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Thank you guys/gals for the fast answers and great ideas and things to try to make it work.

Finally I found what my issue was!! :)

None of the above worked in the end, but they where good diagnostic tests.
So the stanza's of rockedge showed me that the usb wasn't being loaded by the kernel.
I got ...

Tried that just now and it gives the same result.

*** fossapup64 9.5 - Linux 5.4.53 [x86_64] ***
Waiting for USB storage..... done
Finding puppy main sfs file. failed
Dumping last lines of /tmp/bootinit.log...
4: ONE_PART=sda1
4: ONE_PART=sda2
4: ONE_PART=sda3
6: ONE_PART=sda3 ONE_TRY_FN=/puppy ...

Yes it is bios.
I have to select the usb manually(F2 select boot device) because it boots in windows instantly, even though the boot order is usb first.
Grub4Dos is installed on the usb.

Removing the installed SSD from the boot options just gives me "no bootable device found". Even when the boot ...

Hi,

I'm trying to boot puppy Linux from a USB flash drive, 32Gb.
I downloaded the ISO from the official website (fossapup64-9.5.iso)

Got it running directly in a virtual machine (VMWare) with the ISO.
I used that to create a USB to boot on an older netbook.

I tried the following ways:

1) Using ...