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by jeffep
Sat Apr 27, 2024 3:19 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: Old computer won't boot after formatting hdd, installing Puppy
Replies: 6
Views: 393

Re: Old computer won't boot after formatting hdd, installing Puppy

Thanks for your input. I may have had a SATA problem or something. I downloaded Fedora install and while trying to install it I told bios to not consider the floppy drive as part of bootup, to get rid of a pesky 'floppy drive not found' error, press f1 to continue. I successfully installed the ...
by jeffep
Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:17 am
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: Old computer won't boot after formatting hdd, installing Puppy
Replies: 6
Views: 393

Re: Not reading MBR

Sorry about a mistake: I formatted the first 300mb as vfat - since puppy install only searched for vfat. The last 2.2gigs are ext4. Searching online shows at least one other person having problems installing on core duo. I set the first 300 for grub and grub.conf and copied the system on the second ...
by jeffep
Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:08 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: Old computer won't boot after formatting hdd, installing Puppy
Replies: 6
Views: 393

Old computer won't boot after formatting hdd, installing Puppy

Old computer based on Intel core duo 2. Installed Ubuntu successfully but would fail to boot and drop out into grub. Using DVD live boot in puppy, I Reformatted disk with first 300m as boot with ext4 and the rest a partition with ___ and loaded puppy in the boot area.. Bios does not have option to ...

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