running, but you can chnge Puppy to be installed. Ensure frugalinstaller is the recent version...

shinobar

@kylerickards
The sda5 partition seems a 'logical'. You can remove it and remake 'primary' partition as sda2, using GParted.
Putting it aside, the Mint is now running on your PC?
If so, no problem to continue next step, frugalinstaller and grub2config.

shinobar

If you want to clean install Ubuntu Linux and/or derivatives co-operative with Puppy Linux on legacy BIOS PC, read this article. If your PC uses UEFI, need not this article. See the top article of this topic. Make the first partition sda1 to be 512MB sized fat32 formatted and flagged 'boot'. Make th...

shinobar

Best solution is Grub2config: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?f=155&t=3360 Dual boot Puppy and windows, LICK runs on Windows is the easy way: https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=61404 When you install Ubuntu Linux or the derivatives, Ubuntu and Windows appears on ...

shinobar

... My question with regards to Grub4Dos: ... @amethyst You are right at this point of time. You can still use the Grub4Dos with legacy BIOS mode (CSM) if you carefully avoid its limitation. After 2012, Windows 8(64) pre-installed PC 's are shipped with UEFI/GPT system. They can switched to legacy ...

shinobar

I wonder why you include windows whether its found or not? I never have windows on my machine and never want it so i would prefer an option to just drop it.Then again I don't think I have a need/use for Grub4Dos then do I . Windows menu At least one item of Windows menu are displayed here no matter...

shinobar

if you like to manually make /boot/grub/custom.cfg like this: set timeout_style=menu set timeout=10 menuentry 'Puppy Linux' { set subdir=puppy search --no-floppy --file --set=root /$subdir/vmlinuz linux /$subdir/vmlinuz psubdir=$subdir pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck initrd /$subdir/initrd.gz } Where the Pup...

shinobar

Best solution is Grub2config. https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?f=155&t=3360 If you install Ubuntu Linux or the derivatives and want to install Puppy on the Ubuntu partition, only the solution is Grub2config. The Grub4Dos does not support recent linux'es ext4 partition with 64bit option...

shinobar

amethyst wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 4:38 am
Can someone attach an example of the grub2 configuration file for dual-boot with Windows please?

Install grub2 into a USB drive. The grub.cfg will be on the top level of the USB drive.
viewtopic.php?p=36042#p36042

shinobar

Jafadmin wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 4:12 pm
@shinobar, what happens if you install G2C on a thumbdrive but don't specify any disks that contain OS's? Will it go ahead and create a bootable blank grub.cfg?

Please try by yourself.

shinobar

Both USB sticks were in the laptop .Down in left corner I could see the sda sdb en sdc . During the install process there was the message that the sdc was not mounted. And I got the instruction to pull it out and back in to mount it again .No result . You can ask @gyrog at https://forum.puppylinux....

shinobar

Cairn wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 12:26 pm
Hi , StickPup did'nt work (lost its sdb ; no connection; not mounted )

Did you stick out your Live USB when running FrudalPup?
Keep your Live USB stick in and new USB in parallel.

shinobar

@Cairn
Easiest way is to Install Puppy on another USB drive. Fossapup has 'StickPup' can be found in the 'Setup' menu.
1. Boot from your Live USB.
2. Stick in a new USB drive.
3. Run 'StickPup'.
4. Select the source type 'this'.
5. Select the new ISB drive, and go on.

shinobar

Clarity wrote: ↑Sat Sep 04, 2021 12:20 am
~$ efibootmgr
EFI variables are not supported on this system.

Means BIOS boot, not UEFI. You cannot see what boot loader waked up the Puppy anyway.

shinobar

@number77 Try the Grub2config on a fat32 formatted USB drive to see it can run Win7, as Jafadmin said. Grub2config shows drive selection twice. First where to install boot loader, 2nd where to search. Install boot loader on the USB drive, Search the internal HDD. See the Grub2config document: http:/...

shinobar

I will extend your question to an additional one I have: After desktop arrival is that some log that tell which boot-loader was used by PUP to boot the PC? (since it will differ depending on which PC is used to boot (BIOS/UEFI32/UEFI64) Xenialpup 7.5 and later has a command 'efibootmgr' to see UEFI...

shinobar

Try the Grub2config.
viewtopic.php?f=155&t=3360

shinobar

@kylerickards, as Grey says, you need to re-install Mint with 'Erase Disk' option. As for installing Puppy, you can manually do and write /boot/grub/custom.cfg. But there may be another problem. Your Grub2 of Mint may not show the boot menu, that is 'hidden'. To show the boot menu, you need another ...

shinobar

JASpup wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 2:30 pm
Grub2config boots 64/UEFI which is an evolution over G4D.

Did you check on all the drives to search?

: grub2configSS2.png (27.11 KiB) Viewed 14259 times

See the document about options:
http://shinobar.server-on.net/puppy/doc ... ml#options

shinobar

JASpup wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 6:24 pm
2.0.1 installs and runs smoothly but still not booting. Suggestions?

Press [DEL],[F2] or the specific key which brings the PC to the BIOS settings. See the BIOS is recognizing the USB flash device or not.

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