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by Stauro
Sat Nov 20, 2021 12:18 am
Forum: Slacko
Topic: Slacko 7 32-bit boot failure
Replies: 21
Views: 3728

Re: Slacko 7 32-bit boot failure

mikeslr :
Thanks for your two long posts, full of suggestions and information.
I cannot answer at length right now, but I have already re-checked the MD5 of the ISO file I burned from. Its good.
Perhaps it did not burn cleanly to the CD-RW? However, I also tried installing from a USB stick, with ...
by Stauro
Fri Nov 19, 2021 8:52 pm
Forum: Slacko
Topic: Slacko 7 32-bit boot failure
Replies: 21
Views: 3728

Re: Slacko 7 32-bit boot failure

rcrsn51 wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 1:17 pm

Your discussion about renaming files between upper/lower case does not apply here.

rcrsn51: Thanks for trying to set me straight, but the case of the names of the marker files on disk also had to be changed, not just the menu.lst entries.

Stauro

by Stauro
Fri Nov 19, 2021 8:43 pm
Forum: Slacko
Topic: Slacko 7 32-bit boot failure
Replies: 21
Views: 3728

Re: Slacko 7 32-bit boot failure

rcrsn51 and mikeslr:
As suggested, I made all the case changes to the menu.lst file, and to all the atahd marker files on disk.
Somewhat surprisingly, it made no difference whatsoever.

Stauro

by Stauro
Fri Nov 19, 2021 8:22 pm
Forum: Slacko
Topic: Slacko 7 32-bit boot failure
Replies: 21
Views: 3728

Re: Slacko 7 32-bit boot failure

Thanks for staying on this, BigPup.
YES, the Slacko 7 boot pauses at the 60-second wait prompt because it cannot mount something or cannot find something. If I wait the 60 seconds, it has either (1)hung and cannot proceed or accept CLI commands, OR (2) it tries to continue and fails, with a message ...
by Stauro
Fri Nov 19, 2021 9:19 am
Forum: Slacko
Topic: Slacko 7 32-bit boot failure
Replies: 21
Views: 3728

Re: Slacko 7 32-bit boot failure


Hello Wiz57 . Thanks for this.
You wrote:
I boot multiple Puppies using grub4dos, as well as Windows XP, on this old netbook. All Puppies are
frugal installs into a directory on the C: drive, WinXP resides there as well, primary bootup is controlled
by boot.ini (from Windows XP). The main ...
by Stauro
Fri Nov 19, 2021 8:33 am
Forum: Slacko
Topic: Slacko 7 32-bit boot failure
Replies: 21
Views: 3728

Re: Slacko 7 32-bit boot failure



Greetings mikeslr. Thanks for your input.

You wrote:
The pmedia= argument is frequently not necessary. AFAIK, it's a 'helper' when Puppy has some difficulty locating the folder in which the frugal system files are located. Linux, however, is case-sensitive. When used, I've always seen it as ...
by Stauro
Thu Nov 18, 2021 9:45 pm
Forum: Slacko
Topic: Slacko 7 32-bit boot failure
Replies: 21
Views: 3728

Re: Slacko 7 32-bit boot failure

is /SlackPup7/ correct?
or is /SlackoPup7/ correct?
Thanks for asking, williams2 .

That's certainly a kind of error that I have made before, but in this case...
...The correct PATH to the frugal files is /SlackPup7/ , and
"SlackoPup7" is just the label (title) I used in the menu. I just double ...
by Stauro
Thu Nov 18, 2021 6:28 pm
Forum: Slacko
Topic: Slacko 7 32-bit boot failure
Replies: 21
Views: 3728

Re: Slacko 7 32-bit boot failure

BigPup: Thanks for your response.
You wrote "Most of the newer versions of Puppy boot processes will only look 2 layers deep for the Puppy files."
I don't think the problem is that its too many folders deep. I moved the frugal installation up out of sda1/Puppies/SlackoPup7 to sda1/SlackoPup7 and the ...
by Stauro
Sat Nov 13, 2021 5:17 am
Forum: Slacko
Topic: Slacko 7 32-bit boot failure
Replies: 21
Views: 3728

Slacko 7 32-bit boot failure

Greetings, I am a new member.
I could not find an answer to my problem in previous posts, so I am hoping someone here can help me solve it.
I am having trouble getting Slacko Pup 7 (32-bit) to boot after installing it to the HD. I had wanted to install it as multi-booting with other distros and ...

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