Thanks, as you will have seen by now, I have the relevant Fossapup installed on a USB stick and it boots fine.
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- Sat Mar 26, 2022 1:03 pm
- Forum: Xenial
- Topic: Xenial fails to boot from USB stick in Dell G5 (solved)
- Replies: 2
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- Fri Mar 25, 2022 2:44 pm
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Bionic fails to boot from USB stick in HP G6 (Solved)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1757
Re: [SOLVED] Bionic fails to boot from USB stick in HP G6
@wizard, thanks. I appreciate puppy isn't Ubuntu or Redhat so it's good to find out how I can tidy it up to my liking.
@bigpup, thanks for your input. I've run slackware, Mandrake, later Mandriva, Redhat Ubuntu DSL and Mint. They are all different and in each case I set about getting it how I ...
@bigpup, thanks for your input. I've run slackware, Mandrake, later Mandriva, Redhat Ubuntu DSL and Mint. They are all different and in each case I set about getting it how I ...
- Fri Mar 25, 2022 9:43 am
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Bionic fails to boot from USB stick in HP G6 (Solved)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1757
Re: Bionic fails to boot from USB stick in HP G6
Okay guys, thanks for all the help.
I downloaded - Fossapup64 9.5 and Rosawriter. I ran it and told it to write to the USB stick I had Mint 20 on previously. Success at last. Certainly very fast on my Dell. Needs a lot of tidying up. Don't like that it shows Icons for all my discs and a few other ...
I downloaded - Fossapup64 9.5 and Rosawriter. I ran it and told it to write to the USB stick I had Mint 20 on previously. Success at last. Certainly very fast on my Dell. Needs a lot of tidying up. Don't like that it shows Icons for all my discs and a few other ...
- Thu Mar 24, 2022 10:41 pm
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Bionic fails to boot from USB stick in HP G6 (Solved)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1757
Re: Bionic fails to boot from USB stick in HP G6
Sorry but it looks like this won't work. I run Linux Mint 20 on 3 different laptops. All fairly new and without DVD drives. I don't have an external one hence would like to boot from USB stick.
I have tried dd, USB image writer and discs. No good with any of them. I tried the xenial 64 bit uefi and ...
I have tried dd, USB image writer and discs. No good with any of them. I tried the xenial 64 bit uefi and ...
- Thu Mar 24, 2022 5:03 pm
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Bionic fails to boot from USB stick in HP G6 (Solved)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1757
Bionic fails to boot from USB stick in HP G6 (Solved)
Hi, I decided to give Puppy a look at today.
Downloaded bionic uefi 32 bit. used dd to get it on a USB stick.
Tried booting on my HP G6- 16Gig Ram.
Got to boot menu and picked the first option but it hangs at an underscore character and no further response.
Only way out was pressing and holding the ...
Downloaded bionic uefi 32 bit. used dd to get it on a USB stick.
Tried booting on my HP G6- 16Gig Ram.
Got to boot menu and picked the first option but it hangs at an underscore character and no further response.
Only way out was pressing and holding the ...
- Thu Mar 24, 2022 4:57 pm
- Forum: Xenial
- Topic: Xenial fails to boot from USB stick in Dell G5 (solved)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1688
Xenial fails to boot from USB stick in Dell G5 (solved)
Hi, I decided to give Puppy a look at today.
Downloaded xeniel uefi 64 bit. used dd to get it on a USB stick.
Tried booting. it got to the point where it showed a line drawing of a pup and a bit of decoration on my Dell G5 - 32Gig Ram.
It just hung at that. Only way out was pressing and holding the ...
Downloaded xeniel uefi 64 bit. used dd to get it on a USB stick.
Tried booting. it got to the point where it showed a line drawing of a pup and a bit of decoration on my Dell G5 - 32Gig Ram.
It just hung at that. Only way out was pressing and holding the ...